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292  :::::So ſtreams from either pole. Thro’ diff’rent tracks their wat’ry journies rowl;
 * Then in the blending ocean loſe their name,

And with conſenting waves and mingl’d tides forever flow the ſame.

HIS gentleman was of the firſt rank of wit and gallantry. He received his education at All Souls College in the univerſity of Oxford, to which he left a donation of 30,000 l. by his will, part of which was to be appropriated for building a new library. He was many years governour of the Leeward Iſlands, where he died, but was buried at Oxford. He is mentioned here, on account of ſome ſmall pieces of poetry, which we wrote with much elegance and politeneſs. Amongſt theſe pieces is an epilogue to Mr. Southern’s tragedy called The Fate of Capua, in which are the following verſes;