before his death, with the strongest passion:
It was in some measure owing to his instructions that she became so
finished a player; for he understood the action of the stage as well
as any man, and took great pleasure to see her excell in it. He wrote
several Prologues and Epilogues for her, and would always hear her
rehearse them in private, before she spoke them on the stage. His
friends of both sexes quarrelled with him for his attachment to her, and
so much resented it, that Mrs. Oldfield frequently remonstrated to him,
that it was for his honour and interest to break off the intrigue: which
frankness and friendship of hers, did, as he often confessed, but engage
him the more firmly; and all his friends at last gave over importuning
him to leave her, as she gained more and more upon him.

In honour of our author, Mr. Oldmixon observes, that he had an
abhorrence of those that swore, or talked profanely in conversation.
He looked upon it as a poor pretence to wit, and never excused it in
himself or others.--I have already observed, that our author had a
share in the Medley, a paper then set up in favour of the Hanoverian
succession, in which he combats the Examiner, who wrote on the opposite,
or, at least, the High-Church Interest.

He also wrote the following pieces.

1. Remarks on a late Romance, intitled the Memorial of the Church of
England, or the History of the Ten Champions.

2. A Translation of the second Ode, of the first book of Horace.

3. A Translation of the fifth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

4. A Character of the new Ministers, 1710.

5. Several Songs, Poems, Prologues and Epilogues.

6. There was a Manuscript given him to peruse, which contained Memoirs
of the duke of Marlborough's famous march to Blenheim: It was written by
a chaplain of the duke's, with great exactness as to the incidents, but
was defective in form. Mr. Maynwaring was desired to alter and improve
it, which he found too difficult a task; but being greatly pleased with
the particular account of all that pass'd in that surprizing march,
he resolved that it should not be lost, and to give it a new and more
perfect form himself, by reducing a kind of diary into a regular
history. These papers fell into the hands of Sir Richard Steel.

7. A Translation of part of Tully's Offices.

8. Four Letters to a Friend in North-Britain, written upon the
publishing Dr. Sacheveral's Trial.

9. The History of Hannibal, and Hanno, from the