Nothing like friendship has yet taken place between Pope and Young,
for, soon after the event which Pope mentions, Young published a
poem on the queen's death, and his Majesty's accession to the
throne. It is inscribed to Addison, then secretary to the Lords
Justices. Whatever were the obligations which he had formerly
received from Anne, the poet appears to aim at something of the same
sort from George. Of the poem the intention seems to have been, to
show that he had the same extravagant strain of praise for a king as
for a queen. To discover, at the very onset of a foreigner's reign,
that the gods bless his new subjects in such a king is something
more than praise. Neither was this deemed one of his excusable
pieces. We do not find it in his works.

Young's father had been well acquainted with Lady Anne Wharton, the
first wife of Thomas Wharton, Esq., afterwards Marquis of Wharton; a
lady celebrated for her poetical talents by Burnet and by Waller.

To the Dean of Sarum's visitation sermon, already mentioned, were
added some verses "by that excellent poetess, Mrs. Anne Wharton,"
upon its being translated into English, at the instance of Waller by
Atwood. Wharton, after he became ennobled, did not drop the son of
his old friend. In him, during the short time he lived, Young found
a patron, and in his dissolute descendant a friend and a companion.
The marquis died in April, 1715. In the beginning of the next year,
the young marquis set out upon his travels, from which he returned
in about a twelvemonth. The beginning of 1717 carried him to
Ireland: where, says the Biographia, "on the score of his
extraordinary qualities, he had the honour done him of being
admitted, though under age, to take his seat in the House of Lords."
With this unhappy character it is not unlikely that Young went to