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 entirely one of inclination, she appears to have enjoyed the utmost domestic happiness. By her first husband, the Earl of Suffolk, she had one son, who succeeded his father as tenth earl, and was the last of his branch. Lady Suffolk died in 1767, surviving both her son and Mr. Berkley. Her sweetness of disposition and equanimity of mind appear to have furnished her with a cheerful and pleasant existence, though she was afflicted with many constitutional infirmities. She had been troubled with deafness at the most brilliant period of her life. Living in the neighbourhood of Twickenham, she saw a great deal of Pope; and in her latter years maintained a close intimacy with Horace Walpole. Her correspondence, published in 1824, shows the very high estimation in which she was held by all the illustrious, the noble, and the literary characters of consequence who lived at that time. Swift, Chesterfield, the great Lord Chatham, Gay; in short, a list of her friends would be but a list of the great men of England in the reign of George the Second.

Horace Walpole, in his reminiscences, speaks of her remarkable beauty, which never entirely deserted her, even in old age showing its traces; he commends her amiable disposition and prudence in the same work.

SULPITIA, poetess, who lived in the reign of Domitian, in the first century after Christ. She has been called the Roman Sappho. There are none of her writings left but a fragment of a satire against Domitian, who published a decree for the banishment of the philosophers from Rome. This satire has usually been printed at the end of the Satires of Juvenal, to whom it has been sometimes falsely attributed. From the invocation, it would seem that she was the author of many other poems, and the first Roman lady who taught her sex to vie with the Greeks in poetry. Her language is easy and elegant, and she appears to have had a ready talent for satire. She is mentioned by Martial and Sidonius Apollinaris, and is said to have addressed to her husband Calenus, who was a Roman knight, "A Poem on Conjugal Love." The thirty-fifth epigram in Martial's tenth book refers to her poem on conjugal love.

SURVILLE, MARGUERITE ELEONORE CLOTILDE DE,

the noble family of Vallon Chalys, was the wife of Berenget de Surville, and lived in those disastrous times which immediately succeeded the battle of Agincourt. She was born in 1405, and educated in the court of the Count de Foix, where she gave an early proof of literary and poetical talent, by translating, when eleven years old, one of Petrarch's Canzoni, with a harmony of style wonderful, not only for her age, but for the time in which she lived. At the age of sixteen, she married the Chevalier de Surville, then, like herself, in the bloom of youth, and to whom she was passionately attached. In those days no man of high standing, who had a feeling for the misery of his country, or a hearth and home to defend, could avoid taking an active part in the scenes of barbarous strife around him; and De Surville, shortly after his marriage, followed his heroic sovereign, Charles the Seventh, to the field. During his absence, his wife addressed to him the 