James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
June 13On the Death of Lord Hastings
By John Dryden (16311700)
“I
Interpreter to Greece, France, Italy.
His native soil was the four parts o’ the earth;
All Europe was too narrow for his birth.
A young apostle; and with reverence may
I speak’t, inspired with gifts of tongues as they.
Nature gave him, a child, what men in vain
Oft strive, by art though furthered, to obtain.