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cellent endowments, that Reubens his master,fearing he would become as univerfalas himself, to divert him from hiftories, ufed to commend his talent in painting after the life, and took fuch care to keep him continually employed in bufinefs of that nature, that he refolved, at last,to make it his principal study. For his improvement he went to Venice, where he attained the beautiful colouring of Titian, Paulo Veronefe, &c.; and after a few years spent in Rome, Genoa, and Sicily, returned home to Flanders, with a manner of painting fo noble, natural, and eafy, that Titian himfelf was hardly his fuperiour, and no other mafter in the world equal to him for portraits. He came over into England foon after Reubens had left it, and was entertained in the fervice of K. Charles I. who conceived a marvellous efteem for his works, honoured him with knighthood, presented him with his own picture fet round with diamonds, affigned him a confiderable pension, fat very often to him for his portrait, and was followed by most of the nobility and principal gentry of the kingdom: but towards the latter-end of his life he grew weary of the continued-trouble that attended face-painting; and being ambitious to immortalize his name by fome more glorious undertaking, he went to Paris, in hopes of being employed in the grand gallery of the Louvre; but not fuccceeding in that defign, he returned to Eng and, and made a propofal to the King, by his friend

Sir Kenelm Digby, to form Cartoons for the Banquet ing house at Whitehall, the subject of which was to have been the Inftitution of the Order of the Garter, the Proceffion of the Knights in their habits, with the ceremony of their Instalment, and St. George's feaft: but his demand of 80,ccc/. being thought unreafonable, whilst the King was upon treating with him for a less fum, the gout and other diftempers put an end to that affair, and his life, 1641, in the forty-fecond year of hisage, and his body was interred in St. Paul's. He was low of stature, but well proportioned, very handsome, modeft, and extremely obliging; a great encourager of all who excelled in any art or science, and generous to the very laft degree. He married the daughter of the Lord Ruthven, Earl of Gowry, one of the greatest beauties of the English court, and lived in ftate and grandeur answerable to her birth. His own garb was generally very rich, his coaches and equipage magnificent, his retinue numerous, his table very fplendid, and so much frequented by people of the best quality of both sexes, that his apartments feemed rather to be the court of a prince than the lodgings of a painter. See Mr. Graham's Lives of the Painters.

To my Lord of Leicester, p. 15.

"THE Earl of Leicester was a man of great parts, very converfant in books, and much addicted to the

"mathematicks; and though he had been a foldier, " and commanded a regiment in the service of the "States of the United Provinces, and was afterwards

employed in feveralembaffies, as in Denmark and "in France, was in truth rather a speculative than a "practical man, and expected a greater certitude in "the confultation of business, than the bufinefs of "this world is capable of; which temper proved very "inconvenient to him through the courfe of his life. "He was, after the death of the Earl of Strafford, "by the concurrent kindness and efteem both of "King and Queen, called from his embassy in France "to be Lieutenant of the kingdom of Ireland, and in

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a very short time after unhappily loft that kind"nefs and esteem: and being, about the time of the "King's coming to Oxford, ready to embark at Che. fter for the execution of his charge, he was required

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to attend his Majefty for farther inftructions at "Oxford, where he remained: and though he was of "the council, and sometimes prefent, he defired not "to have any part in the bufinefs, and lay under 'many reproaches and jealoufles which he deferved "not; for he was a man of honour and fidelity to the

King; and his greatest misfortunes proceeded from "the ftaggering and irresolution in his nature." Earl of Clarendon's Hiftory, Book vi.

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To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, p. 18.

THE title of this poem is reprinted here as I find it in the first edition of Mr. Waller. The lady to whom it is addreffed was the Lady Dorothy's younger fifter: fhe was born in the year 1625, and married to Sir. John Pelham, grandfather to his Grace the present Duke of Newcastle.

To Amoret, p. 19.

I REMEMBER to have heard his Grace the late Duke of Buckinghamshire fay, that the perfon whom Mr. Waller celebrated under the title of Amoret was the Lady Sophia Murray.

To my Lord of Falkland, p. 23.

In the beginning of the year 1639, (when Mr. Wals ler was in the thirty-fourth year of his age) King Charles was obliged to raise an army to oppose the Scots in their intended invasion of England, and appointed the Earl of Holland, brother to the foremen tioned Earl of Warwick, to be General of the Horse, which proved of fatal confequence to his Majesty's fervice; for he no sooner brought the troops within view of the rebels, but he made a most shameful retreat, and left his courage, conduct, and fidelity, to be questioned by all men, as their passions or interests inclined them to cenfure." He was a very well-bred

"man, and a fine gentleman in good times, but too "much defired to enjoy cafe and plenty when the

King could have neither, and did think poverty the "most insupportable evil that could befall any man "in this world." And by that bafe maxim he was probably swayed, after he had received many unmerited favours, to abandon his royal benefactor when he most wanted his fervice. But his ingratitude was feverely revenged upon him by the very party to which he revolted: and too late endeavouring to redeem the reputation of loyalty, he fell, unpitied, a facrifice to the fame faction for which, not many years before, he had too wantonly prostituted his honour. In that inglorious northern expedition, which occafioned the writing this poem, he was accompa nied by that great ornament of human nature Lucius Carey, Lord Viscount Falkland, who about four years afterwards was flain at the battle of Newbury;

a person of fuch prodigious parts of learning and "knowledge of that inimitable sweetness and delight * in conversation, of fo flowing and obliging à hu"manity and goodness to mankind, and of that pri mitive fimplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accurfed "civil war than that fingle lofs it must be most infa

mous and execrable to all pofterity." Earl of Clavendon's Hiftory, Book vii..

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