Here turn!-and pay the tribute of a figh; But ye profane, unfeeling, come not nigh! Left be, whofe bones beneath this marble reft, Should rife indignant on your eyes unbleft, Launch the swift bolt incenfed fpirits throw, And fend you weeping to the fhades be low! He felt for man-nor dropt a fruitless tear, But kindly ftrove the drooping heart to cheer: If faults he had-for none exempt we find, They, like his virtues, were of gentleft kind; as they continue to be in the greater part at prefent, notwithstanding the more clegant verfion fince made by Tate and Bra ed into English verfe by John Hopkins, a dy. Fifty-eight other pfalms were turncotemporary writer, and the reft were done by other hands. It does not appear that Mr. Sternhold composed any other to lament that he did not. He died in verfes, and this fpecimen gives us no room London, in the year 1549. Life of Edward Stilling fleet, Stillingfleet (Dr. Edward) the learned bishop of Worcefter, was born at Cranborne in Dorfet fhire, the 17th of April, 1635. He was educated at St. John's college in Cambridge, of which he became a fellow. Having taken orders, he was, in 1657, prefented to the rectory of Sutton; or a Rational Account of the Grounds of and, in 1662, published his Origines Sacre Natural and Revealed Religion; a work, which, though written by one who had but just completed his twenty-feventh year, yet, for extenfive and profound learning, folidity of judgment, ftrength of would have done the highest honour to a argument, and perfpicuity of expreffion, man of a more advanced period of life. Our author gained fuch reputation by this Such as arife from genius in excefs, while they blefs; Such as a form so captivating wear, If faults, we doubt-and, to call crimeswe fear; Such as, let envy fift, let malice scan, Will only prove that Yorick was a man." Life of Thomas Sternhold. Sternhold (Thomas) memorable for his version of the pfalms of David, is fuppofed to have been born in Hampshire. He ftudied at Oxford; but leaving that university without a degree, repaired to the court of Henry the VIII. who made him groom of the robes, and at his death bequeathed to him by his will an hundred marks. He enjoyed the fame office under Edward VI. and was in fome efteem at court, on account of his being thought a poet. Being a very zealous reformer, and extremely ftrict in his morals, he was fo offended at the amorous and obfcene fongs ufed at court, that from the moft pious and laudable motives he turned into Engglith metre fitty-one of David's pfalms, and caufed them to be fet to mufic, vain ly flattering himself that the courtiers would fing them, inttead of their loofe and wanton fornets. However, the verfe and the mufic being thought admirable in thofe times, they were gradually introduced into all parish churches, and fung, preacher at the Rolls chapel by Sir Har bottle Grimfton, and in January, 1665, was preferred to the rectory of St. An drew's, Holborn. He was afterwards appointed lecturer at the Temple, and chaplain in ordinary to king Charles II. In 1670, he was made canon refidentiary of St. Paul's; and, fome time after, obtained a prebend in the church of Canterbu ry, as well as the deanery of St. Paul's: in all which stations he acquitted himself like an able, diligent, and learned divine. He was deeply engaged in all the controverfies of his time; with Deifts, with So. cinians, with Papifts, with Diffenters.During the reign of king James II. he wrote feveral tracts against popery, and was prolocutor of the lower houfe of convocation, as he had likewife been under Charles II. After the revolution, he was advanced to the bishopric of Worcester. He died at Westminster on the 27th of March, 1699, in the 64th year of his age, and was buried in the cathedral of Worcefter, where an elegant monument was erected to his memory, with an infeription written by Dr. Bentley, who had been his chaplain. The works of this famous prelate have been collected and published in fix volumes folio. Mrs P_pe The favourite of the Fair. Published as the Act directs by T:WALKER No 79 Dame Street. CAS 6076 Hiftories of the Tete-a-Tete annexed: or Memoirs of the Favourite of the Fair, and the beautiful Mrs. P-pe. HE Favourite of the Fair aims at the Taccomplished gentleman, and in this pursuit he has not been unfuccessful. Favoured by nature with a graceful perfon, and a prepoffeffing countenance, he has by application to polite exercises, and the belles lettres, rendered himself an ornament to his rank, and a much efteemed companion. Thus qualified, we cannot fuppofe the ladies overlooked his pretenfions to their favour; on the contrary, they have peculiarly diftinguished him upon