ticularly one o f the celebrated Lucy, Countefs of
full length, in black, with a ruff, and a coronet on her he#
She fits with a penfive countenance, her face reclined on onl
hand, and is, without beauty, an elegant figure. She was
to John Lord Barrington, and wife to Edward Earl of Rmk
and became, on the death of her brother, poffefied of greatp]
of his large fortune. She affe&ed the patronage of an.
poets ; and probably poffeffed part of the qualities they attrl
buted to her, or the philofophic Sir William 'Temple p would new
have condefcended to celebrate her. fine tafte in gardening
might purchafe every perfe&ion from the former ; for
forms us,
ju a word, her ideas became too fublime for domeftic affairs;
Tfpent her own and part of her hufband’s great fortunes, and,
|ig eftabliihed her charafter for tafte, departed this life in
Llear 1628*
daughter and heirefs
lyfe of George Villars, Duke of
of Francis Earl of Rutland,
j. wr" • o kj B*y Vand✓y ck.- She
affedted wits ani^Hpainted fitting with her three children, and the head of the
in an oval above her. She afterwards married the Earl of'
iik “ She was a lady” , fays the noble hiftorian, “ of great wit'
!“ |nd fpirit; who, by her influence over Charles I. forced him,
| Inder pretence of his majefty’s fervice, to gratify her vanity, by-
■reating her hulband a. marquis *.”
T remarkable half length of Mary Stuart, on copper, in a
fce cloak, crown on her head, and-paffion-flower in her hand ;. fickly and pale.
j - Bead of Anne of Denmark. A princefs of fo ipotlefs a life, that
' Biilice could not find a blemilh- in her; therefore well might Wil-
/<»t %, on her monument « ’ .c h a r a c t e r of v i r t u e may be en~
ma. When.Heaven claims her, a living queen cannot efcape
til fame epitaph.
■he Ochil hills begin beyond Alloa to approach 'very near to
■fw/i, between which is a narrow arable tradl, well cultivated
W adorned with woods. In thefe hills was found, in the be-
Spng of this century, a large body of native filver, beautifully ;
Bilied; and of late years, fome cobalt ore.. The view of Stir-
, and the windings of the Forth, now a river,- are extremely
She rained upon Him her fweet fliowers o f gold j :
°n Ben Johnfon, haunches of venifon § ; and they, in gratitudl
beftowed on her as many beauties and as many virtues as ougi
to have put vanity herfelf out of countenance. She makes thj
rough Donne declare,
Lea vin g that J>ufie praife and all appeale,
T o higher courts, fenfes decree is true
T h e mine, the magazine, the commonweale,
. T h e iiory o f beauty; in Tnvickbam is, and you.
Who hath feen one, would both, is who had bin
In Paradife, would feek the Cherubim ||.
* Painted b y Cormliui Janfen, in 1620, in the 38th year o f her age.
t Gardens o f Epicurus.
t A s quoted by Mr. Granger.
J Epigram 85 th.
H, Poems, p. 82. 1 Hill, o f R ebellion, II. 6IS t bife of James I. 1*9;
elegant.
S b e t . 17.