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Rh afforded him in his affairs, which being greatly encumbered, she by her powerful interest with Sir Charles Cotterel, and other great friends, by her good sense, and excellent management, in a great measure, extricated him out of the embarrassments in which he was involved.

As she had naturally a poetical genius, she composed many poems on various occasions, in her recess at Cardigan, and elsewhere, which being dispersed among her friends and acquaintance, were collected together by an unknown hand, and published in 8 vo. in 1663. This ungenerous treatment affected her so much that it gave her a severe fit of illness. Her remarkable humility, good-nature, and agreeable conversation greatly endeared her to all her acquaintance; and her polite and elegant writings procured her the friendship and correspondence of many learned and eminent men; and on her going to Ireland with the viscountess Dungannon, to transact her husband's affairs there, her great merit soon recommended her to the regard of those illustrious peers, Ormond, Orrery, Roscommon, and many other persons of distinction, who shewed her singular marks of esteem; and at the pressing instances of those noblemen, particularly lord Roscommon, she translated from the French of Corneille, into English, the tragedy of Pompey, which was acted on the Irish stage several times with great applause in the years 1663 and 64. It was likewise afterwards acted very successful at the duke of York's theatre, 1678.

She likewise translated from the French of Corneille, the tragedy of Horace. Sir John Denham added a fifth act to the play, which was represented at the court by persons of quality.

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