many occafions, and he has for a confiderable time been with great propriety ftiled the Favourite of the Fair. With regard to our heroine, fhe is nei ther a prude or a coquette, a demirep, or a Meffalina-but it is too early to bring her forward upon our canvas. The Favourite of the Fair, who is defcended from one of the most noble families in Scotland, and is heir apparent to a ducal coronet, after having finished his ftudies, made the tour of Europe. Of courfe he took Paris in his way, and remained there for fome time. He vifited all the spectacles, public buildings, and other objects worthy the curiofity of a traveller, who means to blend improvemeat with pleasure, inftruction with a mufement. As ufual, he was befet, in capacity of Mi Lord Anglois, by a group of fharpers, who used every artifice to entice him to game; but as he had formed a fixed refolution, before his departure from England, never to play beyond a certain fum, they found he was fearce worth fleecing, and let him efcape from their, clutches with fome of their own Louis in his pocket, having got scent of another young English nobleman juft arrived, and whom they heard played very deep. the The ladies, however, foon transferred his little gains into their purses, with fome additional attendants; but our hero confidered thefe little facrifices as neceffary to ingratiate him into their good graces; and he found himself not difappointed in his expectations. All Frenchwomen upon ton, are profeffionally gamblers and coquettes: their pin-money being very Hing, they are obliged to have recourfe to quadrille and piquet, to fupply their fupernumerary wants: their pride will not allow them to vend their charms, but they think they are honourably bartered to the man who generously dilates his purfe firings at cards. tri In this predicament the Favourite of the Fair precifely ftood, and we find, that for a few hundreds loft with a good grace, he had more beauty at his command than he was capable of poffeffing. After having thus revelled in Parifian charms, he departed for Italy, and found the ladies there full as amorous as the French women, tho' not fo mercenary. They had more real fentiment, blended with a kind of pride to have the handfomeft Cicifbeos. Our hero could not, therefore, fail being noticed by them, and, as an Englishman, he rivalled a number of French marquifes and Italian counts At the Carnival at Venice, he made acquaintance with the handsomest woman of fafhion there, who difpofed of her favours nearly in the fame manner as the celebrated Ninon de l'Enclos; that is, when he took a fancy to a fine fellow, the would make fuch indirect overtures, as he could not poffibly mifconftrue; but when the came to an eclairciffement, the frankly told him fhe could not confine herself, or pretend to fidelity, any longer than bis vifits were agreeable to her. This was the cafe of the celebrated fignora L—i, widow of a noble Venetian, who had fell a martyr to jealousy and grief which arose from it. He had fought feveral duels in vindication of his honour; but he found the reparation he had obtained upon these occafions was no way fatisfactory; and at length, abandoning himself to melancholy, the foon found herself one of the richeft, as well as the most beautiful widows in all Italy. Our hero's triumph was not however of long date; for a German baron of moft athletic ftature, catching her eye at the opera, he almoft immediately became the Favourite of the Fair's fuccelfor. Nor was our hero much difpleafed at the event, as he had just made acquaintance with a young lady from Piedmont, who had fled from her husband, and was in fearch of a gallant. In accompanying the Favourite of the Fair to Vienna, we ftill find his influence over the ladies as great as ever; and even at Petersburgh his perfonal recommendations and drefs, made him viewed with partial eyes, by women of the first rank in that capital. Amongst the lift of his female admirers was a certain once fair, fat, duchefs, now reduced to the rank of a countess, who has made fo much noise in the world on account of her intrigues, marriages and connexions. Their amorous retreat ufed to be her yacht, on board which they paffed many evenings and as many nights, to the no fmall mortification of her French lover, who had accom panied panied her from Calais. But as Monfieur depended entirely upon her bounty, he was obliged to chew the cud in filence, and bear his rival's fuccefs with the beft grace an avanturier could affume. Our hero finished his tour by the way of Germany and Holland, and returned to England just as a certain gay lady, whofe amours have made fo much eclat in the polite world, began to give