[ ] A SELECT COLLECTION OF POEMS. EPIGRAM, BY BP. ATTERBURY*; WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BORROWED FROM MISS OSBORNE, AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE.. LAVIA the leaft and flighteft toy FLAVI Can with refiftlefs art employ: This Fan in meaner hands would prove Yet * Francis Atterbury, born March 6, 1662, was educated at Westminster; and in 1680 was elected a ftudent of ChriftChurch. In 1693 he applied to the earl of Nottingham, to fucceed to his father's rectory of Milton in Bucks; but, being unfuccessful, came to London: where he was foon diftinguished, appointed chaplain to king William, and elected preacher at Bridewell, and lecturer of St. Bride's; which laft office he refigned in December 1698. In 1700 he was made archdeacon of Totnefs, by Sir Jonathan Trelawney bifhop of Exeter; and, entering deeply into the famous controverfy concerning the convocation against Dr. Wake dean of Exeter, was created doctor in divinity in a manner which did him fingular honour. On the acceffion of queen Anne, he was made one of her chaplains; and in October 104, deau of Carlitle; in Yet fhe, with graceful air and mien, Directs its wanton motions fo, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow; Gives 1707, canon refidentiary of Exeter; in 1709, preacher at The Rolls. In 1710 he was unanimoufly chofen prolocutor of the lower house of convocation; in 1711 made dean of ChriftChurch, Oxford; in the beginning of June 1713, advanced to the bishoprick of Rochester and deanry of Westminster. He officiated, as dean, at the coronation of king George the Firft; when he received from his majefty fome marks of perfonal diflike, owing probably to his having warmly efpoufed the caufe of Sacheverell, whofe defence he penned (in concert with Dr. Smalridge), and from whom he afterwards received a legacy of five hundred pounds. In 1715 he refufed to fign the declaration publifhed by the Bishops against the rebellion, and was ever afterward in oppofition to the court. He was apprehended on fufpicion of treafon, and committed to The Tower, August 22, 1722; but was never brought to trial, which he repeatedly defired. At length a bill was brought into parliament, and paffed, by which he was fentenced to deprivation and banishment, and which received the royal affent May 27, 1723. It is faid the king gave his affent to the bill with regret. None of his relations, not even his own children, were permitted to vifit him in his banish ment, without first obtaining leave under the king's fign manual. On the 18th of June he left this kingdom; and diedat Paris, Feb. 17, 1731-2. His body was brought tẹ England, and interred on the 12th of May following in Westminster Abbey. His bowels were in an urn, thus infcribed, ་་ ïn Gives coolness to the matchlefs dame; To every other breaft-a flame. "In hac urnâ depofiti funt cineres SONG, Francifci Atterbury, Epifcopi Roffenfis." Mr. Pope's very beautiful epitaph on him is printed in the In carcerem conjectus Aug. xx1V, MDCCXX11. Tom viventium, tum mortuorum Teftimoniis Hoc Facinoris Confcivit, aggreffus eft, perpetravit, Quem nulla nefciet Pofteritas!" Dr. Atterbury and Dr. Smalridge married two fifters, the daughters of the Rev. Mr. Ofborne, a relation to the duke of Leeds, who had a benefice in the neighbour hood of Oxford, and taught the French language to the young gentlemen at the univerfity. By his lady Dr. Atterbury had iffue one fon, Ofborne Atterbury, and two daughters. The fon, who was educated at Chrift Church in |