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17920. ~~ on Drummond of Hawtharnden.. 43: 
extraordinary kindnefs for Mr Hyde*, till he found: 
he betook himself to businefs, which he thought 
ought never to be preferred before his company. 
Drummond loved. Drayton,.and a great and conti- 
nued friendfhip subsisted between them, fanned by 
frequent letters, as appears by his papers, which were: 
presented to the earl of Buchan by the reverend Dr 
Abernethy Drummond, already mentioned. 
Drayton, sweet ancient bard! his Albion sung, 
With their own praise her echoing vallies rung; 
His bounding muse o'er ev’ry mountain rode, 
And evry river warbled where he flow’d tf. 
I have a copy. of Latin verses addrefsed:as I sup- 
pose to Drayton by Hawthornden, as it is in the’ 
hand-writing of the latter, and was found.in a bundle’ 
of Drayton’s letters to Drummond: 
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Dum tua melliflui specto pigmenta libelli 
Pendet ab eloquio mens mei rapta tuo, f 
At sensum expencens tumque alice pondsra mentis 
Sensus ab eximio me rapit cloquio; 
Sed mage dedaleo miror te pectore qui sic 
Cogis ad [talicos arglica vérba modos. 
Eloquiura, sensus, mentis vis dzdala longe 
Toilit humo ad superos te super astra Dev. 
Drummond’s family having been grafted‘as it were . 
on the royal family of Scotland, by the marriage of 
king Robert rit. and upheld by them,. he was a steady- 
royalist during the troubles.of Charles t..; but does 
mot appear ever to have armed for him. Yet it 
seems he had been much employed: by the king in his. 
uttermost distrefs, or by those immediately about 
his person, as among his papers I. found a prima cura» 
of king Charles rst’s last appeal to the people of 
England, with corrections and marginal notes, in.the- 
We Earlof Clacendons + Seapieees; cxnto ii. by Mr Joha Kirkpatrick: 
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