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"Mr. Walpole and I have frequently wondered you should never mention a certain imitation of Spenser published last year by a namesake of yours with which we are all enraptured and enmarvailed."

105-66. The institution of the order of the Garter, a dramatic poem.

The last two poems are by Gilbert West ('D.N.B.'). Walpole says that his mother was by her first marriage Lady Langham, and by her second marriage the wife of West, a clergyman. She was the eldest sister of Richard, Lord Cobham, who was so offended by her marrying a parson that he settled his estate on the issue of his second sister, afterwards Countess Temple.

166-85. Epistle to Viscount Cornbury. By R. Nugent, afterwards Earl Nugent ('D.N.B.'). 185-98. An epistle. 198-205. An epistle to a lady.

Walpole says that Aurelia was

" Mrs. A. Pitt, sister maid of honour to Quee

" Mrs. A. Pitt, sister of the great Lord Chatham, aid of honour to Queen Caroline, and privy purse to Augusta, Princess of Wales. Died in 1781."

She was very clever, but eccentric, and swore a great deal. " Gentle Anna " was " Lady Albemarle, Lady Anna Lenox." The " peerless dame " was the Duchess of Norfolk, Mary Blount. " Altho' in - combine " was the " Countess of Cardigan, afterwards Duchess of Montagu."

205-7. An epistle to Mr. Pope. 207-10. Epistle to Pollio [Lord Chesterfield] from the Hills of Howth.

S 's shape and R 's face refer to Lady Fanny Shirley and Sarah Cadogan, Duchess of Richmond. " To mock the works of Kent " alludes to the designer of modern gardening. " Poor with all a H t's store," i.e., Sir Gilbert Heathcote ('D.N.B.').

210-12. An ode to Wm. Pultney, Esq. Published anonymously in 1739.

The opening stanza, " Remote from liberty and truth," &c., referring to Nugent's educa- tion as a Roman Catholic, and part of the seventh, " Though Cato liv'd though Tully spoke," are proverbial. Gray (' Letters',' i. 184) says, " Mr. Nugent sure did not write his own ode," and he was suspected of paying Mallet to write it. Walpole's comment on the last stanza, which relates to Pulteney and concludes with " shall tell the patriot's name," is, " Both the poet and the patriot turned courtiers."

213-15. Ode to Lord Lonsdale.

215-19. Three odes.

220-28. Ode to mankind address'd to the Prince, with introduction to the Prince.

228-30. Verses to Camilla.

230-33. To Clarissa.

This piece is stated in Gent. Mag., 1780

3. 122, to be " a disgrace to this collection " ; it was, however, retained in the 1782 edition,

234. An inscription on the tomb to his father and ancestors. 234-9. Epigrams.

All the above are by Nugent.

240-50. The danger of writing verse, by William Whitehead, esq. ('D.N.B.').

' A very good thing " (Shenstone, ' Letters,' p. 15).

251-3. To the honourable [Charles Townshend r

ane of his friends at Cambridge].

253-7. To Mr. Garrick.

257-8. Nature to Dr. Hoadly, on his comedy of ' The Suspicious Husband.'

259-60. The youth and the philosopher, a fable.

261-3. An ode to a gentleman, on his pitching a tent in his garden.

263-5. On a message card in verse, sent by a lady.

265-6. The je ne ncai quoy, a song. Also printed in The Museum, i. 131.

The above are also by Whitehead. Gray (' Letters,' i. 184) says :

"I like Mr. Whitehead's little poems, I mean the ode on a tent, the verses to Garrick, and par- ticularly those to Charles Townshend, better than anything I had seen before of him."

266-9. Ode on a distant prospect of Eton college,, by Mr. Gray ('D.N.B.').

270-72. Ode [on the spring].

272-4. Ode on the death of a favourite cat (Horace Walpole's) drowned in a tub of gold fishes. The last two are also by Gray. These pieces were given to Dodsley by Walpole.

274-9. Monody on the death of Queen Caroline, by Richard West, esq. ('D.N.B.'), son to the chancellor of Ireland.

It was included in the collection at Walpole's request. Gray (' Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 173) says this piece, " in spite of the subject," is excellent. Some of the lines in it con- tained the germs of Gray's own poetry.

280-86. A pipe of tobacco in imitation of six several authors : I. Gibber. II. Ambrose Philips. III. Thomson. IV. Young. V. Pope. VI. Swift. By Isaac Hawkins Browne, but the sugges- tion of the poem was made by (Chancellor) John Hoadly, and No. II. was written by him (Gent. Mag., 1776, p. 165).

287-9. Ode to the hon. C. Y. [Charles Yorkel.

289-91. From C*elia to Chloe.

291-3. On a fit of the gout.

293. Horace, ode xiv. book i., imitated in 1746. The last four are also by Browne.

294-300. The female right to literature, in a letter to a young lady from Florence [Miss Pratt, after- wards Lady Camden]. By Thomas Seward, Canon of LichfieloM' D.N.B.').

300. On Shakespear's monument at Stratford upon Avon.

301. Song.

302. Chiswick. The "potent lord" was Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington.