DIDO AND AENEAS GOING TO THE FIELD * ; TRANSLATED FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S ENEIDE. Ar the threshold of her chamber dore T The Carthage lords did on the quene attend; Chawing the foaming bit ther fercely ftood. His wintring place, and Xanthus' flood likewife DIDO'S PASSION, AND ITS EFFECTES ON THE RYSINGE CITIE, FROM THE SAME BOOK. --AND when they all were gone, Afcanius, trapped by his father's forme. • This and the two following pieces, are now printed, for the firft time, among Surrey's Poems THE LIFE OF WYAT. Sir Thomas What was the fon of Henry Wyat, Efq. of Allington Caftle, in Kent, where he was born, in the year 1503. He is commonly called the elder, to distinguish him from his son, of the fame name, who raised a rebellion in the reign of Queen Mary. He received the rudiments of his education at Cambridge, and afterwards went to Oxford, where he completed his studies: But his chief and most splendid accomplishments were derived from his travels into various parts of Europe, which he frequently visited in the quality of an envoy. He was the contemporary and friend of the accomplished and high-spirited Earl of Surrey. A fimilarity, or rather fameness of taste and of pursuits, as it is a proof, fo perhaps it was the chief cement of that inviolable friendship which fubfifted between them. His wit and popular accomplishments rendered him one of the brilliant ornaments of the court of King Henry the Eighth, which at least affected to be polite; and as Henry did not always act from cruelty and caprice, he was endeared to him, for his fidelity and fuccefs in the execution of public business, his skill in arms, literature, familiarity with languages, and lively conversation. Wood, who degrades every thing by poverty of ftyle, fays, that " the king was in a high manner delighted with his witty jefts." He is reported to have occafioned the Reformation by a joke, and to have planned the fall of Cardinal Wolfey by a seasonable story. But he had almost lost his popularity, either from an intimacy with Queen Anne Boleyn, which was called a connection, or the gloomy cabals of Bishop Bonner, who could not bear his political fuperiority. Yet his prudence and integrity, no less than the powers of his cratory, juftiffed his innocence. He laments his fevere and unjust imprisonment, on that occasion, in a fonnet addreffed to the brave and accomplished Sir Francis Bryan; infinuating his folicitude, that although the wound would be healed, the fcar would remain; and that to be acquitted of the accufation, would avail but little, while the thoughts of having been accufed were ftill fresh in his remembrance. He recovered his liberty and the king's favour, and was wife enough not to interrupt his pleasures, his convenience, or his ambition; but spent much of his time at Allington Castle, which he magnificently repaired" for the reception," fays Jacob, " of one of his noble spirit and refined taste of life; which were more fuperior to his ancestors than his stately manfion, by the coftly reparations, exceeded the ancient ftructure." In one of his epifiles to Poines, on the life of a courtier, his execration of flatterers and courtiers is contrasted with an entertaining picture of his own private life and rural enjoyments at Allington Castle. |