Those blessings which we highliest prize
Are soonest ravish'd from our eyes.
On Mrs. Dove, &c.] Dr. Henry Dove was a divine of some mark, chaplain (it must have been rather in the Vicar of Bray line) to Charles, James, and William, Archdeacon of Richmond, and a strongly recommended candidate for the Mastership of Trinity, when young John Montague, Lord Sandwich's son, got it—iure natalium, apparently, as he had previously got his M.A. degree.
Lucretius.
Sed jam nec Domus accipiet te laeta, nec Uxor
Optima, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati
Praeripere, et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent.
Paraphrased.
When thou shalt leave this miserable life,