an extenfive loose to her difpofition for variety; and he foon became one of her numerous enamoratoes. There are grounds to believe that our hero had reafon to repine at his good fortune upon this occafion, and that there was a neceffity to call in the affiftance of the faculty for his relief. However, a fhort time restored him to his priftine health and vigour, and he moved his amorous quarters to Mrs. N-n's, the notoriety of whofe intrigues has lately re-echoed in Doctor's Commons. Our hero judged it prudent, however, foon to retire from this lady's arms, as he began to dread another disaster from beauty, and refigned his pretenfions in behalf of her coachman, whofe abilities and influence are upon record. He had scarce fold out of N-n's lift, before he fell in with the Wilf-n at the Pantheon, when her sprightly converfation, and elegant figure, made no fmall impreffion on him. She was at this time difengaged, and he reveiled in all the luxury of her wit and beauty for fome weeks. At the end of this period, fhe threw out fome broad hints respecting a fettlement, which immediately gave him the alarm, and he beat a speedy retreat. The Wilf-n was foon after introduced by a certain female negociator, to a well known character in the literary world not far from Strawberry-hill. She met with a molt cordial reception from the venerable fage, who propofed her fuch terms, as the judged it imprudent to accept, as he even went fo far as to mention leaving her a handsome legacy, in cafe their connection fhould continue till his death. We are informed, that this alliance gave great umbrage to a certain humorous actrefs, who has retired for fome years from the ftage; and Kate, who would have thought it, exclaimed with fome degree of rage "It is monftrous to be thus deferted in one's old age!" Indeed, the grief they fay that has feized this lady, upon being thus rivalled by youth and beauty, though not in the leaft extraordinary, has occa fioned her late indifpofition, which has brought her into her prefent decline, and her health into the most critical state. Our hero having thus run a pretty univerfal career with the fair of various ranks, and almost every complexion, he began to take a retrofpective view of his conduct, and balance the pleasure with the inconveniencies that had arifen to him from fuch variegated connections. In France he had been cheated by his mistresses; in Italy he had fome narrow escapes for his life; at Vienua he was surfeited with over fondness; at Petersburgh the fair fat duchefs had nearly fmothered him with the profufion of her charms; in London be had paid pretty dearly for his good fortune, as well as his phyfician, when he found the balance to ftand nearly thus:"Real or imaginary pleasure 40; anxiety, danger, and pain 250." Upon which he refolved to give up the pursuit of varie ty, and to fix with fome agreeable object, who fhould be worthy of his attention. Our hero had fcarce come to this refo lution before he met with Mrs. P-pe, the heroine of these memoirs. He found her a moft agreeable woman, equally dif tant from indelicacy and affectation; pofseffed of uncommon good sense, with a liberal way of thinking, and much vivacity, which enlivened her conversation.Her perfon was tall and elegant; her countenance uncommonly engaging ;with fine expreffive eyes, and a beautiful mouth decorated with a set of regu lar teeth, that equalled ivory for whitenefs. This lady, at the first interview, made a very powerful impreflion upon our hero, and his curiofity was greatly excited to be acquainted with her story. This he learnt from a female acquaintance of Mrs. P-pe, nearly as follows: She was the daughter of a hofier in Cheapfide, who ftuck to the main chance till the last hour of his life. He nevertheless gave his only daughter a polite education, and upon her return from school, the bad many fuitors; but none of them had fufficient fortunes to please the father; be wanted to fee his daughter marry a rich man, let his age or attractions be what they might at length Mr. P-pe, who was a capital merchant, and fuppofed to be poffeffed of at least fifty thousand pounds, paid his addreffes to her. This was a match entirely fuited to Mr. S―'s inclinations, though Mr. P-pe was at that time turned of fixty, extremely infirm, and much troubled with the gout, which often confined him to his bed for feveral weeks. Such was the defined mate of the young lady, and fhe was facrificed at eighteen to an impotent dotard, almoft at his grand climacteric. At that time ignorant of the nature of a connubial connection in all its extent, fhe thought that by becoming her own miftrefs, the could act as the pleafed. She had |