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F Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can find few memorials. He was bred at Westminster and Cambridge ; and Jacob relates, that he was some time tutor to the Duke of Richmond.

He appears from his writings to have been not ill-qualified for poetical compositions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university, he enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was engaged, among other popular names, in the translations of Ovid and Juvenal. In his Review, though unfinished, are some vigorous lines. His poems are not below Rh