POETICAL WORKS OF DR. WILLIAM KING. IN TWO VOLUMES. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. 1 fing the various chances of the world, Thro' which men are by Fate or Fortune hurl'd. 'Tis by no scheme or method that I go, But paint in verfe my notions as they flow; VOL. I. EDINBURG: at the Apollo Puls, BY THE MARTINS. KING. Read here in fofteft founds the sweeteft fatire; ANONYM. EDINBURG: AT THE Apollo Puls, BY THE MARTINS, Geddes Family 4-29-32 THE LIFE OF DR. WILLIAM KING. THIS ingenious and humorous Poet was fon of Ezekiel King of London, in which city he was born about the year 1663. He was bred with the frictest care from his infancy, and as foon as he became fit for it was put under the care of Dr. Busby at Westminster school, where being chosen King's Scholar, his natural good talents received all those improvements from cultivation that might be expected from fo admirable a master. He was afterwards elected to Chrift-church College in Oxford, and admitted a ftuMdent there on Michaelmas term 1681, at the age of eighteen years. With this fituation he was particularly pleased, and made use of the advantages it gave him. He had a strong propensity to letters, and of those valuable treasures he daily increased his stock; but being well defcended, and becoming early poffeffed of an easy fortune*, he indulged his genius and M * The author of fome Account of his Life obferves that he was allied to the noble families of Clarendon and Rochester; and feveral paffages of his life mentioned in the courfe of this Memoir confirms it. The Doctor himself having occafion to fpeak of fome fine pictures of Paulo Veronese, in the possesfion afterwards of Lord Harcourt, calls him his Coufin; and among his Hints for making a collection of books, manuscripts,. c. which might tend to the honour of the British name, he propofes an inquiry to be made what lives of merchants and |