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Uta inter. 
A POEM BY CHARLES COTTON. 
CONTRIBUTED BY W. BEMROSE. 
Bet is believed that the following poem, in the autograph 
of Charles Cotton, here reproduced in fac-simile, has 
never been published. The great intimacy which existed 
between Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, and the connection 
of the former with Derbyshire, are sufficient reasons for the insertion 
of the poem in the Society’s Journal. Grainger says of Charles 
Cotton—“ This ingenious and accomplished gentleman was son 
of that Charles Cotton whose portrait is so finely drawn by Lord 
Clarendon, in the excellent group of his friends, in the memoirs 
of his own life. He was educated at Cambridge, where he was 
esteemed one of the ornaments of that University. He was a 
great master of the modern languages, particularly of the French, 
from which, among other things, he has translated the “ Horace ” 
of Corneille, the ‘* Life of the Duke of Epernon,” and Montaigne’s 
“ Essays.” The last of these translations was deservedl 
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applauded. He also translated several of Lucian’s dialogues 
into English, and some poems from Horace, Catullus, ete. He 
was author of a poem on “ The Wonders of the Peak,” and 
other original pieces. The most celebrated of his works is his 
* Virgil Travestie,” in which he so far succeeded as to be deemed 
next to Butler in burlesque ; but the reader, upon comparing 
these two authors, will find a very great disparity in their 
_ characters. He was sociable, hospitable, and generous ; but as 
he was far from being an economist, he, in the latter part of his 
life, was much involved in debt, and perpetually harassed with 
duns, attornies, and bailiffs.” 
