"But why do I upbraid thee, gentle muse, Who for all sorrows mak'st me some amends: Our best physicians and our dearest friends." The following song is added for its feminine delicacy and tenderness : "How hardly I conceal'd my tears? When, many tedious days, my fears Told me I lov'd in vain. "But now my joys as wild are grown, "I tell it to the bleating flocks, To every stream and tree, And bless the hollow murmuring rocks For echoing back to me. "Thus you may see with how much joy We want, we wish, believe; But easy to deceive "." Mr. Ballard found from the parish-register of Winchinden, that lady Wharton died at Atterbury, on the 29th of October 1685.] • From Tooke's Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 3d edit. 1716. ARTHUR ANNESLEY, EARL OF ANGLESEY, WHILE a private young man was engaged on the side of Charles the first, whose party he quitted early to embrace that of the parliament: by them he was intrusted as commissioner of Ulster, where he performed good service to the Protestant cause. Wood says, he took both the covenant and engagement; but the latter is contradicted". It is certain that he seems to have lain by during the reign of Cromwell, and that he was not trusted either by the rump or the army. When the secluded members were restored, he returned to parliament, and was chosen president of the council of state, in which capacity he was active for the Restoration, and was distinguished amongst those who, "coming in at the eleventh hour," received greater wages than men who had lost their all in defending the vineyard. He was made a baron3, • Vide his Life in the Biog. Brit. [In 1661; by the title of lord Annesley, of Newport Pagnel, Bucks. His father had the titles of lord Mountmorris and viscount Valentia in Ireland. Vide Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. P. 789.] |