Long may he round about him see His roses and his lilies blown; Long may his only dear and he Joy in ideas of their own, And kingdom's hopes so timely sown. Long may they both contend to prove, TO MY LORD THE KING. ON THE CHRISTENING HIS SECOND SON, JAMES. 122 That thou art loved of God, this work is done, are Princes Great aids to empire, as they are great care This day, by baptism, and a Saviour's cross: 122 Afterwards James II. Born October 15, 1633.-B. AN ELEGY ON THE LADY JANE PAWLET, MARCHIONESS OF WINTON. 123 What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Stiff, stark, my joints 'gainst one another knock! He's good as great. I am almost a stone, 123 The Lady Jane Pawlet was the first wife of the fifth Marquis of Winchester, who obtained so much celebrity in the civil wars by his memorable defence of Basing-House, his residence in Hampshire, which he garrisoned at his own cost, and held against the forces of the Parliament for two years. At last it fell before Cromwell, who levelled it to the ground. The plunder of Basing-House was estimated at the value of two hundred thousand pounds. The Marquis survived to participate in the triumph of the Restoration, and, dying in 1674, was buried at Englefield in Berkshire, where an inscription by Dryden appears upon his monument. — B. 124 "What gentle ghost along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade." POPE, On an Unfortunate Lady. -- B. 125 Rock Savage was the name of the seat in Cheshire of the Marchioness of Winchester's family. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Savage, who was created Viscount Savage, Alas, I am all marble! write the rest Thou wouldst have written, Fame, upon my breast; It is a large fair table, and a true, And the disposure will be something new, Sound thou her virtues, give her soul a name. of Rock Savage, in November, 1626. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Thomas, Lord Darcy, of Chiche, afterwards in succession created Viscount Colchester, and Earl Rivers. Hence Jonson speaks of her as "Earl Rivers' grandchild." - B. Else, who doth praise a person by a new, Were like a ring of virtues 'bout her set, tempt! Just as she in it lived, and so exempt 126 From all affection! when they urged the cure 127 126 Howell in a letter to the marchioness alludes to her accomplishments, her knowledge of Spanish, which he assisted in teaching her, and her skill in poetry, and says that Nature and the Graces had exhausted all their resources in "framing this exact model of female perfection."— B. 127 Charles, who on his father's death succeeded to the title, and, in 1689, was created Duke of Bolton. - B. Made her friends' joys to get above their fears, And in her last act taught the standers-by With admiration and applause to die! 128 Let angels sing her glories, who did call Who saw the way was made it, and were sent And now through circumfusèd light she looks 128 It appears from Milton's affecting epitaph on this lady, that she died in childbirth, at the early age of three-andtwenty; and the following passage intimates that the child was still-born : "Once had the early matrons run To greet her of a lovely son; And now with second hope she goes, And calls Lucina to her throes. But, whether by mischance or blame, Atropos for Lucina came; Spoiled at once both fruit and tree. The hapless babe before his birth, Had burial, yet not laid in earth; "It is remarkable," says Warton, "that both husband and wife should have severally received the honor of an epitaph from two such poets as Milton and Dryden." This statement might have been rendered still more "remarkable," if Warton had not forgotten to include the elegy by Jonson.-B. |