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“is, that the Cardinal, (Mazarine) for fix months “together, had not ordered her any money towards "her penfion: that no trades-people would truft "her for any thing, and that there was not at her ❝ lodgings in the Louvre one fingle billet.*** I re"membered the condition I had found her in, and "had ftrongly represented the shame of abandoning "her in that manner, which caused the parliament

(of Paris) to fend 40,000 livres to her Majesty." Pofterity will hardly believe that a princefs of England, grand-daughter to Henry theGreat, hath wanted a faggot, in the month of January, to get out of bed in the Louvre, and in the eyes of a French court!

A panegyrick to my Lord Protector, Sc, p. 45. UPON the detection of Mr. Waller's defign to promote the king's fervice in the City, (of which the Earl of Clarendon has given a large account in the feventh book of his Hiftory of the Rebellion) Whitelocke informs us, that “he obtained a reprieve from "General Effex; and after a year's imprisonment "he paid a fine of 10,000 7, was pardoned, and tra "velled into France;" where, having continued for about ten years, upon his friends application to Cromwell, who had then folely engroffed the enflaving of the nation, he was permitted to return; and about the year 1654, anno ætat. 49, he expreffed his grati tude to the Ufurper in this admirable panegyrick.

To the King, upon his Majesty's happy return, p. 53.

THE date of this poem coincides with the fifty-fifth year of Mr. Waller's age, from which time his genius began to decline apace from its meridian: yet, whatever traces of old age may appear in his latter compofitions, (as Longinus fays of Homer) we must still confefs it to be the old age of Mr. Waller.

-Cognofcite, Teucri!

Quæ fuerint illi juvenili in corpore vires.

We are told in the Menagiana, that when he prefented this poem to the King, his Majesty said, he thought it much inferiour to his panegyrick on Cromwell." Sir," replied Mr. Waller, we poets "never fucceed fo well in writing truth as in fiction."

To the Queen, upon her Majefty's birthday, Sc. p 57. QUEEN Catharine, Infanta of Portugal, was born on the 14th of November, N. S. 1638, but her birthday was observed in England on the 25th of that month, agreeable to the old method of computation; on which day Mr. Waller prefented this poem to her Majefty, foon after her recovery from a dangerous fever, anno Dom. 1663, ætat. fuæ $8.

This poem concludes that edition which was printed in the year 1664, at which time Mr. Waller ex

preffed his refolution to hang up his harp, by subfcribing these two verfes from Horace, lib, i. ep. 1.

Nunc itaque et verfus, et cætera ludicra pono;

I.

Quid verum, atque decens curo, et rogo, et omnis in hoc fam. But fince he foon relapfed into poetry, I thought it would not be very material to preserve them any longer in their ufual flation. It appears, from the date in the title of this poem, that Mr. Waller wrote and prefented it to the Queen, anno ætat. 78.

To the Duchefs of Orleans, Te. p.59.

THE Princess Henrietta Maria, youngest daughter of K. Charles I. was born at Exeter on the 16th of June 1644: When she was about two years old the was privately conveyed into France, as hath already been obferved in the Remarks on the poem to the Countess of Morton; where, foon after the restoration, fhe was married to the French King's only brother, Philip Duke of Anjou, who fucceeded to the title of Orleans on the death of his uncle. But, alas!

Eumenides tenuere faces de funere raptas,
Eumenides ftravere torum.

She is faid to have been extremely beautiful; and even Burnet confeffeth that she was thought the wittieft woman in France, though soon afterward, repenting of his ingenuity, he takes fome pains to poifon her reputation, Being prevailed upon by the

French king to endeavour to engage her brother, King Charles II. in a league with him to humble the Dutch, she arrived at Dover about the middle of May 1670, where the ftaid fomething more than a fortnight, and was entertained by all her royal relations, attended with the flower of the English court, with all poffible demonftrations of joy, during which time a fcheme against Holland was concerted. Her hufband, while fhe was abfent, either wrought upon by the weakness and malice of his own nature, or the wicked infinuations of others, contracted an ill opini on of her conjugal virtue, fo that nothing but her blood could extinguish his jealoufy; and accordingly, foon after her return to St. Cloud, she was dispatched by a dofe of fublimate given her in a glass of succory water, when the had just completed the twenty-fixth year of her age. During her torments, which for about ten hours were violent, she expressed great refignation, and told the Duke of Orleans, that "fhe "was the willinger to die, because her confcience

upbraided her with nothing ill in her conduct to"wards him." After fuch a declaration of her innocence made in the very article of death, it ill became a Christian bishop to impeach her fidelity. Mr. Waller writ this poem, anno ætat. 65.

SONG.

Stay, Phœbus! fay, p. 67.

THE famous Philip de Mornay was a favourite and privy counsellor to Henry IV. of France, till that monarch revolted to the Romish communion, from whom, Isuppose the lady to whom thisfongisaddressed was defcended; and he probably was one of Queen Henrietta's attendants, who upon the misbehaviour of Madame St. George and the Bishop of Mende, were obliged to quit both the English court and kingdom, in the year 1627; but this I offer purely as a conjecture of my own, and refer it to the reader's difcretion to receive or reject it. The latter stanza of these verfes (which are certainly of Mr. Waller's earliest production) alludes to the Copernican system,in which the earth is supposed to be a planet, and to move on its own axis found the fun, the centre of the universe. Dr. Donne and Mr. Cowley induftriously affected to entertain the fair fex with fuch philofophical allusions, which, in his riper age, Mr. Waller as industriously avoided.

EPIGRAMS, EPITAPH^, AND FRAGMENTS.

Epigram upon the golden medal, p. 81.

THE title of this epigram is fo concife, that it renders the conclufion of it almost as obfcure as any paf

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