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 *retires to his convent, and writes the history of the council of Trent, ibid. died 1623, 269. his character, ibid.

Satire, sir Car Scroop's praise of, vii.

Savage, Richard, his life, viii. 96. born Jan. 10, 1697, a son of earl Rivers by the countess of Macclesfield, 98. left to the care of his mother, who abandons him, ibid. committed to the care of a poor woman, to be brought up as her own son, 99. lady Mason, his grandmother, takes some care of him, ibid. his godmother, Mrs. Lloyd, left him three hundred pounds, which was never paid him, ibid. placed at a small grammar school near St. Alban's, 100. lord Rivers on his death-bed inquires particularly of him, and is assured by his mother that he was dead, by which he loses six thousand pounds left him by his father, 101. his mother attempts to send him to America secretly, ibid. his mother places him with a shoemaker in Holborn, 102. on the death of his nurse discovers his parents, ibid. applies to his mother, who resolves to neglect him, ibid. became an author through necessity, 103. publishes his first poems against the bishop of Bangor, ibid. writes his first play, Woman's a Riddle, in his eighteenth year, ibid. at twenty-one, writes Love in a Veil, 104. is patronized by sir Richard Steele, ibid. story of his going with sir Richard Steele, and writing a pamphlet, which he sells for two guineas, to raise money, ibid. Steele proposes to marry one of his natural daughters to Savage, 106. Steele discards him, ibid. through the intercession of Wilks obtains fifty pounds from his mother, 107. frequents the stage, becomes acquainted with Mrs. Oldfield, who allows him fifty pounds a year during her life, 108. Mr. Wilks occasionally allows him a benefit, which is counteracted by his mother, 109. writes the tragedy of sir Thomas Overbury, 110. Cibber corrects the tragedy, 111. experiences the friendship of Aaron Hill, who writes the prologue and epilogue to the tragedy of Overbury, ibid. acts the part of Overbury, 112. seventy guineas left for Savage, by Mr. Hill's publishing his case in the Plain Dealer, 113. his flattery to lady M. W. Montague in his dedication to his volume of poems, ibid. adds to his reputation by his poem on the death of George the first, 114. account of his killing Mr. James Sinclair, 116. his trial and defence, 116. is found guilty of murder, 118. he obtains a pardon, although it had been greatly obstructed by his mother, 120. further accounts of his mother's enmity, 121. meets the principal evidence against him in distress, and divides his only guinea with her, 122. his own opinion of the killing of Sinclair, 123. lived a life of want and plenty, 124. threatens to publish a narrative of his mother's conduct, in hopes of extorting a pension from her, ibid. received into the family of lord Tyrconnel, who promises him a pension of two hundred pounds a year, ibid. writes the Author to be Let, 125. the part he had in the Dunciad, 127. his epigram on Dennis, 128. receives twenty guineas for a panegyrick on sir R. Walpole, ibid. laments the misery of living at other men's tables, 129. publishes the Wanderer, with the character of that poem, 130. his peculiar attention to correctness in printing, 131. sells the copy of the Wanderer for ten guineas, ibid. his quarrel with lord Tyrconnel, 132. writes the Triumph of Health and Mirth, 135. closely studies the great, ibid. again turned adrift on the world, 137. too much elevated by good fortune, 138. his mother continues her ill treatment of him, 139. the resentment between lord Tyrconnel and him kept up for many years, 140. publishes the Bastard, a poem, 141. this poem obliges his mother to retire from Bath to London, ibid. ready to accept the praises of the people, and to find excuses for their censure, 142. imputed none of his miseries to himself, 144. mistook the love, for the practice of virtue, ibid. his actions precipitate and blameable, his writings tended to the propagation of morality and piety, ibid. exerts all his interest to be appointed poet laureate, but is disappointed, 145. becomes volunteer laureate to the queen, for which the queen sends him fifty pounds, and leave to continue it annually, 146. accused of influencing elections against the court, 149. an information against him in the King's Bench, for publishing an obscene pamphlet, ibid. writes the Progress of a Divine, 150. satirized in the Weekly Miscellany, and defended in the Gentleman's Magazine, 151. the information dismissed by sir Philip Yorke, 152. purposes writing the Progress of a Free-*