son,
a friend, or a member of society, and he had the happiness to fill every
one of these parts, without even the suspicion either of undutifulness,
insincerity, or disrespect. Thus he continued to the last, not owing his
virtues to the happiness of his constitution, but the frame of his
mind, insomuch, that during a long sickness, which is apt to ruffle the
smoothest temper; he never betrayed any discontent or uneasiness, the
integrity of his life still preserving the chearfulness of his spirits;
and if his friends had measured their hopes of his life, only by his
unconcern in his sickness, they could not but conclude, that either his
date would be much longer, or that he was at all times prepared for
death.' He had long been troubled with a lingering consumption, attended
with an asthma; and the summer before he died, by the advice of his
physicians, he removed to Batly, where he got only some present ease,
but went from thence with but small hopes of recovery; and upon the
return of the distemper, he died at Hereford the 15th of February,
1708. He was interred in the Cathedral church of that city, with an
inscription upon his grave-stone, and had a monument erected to his
memory in Westminster-abbey by Sir Simon Harcourt, afterwards lord
chancellor; the epitaph of which was written by Dr. Friend.

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WILLIAM WALSH, Esq;

This poet was the son of Joseph Walsh, of Aberley in Worcestershire. He
became a gentleman-commoner of Wadham-College Oxford, in Easter-Term,
1678, when he was only fifteen years of age; he left it without a
degree, retired to his native county, and some time after went to
London. He wrote a Dialogue concerning Women, being a Defence of the
Fair-Sex, addressed to Eugenia, and printed in the year 1691. This
is the most considerable of our author's productions, and it will be
somewhat necessary to take further notice of it, which we cannot
more effectually do, than by transcribing the words of Dryden in its
commendation.--That great critic thus characterises it. 'The perusal of
this dialogue, in defence of the Fair-Sex, written by a gentleman of my
acquaintance, much surprised me: For it was not easy for me to imagine,
that one so young could have treated so nice a subject with so much
judgment. It is true, I was not ignorant that he was naturally
ingenious, and that he had improved himself by travelling; and from
thence I might reasonably have expected, tha