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 ALSO P. i3r " /Efopicarum Deleitus, Oxon. 1698," 8vo. with a po~- tical dedication to Lord Vifcount Scudamore, and a preface in which he took part a^ninft Dr. Ucntley in the famous dif- pute wrh Mr. Boyle. He p;ified through the ufu .! < llices in his College to that of Cenfbr, with coi.fider.iblc reputation ; and for (omr: years had the principal noblemen and gentlemen belonging to the fociety committed to his care. In this ufcful empljyn ; nt he continued till his merit recommended him to firjonathoii liclawncy, Bifaop of Winchefter, whoappointcd him his crriplam, and foon after gave him a prebend in his own cathedral, together with the rectory of Bright well, in the county of Berks, which afforded him ample provifion for a learned retirement, from which he could not be drawn by the repeated folicitations of thofe who thought him qualified for a more public character and a higher ftation. In the year 1717 an action was brought agaiuft him by Mrs. Elizabeth Audrey of Oxford, fora breach of a marriage contract; and a verdict obtained againft him for 2000). which probably occafioned him to leae the kingdom for fome time [A]. How long this exile lafted is unknown ; but his death happened, June 10, 1726, and was occafioned by his falling into a ditch that led to his garden-door, the path being narrow, and part of it giving way. A quarto volume of his was pub- liihed in 1752, by the lat* Sir Francis Bernard, under the title of " Antourii Alfopi, /Edis Chrifti olim Alumni, Odaruni c< libri duo." Four Kngiifli poems of his are in Dodfiey's Collection, one in Pearch's, feveral in the early volumes of [A] In an Ode to Dr, Keill, on tHt ftanzas are fomewhat derang,eu in " T'.i '6 marringe, ot' which the " StuJcnt," he (.'y, " I, who, hard fa f e ! am forc'd to rove " True to my nuptial xmvs, " Anii icave rr/v coi.mry out of love, " An fxile for rny ipojle : " Fain wo'.ild J h:-ar the jcfts that psfs, " The mirth thai's made on rr.c ; " Fain would partake th? circ! ng " And vent n.y v;'. on thee. " Biit I, by Heaven't. Atcnf, re '' Bleft on a f'.'rcifn iiote, " And hourly loch .v ', lf ain, " I n.-ed not wifh for more. ' Me a kind wife's rmbrjces fhfar, ' A loely treaturr (he ; " Nor can the fun fin>i out a pair ' More hap'ly joiu'd than w?.'* N 3