Poets has made use of upon a parallel Occasion; I mean that Passage in
Horace
, where he describes himself when he was a Child, fallen asleep in a desart Wood, and covered with Leaves by the Turtles that took pity on him.
Me fabulosa Vulture in Apulo,
Altricis extra limen Apuliæ,
Ludo fatigatumque somno
Fronde novâ puerum palumbes
Texere ...
have heard that the late Lord
Dorset
, who had the greatest Wit temper'd with the greatest
Candour,