TO THE MEMORY of Mr. OLDHAM1. F AREWEL, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think, and call my own: Whilft his young friend perform'd, and won the race. What could advancing age have added more? 1 Mr. John Oldham, celebrated chiefly for the feverity of his fatires, was fon of a nonconformist minifter, who educated him at Oxford, where he took a batchelor's degree. Some verfes of his, that were known in the world before the perfon of him who wrote them, brought him acquainted with the earl of Rochefter, the earl of Dorfet, and Sir Charles Sedley, through whose means he was introduced to the most fhining men of the age, particularly to Dryden. He died of the fmall-pox in his 30th year, 1683, at the houfe of that nobleman, who treated him with all the goodness of a friend. VOL. II. M Once Once more, hail, and farewel; farewel, thou young, Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound; TO THE Pious Memory of the accomplished young Lady Mrs. ANNE KILLIGREW, Excellent in the Two SISTER-ARTS of POESY and PAINTING. TH HOU youngest virgin-daughter of the fkies, 2 This lady was daughter to Dr. Henry Killigrew, mafter of the Savoy, and a prebendary of Westminster. She died of the fmallpox in her twenty-fifth year, on the 16th of June, 1685, being then one of the Dutchess of York's maids of honour. She was a great proficient both in painting and poetry. She drew the pictures of feveral people of the first quality, with fome hiftory-pieces and landfcapes. Her poems were collected and printed, after her death, in a thin quarto, with this poem prefixed, 4 Whether, |