While Young, who, in his Love of Fame, complains grievoufly how often dedications wash an Ethiopian white, was painting an amiable Duke of Wharton in perishable profe, Pope was perhaps beginning to defcribe the fcorn and wonder of his days in lafting verfe.

To the patronage of fuch a character, had Young ftudied men as much as Pope, he would have known how little to have trufted. Young, however, was certainly indebted to it for fomething material; and his Grace's regard for Young, added to his Luft of Praife, procured to All-fouls College a donation, which is not forgotten by the Dedication of The Revenge.

It will furprize you to fee me cite fecond Atkins, Cafe 136, Stiles verfus the Attor

Attorney General, 14 March 1740, as

authority for the Life of a Poet. But biographers do not always find fuch certain guides as the oaths of thofe they record. Chancellor Hardwicke was to determine whether two annuities granted by the Duke of Wharton to Young were for legal confiderations. The first was dated the 24th of March, 1719, and accounted for his Grace's bounty in a ftile princely and commendable, if not legal— "confidering that the publick good. is "advanced by the encouragement of "learning and the polite arts, and being "pleased therein with the attempts of "Dr. Young, in confideration thereof, "and of the love he bare him, &c." The fecond was dated the 10th of July, 1722. Young, on his examination, swore

that

that he quitted the Exeter family, and refused an annuity of 100l. which had been offered him for his life, if he would continue tutor to Lord Burleigh, upon the preffing folicitations of the Duke of Wharton, and his Grace's affurances of providing for him in a much more ample manner. It also appeared that the Duke had given him a bond for 600l. dated the 15th of March, 1721, in confideration of his taking feveral journies, and being at great expences, in order to be chofen member of the House of Commons at the Duke's defire, and in confideration of his not taking two livings of 200l. and 400 l. in the gift of All-foul's College, on his Grace's promifes of Erving and advancing him in the world.

This attempt to get into Parliament was at Cirencester, where Young stood a contefted election. His Grace difcovered in him talents for Oratory as well as for poetry. Nor was this judgement wrong. Young, after he took orders, became a very popular preacher, and was much followed for the grace and animation of his delivery. By his oratorical talents he was once in his life, according to the Biographia, deferted. As he was preaching in his turn at St. James's, he plainly perceived it was out of his power to command the attention of his audience. This fo affected the feelings of the preacher, that he fat back in the pulpit, and burst into tears. But to pursue his poetical life.

In 1719 he lamented the death of Addifon, in a Letter addreffed to their

common friend Tickell. For the fecret

hiftory of the following lines, if they contain any, it is now vain to feek:

In joy once join'd, in forrow, now, for years

Partner in grief, and brother of my tears,

Tickell, accept this verfe, thy mournful due.

In 1719 appeared a Paraphrafe on Part of the Book of Job. Parker, to whom it is dedicated, had not long, by means of the feals, been qualified for a patron. Of this work the author's opinion may be gathered from his Letter to Curll: "You feem, in the Col"lection you propofe, to have omitted "what I think may claim the first place "in it; I mean a Tranflation from Part