occasion seems to have been an apprehension lest, from the
liveliness of his satires, he should not be deemed sufficiently
serious for promotion in the Church.

In July, 1730, he was presented by his College to the Rectory of
Welwyn, in Hertfordshire. In May, 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth
Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
His connection with this lady arose from his father's acquaintance,
already mentioned, with Lady Anne Wharton, who was co-heiress of Sir
Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordshire. Poetry had lately been taught
by Addison to aspire to the arms of nobility, though not with
extraordinary happiness. We may naturally conclude that Young now
gave himself up in some measure to the comforts of his new
connection, and to the expectations of that preferment which he
thought due to his poetical talents, or, at least, to the manner in
which they had so frequently been exerted.

The next production of his muse was "The Sea-piece," in two odes.

Young enjoys the credit of what is called an "Extempore Epigram on
Voltaire," who, when he was in England, ridiculed, in the company of
the jealous English poet, Milton's allegory of "Sin and Death:"

"You are so witty, profligate and thin,
At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin."

From the following passage in the poetical dedication of his "Sea-
piece" to Voltaire it seems that this extemporaneous reproof, if it
must be extemporaneous (for what few will now affirm Voltaire to
have deserved any reproof), was something longer than a distich, and