Humano generi utilius NIHIL arte medendi.
Ne rhombos igitur, neu Theffala murmura tentet
Idalia vacuum trajectus arundine pectus,

Neu legat Idæo Dictæum in vertice gramen.
Vulneribus fævi NIHIL auxiliatur amoris.
Vexerit & quemvis trans moeftas portitor undas,
Ad fuperos imo NIHIL hunc revocabit ab orco.
Inferni NIHIL inflectit præcordia regis,
Parcarúmque colos, & inexorabile penfum.
Obruta Phlegræis campis Titania pubes
Fulmineo fenfit NIHIL effe potentius ictu :
Porrigitur magni NIHIL extra monia mundi :
Diíque NIHIL metuunt. Quid longo carmine plura
Commemorem ? virtute NIHIL præftantius ipfa,
Splendidius NIHIL eft; NIHIL eft Jove denique
majus.

Sed tempus finem argutis imponere nugis :
Ne tibi fi multa laudem mea carmina charta,
De NIHILO NIHILI pariant faftidia verfus.

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WENTWORTH DILLON, Earl

of Rofcommon, was born in Ireland, during the lieutenancy of Strafford, who, being his godfather, gave him his own furname. His father had been converted by Ufher to the proteftant religion; and when the popish rebellion broke out, Strafford, thinking the family in great danger from the fury of the Irish, fent for his godfon, and placed him at his own feat in Yorkshire, where he was inftructed in Latin; which he learned fo as to write it with purity and elegance, though he was never able to retain the rules of gram

mar,

Such is the account given by Mr. Fenton, from whofe notes on Waller most of this ac

count