Verses attributed to Charles Yorke

These lines, "Stript to the naked soul," have been frequently printed, indeed so lately as in Lord Campbell's *Lives of the Chancellors*, at the end of the Life of Charles Yorke, as his, but without any observation. What is most singular is, that the excellent editor of Bishop Warburton's *Literary Remains* has overlooked the fact that they are driven in that prelate's correspondence with Bishop Hurd as Pope's. (See *Letters*, p. 362., edit. 1809, 8vo.) Warburton observes, "The little poem is certainly his." He remarks in a letter to Yorke— "You have obliged me much (as is your wont) by a fine…