Newsletter received by Richard Newdigate, Arbury

Thomas Flatman's pastoral on the death of the Earl of Rochester has been written on the verso of the leaf. Entitled, "Three" : "As on his Death bed gasping Strehon lay Strephon ______ the wonder of the Plaines. The Noblest of th Arcadian swaines Strephon the Bold the Witty & the Gay With many a Sigh & many a Fear he sed Remember me O Sheapheards when Dead the Flattring glorys of this World Adiew And Vain Applauses of the Age For when we quit this Mortall Stage (Beleeve me Sheapheards for I tell you true) Those Pleasures wch from Vertuous Deeds we haave Procure the sweetest Slumbers in our grave Then Since Your Fatall Hour will Surely Come And That your Heads next Ly as Low as Mine Your Bright Meridian will Decline Beseech the Mighty Pan to Guard you Home If in Elyzium you will Happy Bee not Live as Strephon, but as Strephon Dye".

Physical description: 1 leaf.