Humano generi utilius NIHIL arte medendi. Neu legat Idæo Dictæum in vertice gramen. Sed tempus finem argutis imponere nugis : ROSCOMM O N. 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 |