produced the rebellion, and flaid with them to "fupport it. *** He died in the year 1668, anno ætat. * 66, and was buried, near his fifter, the Countess of "Carlisle, at Petworth, having been the tenth Earl "of his family, and the fixth who had been honour→ "ed with the Garter."

To my LordAdmiral, of his late fickness and recovery,p.10.

THE time and occafion of writing this poem appears to have been when the Earl of Northumberland was appointed General of the English army against the Scots, and excused himself from action by pretending want of health, though his conduct foon afterwards evidenced it was want of inclination to exert that vigour which the King's affairs required, and which, of all men living, he was the most bound by gratitude to have exerted: and therefore we may fuppofe that Mr. Waller made him the compliment of these verses, (a very seasonable one to cover his difaffection) in the latter-end of the year 1640, anno etat. 3. And the death of the Earl's lady being men❤ tioned as if it were ftill green in his memory, the preceding poem was probably written the year before, or perhaps a little earlier.

To Van Dyck, p. 13.

SIR Anthony Van Dyck was born at Antwerp, in the year 1599, and gave fuch early proofs of his most ex

cellent endowments, that Reubens his mafter, fearing he would become as univerfalas himself, to divert him from hiftories, used to commend his talent in painting after the life, and took fuch care to keep him continually employed in business 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 Veronese,

c.; and after a few years fpent in Rome, Genoa, and Sicily, returned home to Flanders, with a manner of painting fo noble, natural, and easy, that Titian himself 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 eftcem for his works, honoured him with knighthood, prefented him with his own picture fet round with diamonds, affigned him a confiderable penfion, 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 glosious 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 Engand, and made a propofal to the King, by his friend

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Sir Kenelm Digby, to form Cartoons for the Banqueting 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,cccl. being thought unreasonable, whilst the King was upon treating with him for a lefs fum, the gout and other distempers put an end to that affair, and his life, 1641, in the forty-second year of his age, and his body was interred in St. Paul's. He was low of ftature, but well proportioned, very handsome, modeft, and extremely obliging; a great encourager of all who excelled in any art or fcience," 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 state 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 fexes, 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

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"mathematicks; and though he had been a foldier, "and commanded a regiment in the fervice of the "States of the United Provinces, and was afterwards "employed in feveral embaffies, 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 business of “this world is capable of; which temper proved very “inconvenient to him through the course 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"ness and esteem: and being, about the time of the “King's coming to Oxford, ready to embark at Che"ster for the execution of his charge, he was required "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 business, and lay under

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many reproaches and jealousies which he deserved **not; for he was a man of honour and fidelity to the

King; and his greatest misfortunes proceeded from "the staggering and irresolution in his nature." Earl of Clarendon's Hiftory, Beok VI.

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 whont 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 prefent 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.

Το my Lord of Falkland, p. 23.

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