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By this lady he left three children, only one of which was a fon, from whom the present Earl of Sunderland is lineally defcended; and having furvived her lord about forty years, she was buried in the fame vault with him, at Brinton in Northamptonshire, on the 25th of February 1683.

Such was Philoclea, and fuch Dorus' flame ! ]This verse is restored to its native purity from the edition that was printed in the year 1645.

At Penfburft, p. 79.

THE name of this feat denotes its fituation to be in a woody country, which is the extremity of the Wealde of Kent, to which Mr. Waller has alluded:

Embroider'd fo with flowers where the food,
That it became a garden of a wood.

In the reign of K. Edward VI. it was forfeited to the crown by its former proprietor, and granted by that Prince to Sir William Sidney, Lord Chamberlain of his Household.

Had Dorothea liv'd, &c.] This verfe is printed as it ftands in the old edition; by which the poem appears to have been written before Mr. Waller had determined to celebrate this lady under the name of Sachariffa, a name which recalls to mind what is related of the Turks, who, in their gallantries, think fucar birpara, i. e. bit of fugar, to be the most polite and endearing compliment they can use to the ladies.

The ftory of Phebus and Daphne applied, p. 84.

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Ture paffion of Apollo for Daphne is related by Ovid in the first book of his Metamorphofes, the ap plication of which has produced one of the most beautiful poems in our own or any other modern language. Yet I cannot think Mr. Waller was fo pe culiarly fond of it as likewife to be author of the fol lowing version, but rather give credit to a memoran dum which lonce found in the margin of an old edi tion, which affirmed that Sir John Suckling tranflated it into Latin.

So in thofe nations which the fun adore, &c.] This fimile is reftored from the edition that was printed in the year 1645, in all others it is omitted.

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Upon the death of my Lady Rich, p. 90.

In all Mr. Waller's collection of beauties, no one appears more amiable in all lights than fhe whofe untimely death is deplored in this excellent elegy. She was the Lady Anne Cavendish, fole daughter of William Earl of Devonshire, and was married to the heir of that Earl of Warwick, whofe character will be recited in thofe Obfervations; by whom the left only one fon, who, long after her death, married Cromwell's youngest daughter. An alliance which, had the lived, fhe would no doubt have endeavoured to prevent, as it was most cordially detefted by all her

own loyal relations. Before fhe had completed the twenty-seventh year of her age, she died at Lees, and was buried at Felfted in Effex, in the year 1638; fö that we may conclude Mr. Waller wrote this poem anno ætat. 33. A lady! whofe accomplishments were in every kind fo extraordinary, that they seem to have tranfcended even his genius to delineate them as they deserved: and therefore I will add another de fcription of her perfon, from which, when we have formed an idea of confummate beauty and virtue, and applied it to my Lady Rich, we shall not flatter her memory. The verses were written by Mr. Sidney Godolphin, a young gentleman of extraordinary parts, who, in an engagement with the rebels in the weft, was flair at Chagford, a little town in the south of Devon, leaving the misfortune of his death upon a place which could never otherwise have had a mention to the world.

Poffefs'd of all that Nature could beftow;
All we can wish to be, or reach to know;
Equal to all the patterns which our mind
Can frame of good beyond the good we find;
All beauties which have pow'r to blefs the fight,
Mix'd with transparent virtue's greater light;
At once producing love and reverence,
The admiration of the foul and fenfe;

The moit difcerning thoughts, the calmeft breaft,
Most apt to pardon, needing pardon leaft;
The largest mind, and which did moft extend
To all the laws of daughter, wife, and friend;
The moft allow'd example, by what line
To live, what path to follow, what decline;

Who beft all diftant virtues reconcil'd,

Strict, cheerful, humble, great, fevere, and mild;
Conftantly pious to her latest breath,

Not more a pattern in her life than death;
The Lady Rich lies here. More frequent tears
Have never honour'da any tomb than her's.

Save that foe grac'd, &c.] In all the editions it is printed you grac'd, as directed to Sacharissa; but I doubt not of the verse being originally written as it is here restored; for the Lady Dorothy Sidney was not married till about a year after this poem was compofed, and, confequently, a faultless wife could be then no part of her character.

Of Mrs Arden, p. 97.

I SUPPOSE fhe was either a Maid of Honour, or a Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber, to K. Charles I.'s Queen, and the fame who is mentioned in the lift of Court ladies who acted Mr. Montague's Shepherd's Paradife, which is deservedly ridiculed by Sir John Suckling in his Seffion of the Poets.

Of the marriage of the Dwarfs, p. 98.

THE perfons on whom these verses were written, were Mr. Richard Gibson, a favourite Page of the Backstairs, and Mrs. Anne Shepherd, whose mar riage King Charles I. honoured with his presence,

and gave the bride. I have seen both of them painted by Sir Peter Lely, and they appeared to have been of an equal stature, cach of them measuring three feet ten inches. They had nine children, five of which attained to maturity, and were well proportioned to the ufual standard of mankind. Mr. Gibson's genius led him to painting, in the rudiments of which art he was inftructed by De Clein, master of the tapestry works at Mortlack, and famous for the cuts which he designed for fome of Ogilby's things, and Mr Sandys' excellent tranflation of Ovid. His paintings in water colours were well esteemed; but the copies which he made of Lely's portraits gained him the greatest reputation. He had the honour to be employed in teaching her late Majesty Queen Anne the art of drawing, and was fent for into Holland to inftruct her filter the Princess of Orange. To recompenfe the shortness of their ftature, Nature gave them an equi valent in length of days, for he died in the feventyfifth year of his age, and his wife, having furvived him almoft twenty years, deceafed anno Dom. 1709,ætat.89.

Thyrfis, Galatea, p. 107.

THE perfon who is the subject of this poem was the Lady Mary Fielding, daughter to the Earl of Denbeigh, by a fifter of the favourite Duke of Bucking→ ham. She was contracted to the Duke of Hamilton

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