Fate hath done mankinde wrong; Vertue may aim
Reward of conscience, never can, of fame;
Since her great trumpet's broke, could onely give
Faith to the world, command it to beleeve:
Hee then must write, that would define thy parts,
Here lyes the best divinitie—all the arts.

EDW. HYDE 1."

At the death of Dr. Donne, Mr. Hyde could not be more than twenty-three; dazzled, therefore, by the false taste of the poet he celebrated, his verses exhibit a servile imitation of that laboured wit, tortured sentiment, and inharmonious chime, which constituted what Dr. Johnson happily termed "metaphysical poetry."]

7 In a casual conversation with the observant Mr. Reed, before this sheet proceeded to press, he suggested a slight doubt whether these pieces of poetry attached to chancellor Clarendon; it being possible that they might belong to E. Hyde, a contributor to Cambridge Verses in 1635, whereas lord Clarendon was an Oxford man? This is a family appeal, which some abler genealogist must be left to decide upon.

ANNE COUNTESS of DORSET & PEMBROKE,

from a Painting in Miniature by Crias Humphry Esq. RA after the Original at Knowle.

ANNE,

COUNTESS OF DORSET

AND

PEMBROKE.

THIS high-born and high-spirited lady was heiress of the Cliffords, earls of Cumberland, and was first married to Richard, earl of Dorset, whose life and actions she celebrated. Her second match was not so happy, being soon parted from her lord, that memorable simpleton Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, with whom Butler has so much diverted himself. Anne the countess was remarkably religious, magnificent, and disposed to letters. She erected a pillar in the county of Westmor

• The first wife of this earl was Susan, daughter of the earl of Oxford. I find a book set forth in her name, called "The Countess of Montgomery's Eusebia, expressing briefly the Soul's praying Robes, by Newton, 1620." Vide Harl. Catal. vol. i. p. 100. [This earl, says Osborn, left nothing to testify his manhood but a beard, and children by that daughter of the last great earl of Oxford, whose lady was brought to his bed under the notion of his mistress, and from such a virtuous deceit she is said to proceed. In No. 412 of the Harl. Catal. a copy of Webb's Antiquities of Stonehenge is described with Notes, by Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.]

land, on the spot 3 where she took the last leave of her mother; a monument to her tutor Samuel Daniel, the poetic historian; another to Spenser; founded two hospitals, and repaired or built seven churches and six castles". She wrote

"Memoirs of her Husband Richard Earl of Dorset ;" never printed.

"Sundry Memorials of herself and her Progenitors."

And the following letter to sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state to Charles the second, who having sent to nominate to her a member for the borough of Appleby, she returned this resolute answer, which, though

" ["On the road-side between Penrith and Appleby," say! an elegant modern poet; who has directed " Attention's lifted eye to

That modest stone which pious Pembroke rear'd;
Which still records, beyond the pencil's power,

The silent sorrows of a parting hour,

Still to the musing pilgrim points the place,

Her sainted spirit most delights to trace."

Rogers's Pleasures of Memory. See art. of Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, vol. ii. p. 168.] + Vide Ballard, and Memorials of Worthy Persons, p. 92, and 94. [Her friends advised her to be less lavish in building castles during the protectorate of Cromwell, as there was reason to fear that, when rebuilt, orders would be sent to demolish them; but she replied, "Let him destroy them if he will; he shall surely find as often as he does so I will rebuild them, while he leaves me a shilling in my pocket."]