One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"
No. 56 To the Duke of Devonshire [from Tickell's Poems]
"To the Duke of Devonshire, The Petition of John Ward" <u>The Gentleman's Magazine</u> Vol. 8, p. 9. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=e0kDAAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;