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MONK. 437. visit, prevailed with him to cross the water once more, although he was in a very infirm state of health, in July 1698, and he remained in England till the middle of Sep tember. But the pleasure of this long wished-for inter view, which he intended to have repeated the following spring, seems to have been purchased at the expense of his life; for, shortly after, he was seized with a severe f i t o f his constitutional distemper, the stone, which occa sioned such retchings a s broke a blood-vessel, and two days after put a period t o his life. He died October 11th, 1698, and was buried a t St. Audoen's church, Dublin, where there i s a monument and Latin inscription t o his memory. Besides the “Sciothericum Telescopium,” and the “Dioptrica Nova,” already mentioned, h e published many pieces i n the Philosophical Transactions. HoN. MARY MONK, Daughter o f Lord Molesworth, and wife t o George Monk, Esq. was celebrated for her poetical talents. She acquired, b y dint o f application, a perfect knowledge o f the Latin, Italian, and Spanish languages, and from a study o f the best authors, a decided taste for poetical composition. Her poems were not printed till after her decease, when they were published under the title o f “Marinda; Poems and Translations upon several Occa sions,” London, 1716, 8vo. A dedication t o Caroline Princess o f Wales, was prefixed t o them b y Lord Moles worth, the father o f Mrs. Monk, who speaks o f the poems a s the production “of the leisure hours o f a young woman, who, i n a remote country retirement, without other assist ance than that o f a good library, and without omitting the daily care due t o a large family, not only acquired the several languages here made use of, but the good morals and principles contained i n those books, s o a s t o put them i n practice, a s well during her life and languishing sick ness, a s a t the hour o f her death; dying not only like a Christian, but a Roman lady, and becoming a t once the