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 of Dr. Lancelot Browne, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth, and I do not think we need go much further in order to picture to ourselves the society in which he lived, that of the ‘old courtiers of the Queen,’ which the old song contrasts, as we do not forget, with that of the ‘King’s young courtiers.’

Still these fancies, though they may serve to please the imagination, and to lend colour to an outhne painfully indistinct, make no real addition to our knowledge of the inner life of Harvey, any more than does the fact that he attended Charles the First’s kinsman, the young Duke of Lennox, to the Continent in 1630; or