In the Year 1724 Mr. _Savage_ wrote his Tragedy of _Sir Thomas Overbury_, which was acted at the _Theatre Royal_ in _Drury-Lane_, and dedicated to _Herbert Tryst_, of the City of _Hereford_, Esq; In this Play he perform'd the principal Part himself, with much Applause: In an Advertisement to the Reader, printed before it, he acknowledges the Obligations he had to his best and dearest Friend, as he there calls him, Mr. _Aaron Hill_, for his many judicious Corrections in it. The _Prologue_ and _Epilogue_ were both wrote by that Gentleman; in the former are these Lines concerning the _Author_. _In a full_ World, _our Author lives_, alone! Unhappy--_and, of Consequence_ unknown; _Yet, amidst Sorrow, he disdains Complaint;_ _Nor, languid, in the Race of Life, grows faint._ _He swims, unyielding_, against _Fortune's Stream_, _Nor, to his_ private Sufferings, _stoops his_ Theme: _Adopts the Pains, which others undergo_; _And for_ your Pleasure, _feels not his_ own Woe. The next Year he was perswaded by his Friends to publish his _Poems_ by Subscription, but not being enough in Number to make a compleat Volume, he was favoured with those of several other Gentlemen, among which, Mr. _Hill_ has the largest Share. And the Author of a Paper which came out at that Time, call'd the _Plain Dealer_, recommended his Undertaking in a very handsome Manner, to the Publick: In which, speaking of him, he says, Perhaps few Things could be more surprizing than an History of his Birth and Usage! Of two Fathers, whom he might have claim'd, and _both_ of them _Noble_, he lost the _Title_ of the _one_, and a Provision from the _other's_ Pity, by the Means alone of his _Mother_! Who, as if she had resolv'd not to leave him a single Comfort, afterwards robb'd him of _herself_ too! And in direct Opposition to the Impulse of her natural Compassion, upon mistaken Notions of a false Delicacy, shut her Memory against his Wants, and cast him out to the severest Miseries; without allowing herself to contribute even such small Aid, as might at least have preserved him from Anguish, and pointed out some Path to his future Industry.