Soon after her death, her Poems and Translations were collected and
published in a volume in folio, to which was added Monsieur
Corneille's Pompey and Horace, Tragedies; with several other
Translations out of French, London 1667, with her picture, a good
busto, before them, standing on a pedestal, on which is inscribed
Orinda; it was printed again at London 1678. In a collection of
Letters published by Mr. Thomas Brown, in 1697, are printed four
Letters from Mrs. Philips to the Honourable Berenice. Many years after
her death, were published a volume of excellent Letters from Mrs.
Philips to Sir Charles Cotterel with the ensuing title, Letters from
Orinda to Polliarchus, 8vo. London 1705. Major Pack, in his Essay on
Study, inserted in his Miscellanies, gives the following character of
these Letters; 'The best Letters I have met with in our English
tongue, are those of the celebrated Mrs. Philips to Sir Charles
Cotterel; as they are directed all to the same person, so they run all
in the same strain, and seem to have been employed in the service of a
refined and generous friendship. In a word, they are such as a woman
of spirit and virtue, should write to a courtier of honour, and true
gallantry.' The memory of this ingenious lady has been honoured with
many encomiums. Mr. Thomas Rowe in his epistle to Daphne, pays the
following tribute to her fame.

At last ('twas long indeed!) Orinda came,
To ages yet to come an ever glorious name;
To virtuous themes, her well tun'd lyre she strung;
Of virtuous themes in easy numbers sung.
Horace and Pompey in her line appear, }
With all the worth that Rome did once revere: }
Much to Corneille they owe, and much to her. }
Her thoughts, her numbers, and her fire the same,
She soar'd as high, and equal'd all his fame.
Tho' France adores the bard, nor envies Greece
The costly buskins of her Sophocles.
More we expected, but untimely death,
Soon stopt her rising glories with her breath.

More testimonies might be produced in favour of Mrs. Philips, but as
her works are generally known, and are an indelible testimony of her
merit, we reckon it superfluous. Besides the poetical abilities of the
amiable Orinda, she is said to have been of a generous, charitable
disposition, and a friend to all in distress.

As few ladies ever lived more happy in her friends than our poetess,
so those friends have done justice to her memory, and celebrated he