The Queen was foon called away from this lower world, to a place where human praise or human flattery are of little confequence. If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth, he fhould not have omitted it in his works. Was he conscious of the exaggeration of party? Then he should not have written it. The poem itself is not without a glance to politicks, notwithftanding the fubject. The cry that the church was in danger, had not yet fubfided. The Lal Day, written by a layman, was much approved by the miniftry and their friends.

Before the Queen's death, The Force of Religion, or Vanquished Love, was fent into the world. This poem is founded

on the execution of lady Jane Gray and her husband lord Guilford in 1554-a ftory chofen for the fubject of a tragedy by Edmund Smith, and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe. The dedication of it to the countefs of Salisbury does not appear in his own edition. He hopes it may be fome excufe for his prefumption that the story could not have been read without thoughts of the Countess of Salisbury, though it had been dedicated to another. "To behold," he proceeds, "a perfon only virtuous, ftirs in us a "prudent regret; to behold a perfon

only amiable to the fight, warms us "with a religious indignation; but to "turn our eyes on a Countess of Salif"bury, gives us pleasure and improveB 3

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66 ment; it works a fort of miracle, oc"cafions the biafs of our nature to fall "off from fin, and makes our very "fenfes and affections converts to our

religion, and promoters of our duty."

His flattery was as ready for the other fex as for ours, and was at least as well adapted.

Auguft the 27th, 1714, Pope writes to his friend Jervas, that he is just arrived from Oxford-that every one was much concerned for the Queen's death, but that no panegyricks were ready yet for the King. Nothing like friendship had yet taken place between Pope and Young; for, foon after the event which Pope mentions, Young published a poem on the late Queen's death, and his Ma

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jefty's acceffion to the throne. It is infcribed to Addifon, then fecretary to the Lords Juftices. Whatever was the obligation which he had formerly received from Anne, the poet appears to aim at fomething of the fame fort from George. Of the poem the intention feems to have been, to fhew that he had the fame extravagant strain of praise for a King as for a Queen. To discover, at the very outfet of a foreigner's reign, that the Gods blefs his new fubjects in fuch a King, is fomething more than praife. Neither was this deemed one of his excufeable pieces. We do not find it in his works.

Young's father had been well acquainted with Lady Anne Wharton, the first wife

of Thomas Wharton, Efq; afterwards Marquis of Wharton-a Lady celebrated for her poetical talents by Burnet and by Waller. To the Dean of Sarum's vifitation fermon, already mentioned, were added fome copies of verfes "by that "excellent poetefs Mrs. Anne Wharton," upon its being tranflated into English, at the inftance of Waller, by Atwood. Wharton, after he became ennobled, did not drop the fon of his old friend. In him, during the short time he lived, Young found a patron, and in his diffolute defcendant a friend and a companion. The Marquis died in April 1715. The beginning of the next year the young Marquis fet out upon his travels, from which he returned in about a twelve