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 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, That they become an emblem of your mind; "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 The doom of Fate, whose unrecall'd decree You date, bring, execute; making what's new, "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.] 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, It prov'd thy solemn coronation, since The yard's thy palace, and a glorious prince |