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F GEORGE GRANVILLE,

or as others write Greenville, or Grenville, afterwards lord Landfdown of Biddeford in the county of Devon, lefs is known than his name and rank might give reason to expect. He was born about 1667, the fon of Bernard Greenville, who was entrusted by Monk with the most private tranfactions of the Reftoration, and the grandfon of Sir Bevil Greenville, who died in the King's caufe, at the battle of Landfdowne.

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His carly education was fuperintended by Sir William Ellis; and his progrefs was fuch, that before the age of twelve he was fent to Cambridge, where he pronounced a copy of his own verses to the princess Mary d'Efté of Modena, then dutchess of York, when the vifited the univerfity.

At the acceffion of king James, being now at eighteen, he again exerted his poetical powers, and addreffed the new monarch in three fhort pieces, of which the firft is profane, and the two others fuch as a boy might be expected to produce; but he was commended by old Waller, who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated, in fix lines, which, though they begin with nonsense and

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