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These pieces were printed in 1647, with a longer, thus entitled:

"Hæred. ac Nepot. suis Præcepta et Consilia E. B. H. de C. & C. 1. de K."

The quarto tract which contains them is preserved in the Bridgewater library, and perhaps in that alone.

His lordship's scarce volume of "Occasional Poems," consists chiefly of metaphysical love-verses; ingenious, but unnatural; platonic in sentiment, but frequently gross in expression; and marked by an eccentricity which pervaded the life and character of lord Herbert. Two short effusions, however, may not be unacceptable.

"TO A YOUNG PALE BEAUTY.

"From thy pale look while angry love doth seem
With more imperiousness to give his law,
Than where he blushingly doth beg esteem;
We may observe py'd beauty in such aw,
That the brav'st colour under her command
Affrighted, oft before you doth retire;
While, like a statue of yourself you stand
In such symmetrique form, as doth require

6 Granger has aptly described lord Herbert as a man who was at once wise and capricious; who redressed wrongs, and quarrelled for punctilios; hated bigotry in religion, and was himself a bigot to philosophy; exposed himself to such dangers as other men of courage would have carefully declined; and called in question the fundamentals of a religion, which none had the hardiness to dispute besides himself. Biog. Hist. vol. ii. p. 146.

CA

No lustre but its own: as, then, in vain,
One should flesh colouring to statues add;
So were it to your native white a stain
If it in other ornaments were clad,
Than what your rich proportions do give,
Which in a boundless fair being unconfin'd,
Exalted in your soul, so seem to live,

That they become an emblem of your mind;
That so, who to your orient white should joyn
Those fading qualities most eyes adore,
Were but like one who gilding silver coin,
Gave but occasion to suspect it more."

"TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP. "Uncessant minutes, whil'st you move you tell The time that tells our life, which though it run Never so fast or farr, your new begun

Short steps shall overtake for though life well
May scape his own account, it shall not yours.
You are Death's auditors, that both divide
And summ whatere that life inspir'd endures,
Past a beginning; and through you we bide

The doom of Fate, whose unrecall'd decree

You date, bring, execute; making what's new,
Ill; and good, old; for as we die in you,
You die in time, time in eternity."

"A Dialogue on Education,"

attributed to lord Herbert, was published in 1768, 4to. and several of his lordship's letters may be found among the Harleian manuscripts.]

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ARTHUR LORD CAPEL, From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Earl of Essex.

Pub May 20 1806. by J. Scott 442.Strand.

ARTHUR,

LORD CAPEL.

Ir was a remarkable scene exhibited on the scaffold on which lord Capel fell: at the same time was executed the once gay, beautiful, gallant earl of Holland, whom neither the honours showered on him by his prince, nor his former more tender connexions with the queen, could preserve from betraying and engaging against both. He now appeared sunk beneath the indignities and cruelty he received from men to whom and from whom he had deserted-while the brave Capel, who, having shunned the splendour of Charles's fortunes, had stood forth to guard them on their decline, trod the fatal stage with all the dignity of valour and conscious integrity 3.

⚫ [So said the anonymous author of a poem in Vaticinium Votivum, entitled, "Obsequies on that unexemplar Champion of Chivalrie, and Pattern of true Prowess, Arthur, Lord Capel:

"The scaffold turn'd a stage: where, 'tis confest,
The last act, though most bloodie, prov'd thy best:

It prov'd thy solemn coronation, since

The yard's thy palace, and a glorious prince

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