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his " dear boy " dated 21 June, O.S., 1748, Lord Chesterfield writes : " I condole with you for the untimely and violent death of the tuneful Matzel."

245-6. Martialis epigramma, lib. vi. 34 imitated. By the same.

At this point a poem called ' A Little Wish ' is printed in vol. iv. (ed. 1755) pp. 250-52.

246-51. The progress of discontent, a poem written at Oxford in 1746. By Thomas Warton. First appeared in ' The Student,' i. 235-8 (1750).

251-4. The fireside. By Dr. Cotton (' D.N.B.').

255-6. To-morrow.

256-7. On Lord Cobham's gardens.

257. To a child of five years old.

The last three pieces are also by Dr. Nathaniel Cotton. Jc hn Dyer, author of * Grongar Hill,' writing to Mr. Duncombe, says :

"Pray who is Dr. Cotton (in Dodsley's 'Miscel- lanies')? There is good sense in his 'Fireside'; and his 'To-morrow' in imitation of Shakespear is excellent." 'Letters,' ed. John Duncombe, 1773, iii. 71.

258-9. Father Francis's prayer [and inscriptions] written in Lord Westmorland's hermitage. By Gilbert West.

The prayer is to St. Agnes. It is inserted in Gent. Mag., Dec., 1746, p. 665. The first inscription is reprinted in Dodd's ' Epi- grammatists,' 2nd ed., p. 351. These verses, with a Latin translation made in 1750 by Nicholas Hardinge, are inserted in poems by Hardinge (1818), pp. 100-102.

260-61. To the W Hon. Henry Pelham, petitioi of poets and news-writers. By Edwara Moore ('D.N.B.').

262-6. Ode performed at the Senate-house at Cambridge, July 1, 1749, at the installation^ ot Thomas Holies, Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University. By Mr. Mason (' D.N.B.') ; set to music by Mr. Boyce, composer to his Majesty.

267-8. Ode to an bolus's harp sent to Miss Shepheard (afterwards Viscountess Irwin). By the same.

268-70. Ode to health. By Mr. [John] Duncombe ('D.N.B.'), Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll., Camb.

271-2. Vernal ode, sent to the Archbishop ol Canterbury, 12 March, 1754 [Archbishop Herring]. By Francis Fawkes (' D.N.B.').

273-4. Autumnal ode. By the same.

275-6. A song ["Away, let nought to love dis pleasing "J.

This song used to be assigned to J. Gilber Cooper ('D.N.B.').

276-8. Genius, an ode written in 1717, on occasioi of the Duke of Marlborough's apoplexy. By Leonard WelstedC D.N.B.').

It is included in Nichols's collection of Welsted's works, pp. 33-5. Joseph Warton

E raises this ode, and says it was inserted ere at the request of Akenside, " who much commended it " (Pope's works, ed. Warton

r. 198). It was also included by Southey n his ' Specimens of the Later English Poets,' i. 124-6.

278-82. Translations from Horace. By Sir James * Marriott (' D.N.B.').

282-3. To a lady [Mrs. Ardesoif] making a pin- >asket.

Mrs. Ardesoif (d. 1773) was the wife of Thomas Ardesoif, who died in 1752. She was Henrietta, only daughter of Charles

'Apestre, a native of France, whose father came over with his family after the revoca- tion of the Edict of Nantes. They had several children, four of whom (one son and

hree daughters) lived to maturity. The

sldest daughter, Charlotte, married in 1752, Bishop Squire (see the MS. notes in a set of Squire's works at the B.M.).

284-5. Captain Cupid. 285-7. Ode on ambition. 287-93. Ode to fancy.

The last four pieces are also by Marriott.

293-5. Address to his elbow-chair, new cloath'd.. By the late Wm. Somervile ('D.N.B.'). This and the following pieces to the. end of the volume were supplied through Shenstone on Dodsley's request to him for contributions. See Hull, ' Select Letters,' i. 173, 193 ; Lady Luxborough, * Letters to Shenstone,' pp. 353, 365, 401, 404 ; and ' Letters of Shenstone '' (works, 1769), pp. 257 and 281-9. Shen- stone was afterwards dissatisfied.

295-6. Song. By the same.

296-8. Ode to a friend wounded in a duel. By Charles Parrott, Fellow of New College.

299-301. Ode to night. By the same. This ode first appeared in The World, No. 74, 30 May, 1754.

302-3. Written tipon leaving a friend's house [Mr. G. Rice, of Newton] in Wales. By the Rev. Dr. M. [Markham] ('D.N.B.').

303-4. Dennis ('D.N.B.') to Mr. Thomson (' D.N.B.') who had procured him a benefit night.

These lines are said to have been written by Richard Savage (' Life of Dennis,' 1734, p. 57).

305-6. Song, 1753 ("How easy was Colin, how blithe and how gay"). Signed I. S. H. [Hylton].

306-7. The bulfinch in town. By a lady of quality [Henrietta, Lady Luxborough' ('D.N.B.') half- sister to Lord Bolingbroke].

307-9. Song, written in winter 1745.

309-10. Written to a near neighbour, in a tem- pestuous night, 1748.

310-11. Written at a Ferme ornee [The Leasowes, and Cynthio is Shenstone] near Birmingham, 7 August, 1749.

The last three pieces are also by Lady Lux- borough. An account of her, containing the lines ' Written at a Ferme ornee ' and ' The Bulfinch in Town,' appears in Colvile's ' Worthies of Warwickshire,' pp. 486-9.