his powers, when he left the univerfity he enlifted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was engaged, among other popular names, in the tranflations of Ovid and Juvenal. In his Review, though unfinished, are fome vigorous lines. His poems are not below mediocrity; nor have I found much in them to be praised.

With the wit he seems to have shared the diffolutenefs of the times; for fome of his compofitions are fuch as he must have reviewed with deteftation in his later days, when he published thofe Sermons which Felton has commended..

Perhaps, like fome other foolish young men, he rather talked than

lived viciously, in an age when he that would be thought a wit was afraid

to fay his prayers; and whatever might have been the first part of his life, it was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgement.

In 1683, being then mafter of arts, and fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, he wrote a poem on the mar riage of the Lady Anne with George Prince of Denmark.

He took orders; and being made prebendary of Gloucefter, became a proctor in convocation for that church, and chaplain to Queen Anne.

In 1710, he was prefented by the bishop of Winchester to the wealthy living of Witney in Oxfordshire, which

he

he enjoyed but a few months. On Fe bruary 10, 1710-11, having returned from an entertainment, he was found dead the next morning. His death is mentioned in Swift's Journal.

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F the Earl of Derfet the charac

ter has been drawn. fo largely and fo elegantly by Prior, to whom he was familiarly known, that nothing can be added by a casual hand; and, as it will appear in the fubfequent volumes of this collection, it would be ufeless officiousness to transcribe it.

Charles Sackville was born January 24, 1637. Having been educated under a private tutor, he travelled into

Italy, and returned a little before the Reftoration. He was chofen into the first parliament that was called, for East Grinstead in Suffex, and foon became a favourite of Charles the Second; but undertook no publick employment, being too eager of the riotous and licentious pleasures which young men of high rank, who afpired to be thought wits, at that time imagined themselves intitled to indulge.

One of thefe frolicks has, by the induftry of Wood, come down to posterity. Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock in Bow-street by Covent-garden, and, going into the balcony, expofed them