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 ^n ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.


 * fond parting with him, when he ' your Majefty's beauty. T


 * fet out for Ireland, pierced his ' her brother's life, his love,

That piercea nis • ner orotner s Jirc, nis love, hi« very foul.' In a few weeks flie • fervices to \\cx beauties ii\^ not de- quarrelled with him for demanding * ferve fo hard a punifhment.— — a poor fupply of one thoufand foot * That he would be difabled from

' defs ! whofe excellent beauties ' and perfefiions ought to feel more ' compafTion.' Whenever the wea- ther would permit, fhe gave audi-
 * ever ferving again his facred God-

a poor fupply

and three hundred .horfe *.

Having pretty clearly afcertained the exigence of the fentiment, it feems that the earl's ruin was in great meafure owing to the little

homage he paid to a fovereign ence in the garden ; her lines were jealous of his perfon and of her ftrong, and in open day-light the own, and not accuftomed to pardon (hades had lefs force. Vertue the the want of a proper degree of engraver had a pocket-book of Ifaac awe and adoration! Before his Oliver, in which the latter had made voyage to Ireland, fhe had treated a memorandum thatthequeen would him as flie did the fair Mrs. Bridges not let him give any fhade to her in fliort, had given him a features, teilini? him, ' That (hade

box on the ear, for turning his back on her in contempt. VVhat mull fhe have felt on hearing he had (aid


 * That (he grew old and cankered,


 * and that her mind was become as

crovocation to a woman fo dif-
 * crooked as her carcafe!' What

' was an accident, and not natu- • rally-exifting in a face.' Her por- traits are generally without any (hadow. I have in my po(reiTion anotlier ftrongly prefumptive proof of this weakne(s : It is a fragment of one of her lad broad pieces, re-

poftd to believe all the flattery of prefenting her horridly old and de- her court ! How did (he torture formed: An entire coin vvith this Melville to make him prefer her image is not known : It is univer-

beauty to his charming queen's! Ellzaiseth's foible about her perfon was fo well known, that when (he was fixty-feven, Veriken the Dutch embaiTador told her at his audience,

fally f fuppofed that the die was broken by her command, and that fome workman of the mint cut out this morfel, which coniains barely the face. As it has never been en-


 * That he had longed to undertake graved, fo fjngular a curiofuy may

that voyage to fee her majefty,


 * who for beauty and wifdom ex-


 * celled all other princes of the

Kffex's fifter. Lady Rich, inter- ceding for him, tells her majefly,
 * world.' The next year Lord


 * Early did 1 hope this morning to


 * have had mine eyes ble(red with

have its merit, in a work which has no other kind of merit %.

On whatever her favour was founded, it was by no me?ns plac- ed undefervedly : The earl's cou- rage was i.Tipetuous and heroic ; To this was added great talents for the (late, great afiection for

friend the Earl of Southampton of the gener?.!Oup of the horfe, uhich the earl had conferreil on liim.
 * She even mortified liim fo bitterly, as to oblige him to ciifpoTe s his depj:

■\ This piece was purchafcd irom the cabinet of the late Earl of Oxford.

X This engraving is in vol. i. p. 14.2, of the Catalogue of Royal and Nobie Authors.

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