In all Charles's days Roscommon only boasts unspotted bays. He translated from Virgil, Lucan, Horace, and Guarini; wrote prologues, epilogues, and other occasional verses; but is now principally remembered for his poetical _Essay on Translated Verse_ (1681), in which he develops principles previously laid down by Cowley and Denham. To his credit be it said, he condemns indecency, both as want of sense and bad taste. He was honored with a funeral in Westminster Abbey. Johnson records that, at the moment of his death, Roscommon uttered with great energy and devotion the following two lines from his own translation of the _Dies Irae_: My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me in my end! Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the founders of the Royal Society (1662), was son of the "great" Earl of Cork and was born at Lismore, Co. Waterford. He takes rank among the principal experimental philosophers of his age, and he certainly rendered valuable services to the advancement of science. Most of his writings, which are very voluminous, are naturally of a technical character and therefore do not properly belong to literature; but his _Occasional Reflections on Several Subjects_ (1665), a strange mixture of triviality and seriousness, was germinal in this sense that it led to two celebrated _jeux d'esprit_, namely, Butler's _Occasional Reflection on Dr. Charlton's feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College_ and Swift's _Pious Meditation upon a Broomstick, in the Style of the Honourable Mr. Boyle_. Indeed, one of Boyle's _Reflections_, that "Upon the Eating of Oysters", is reputed to have rendered a still more signal service to literature, for in its two concluding paragraphs is contained the idea which, under the transforming hand of the master satirist, eventually took the world by storm when it appeared, fully developed, as _Gulliver's Travels_.