Heu! miserande senex! jam frigida tempora circùm Marcessit laurus, musæ, mæstissima turba! Circumstant, largoque humeclant imbre cadaver; Sheffeildum video, in lacrymis multoque dolore Formosum, ætatis Flaccum, vatisque patronum; Te Montacute, te, cujus musa triumphos Carmine Boynæos cucinit, magnumque Wilhelmum Æternavit, et olim Boynam, ignobile flumen; Teque, O! et legum et musarum gloria! et alter Mæcenas; cui lingua olim facunda labantem Defendit mitræ causam; nee teruit aula Prava jubens--vos, O jam tanguni funera vatis! Jamque dies aderat, magnâ stipante catervâ, Quo Phoebea cohors facras comitatur ad urnam Reliquias, et supremum pia solvit honorem; Jamque graves planctus, jamque illaetabile murmur Audio Melpomenis latè, dum noster Apollo Flebilis ante omnes, Sacvillus, tristia ducit Agmina Pieridum, Cytharamqueaccommodatodæ; Ipse ego, dum totidem comitentur funera musæ, Ipse sequor mæstus; bustum venerabile fletu Carminibufque struam multis, animumque poetæ His faltem donis cumulabo, et fungar inani Munere.---- At te musa mori vetat, O post sata, vel ipsa Marmora, cum annorum fuerint rubigine scabra; Major eris vivo; tibi scripta perennius ære Aut faxo, condent monumentum illustre per orbem, Secula cuncta legant, et te mirentur in illis. JOHAN. PHILIPS, 1700. Ætat. 24. Interioris templi alumnus. The above were thrown in Dryden's grave. We are assured they were never in print before. [Footnote 1: Athen. Oxon.] [Footnote 2: He might have added, 'twas unnatural.] [Footnote 3: Defence, or the Essay on Dramatic Poetry.] [Footnote 4: Original Poems.] [Footnote 5: This was written before Mr. Dodsley's edition of Virgil in English appeared.] [Footnote 6: Essay on Criticism.] [Footnote 7: Life of Congreve.] [Footnote 8: In Millar's edition of the bishop's work, we have the following note upon this passage. 'This (says the editor) must be understood of his performances for the stage; for as to his personal character, there was nothing remarkably vicious in it: but his plays are, some of them, the fullest of obscenity of any now extant.'] * * * * * Sir CHARLES SEDLEY, Bart. This gentleman, who obtained a great name in the world of gallantry, was son of Sir John Sedley, of Aylesford in Kent. When our author was about the age of 17, he became a fellow of Wadham college 1656, but he took no degree. When he quitted the university, he retired into his own country, and neither went to travel nor to the inns of court. As soon as the restoration was effected, Sir Charles came to London, in order to join in the general jubilee, and then commenced wit, courtier, poet, and gallant.