Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (c. 1633 – 18 January 1685), English poet, was born in Ireland about 1630. He was a nephew of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and was educated partly under a tutor at his uncle's seat in Yorkshire, partly at Caen in Normandy and partly at Rome.

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• My God, my Father, and my Friend,
  Do not forsake me at my end.
  • Translation of Dies Iræ.

Essay on Translated Verse (1684)

• Remember Milo’s end,
  Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
  • Line 87.

• And choose an author as you choose a friend.
  • Line 96.

• Immodest words admit of no defence,
  For want of decency is want of sense.
  • Line 113.

• The multitude is always in the wrong.
  • Line 184.