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My good Lord!
Your acceptance of a Portrait of my Eldest Son is so
flattering a Testimony of your Lordships friendship & regard
for the Original, that I cannot let it go without making my
acknowledgement for the honour it do's him; by giving it
a place where there is so noble and so valuable a Collection
that I could wish the Piece itself had more Pretension to
such a distinction. The Portrait, at least the Capital part
of it, I mean the Head, was done by the Frye a Painter
of no small eminence in his Time, and was then looked
upon as a very striking Resemblance, how little likeness
soever there may appear to be now; but by the Death of Frye
before it was finished, the underpart was the work of a
different, and, I am sorry to say, an indifferent Hand.
The two Stanzas inscribed on it were Part of a copy of Verses
of my Son's own Composition, in the Collection of the
University — Verses upon occasion of the Death of the late King, and
the Accession of his present Majesty, and were introduced
into the Picture for the purpose of denoting the Time
when it was drawn; he being then a Member of Queen's
College Oxford, to which he was admitted when he was
but thirteen years of age, and where he took his Degree of
A.B. at the age of Sixteen, and his subsequent Degree
of A.M. by the Time he was Twenty; by which as I was
informed, he became the youngest Graduate that had ever
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