CAREW or CAWE, THOMAS (1590–1672?). [See Cawe, Thomas.]
CAREY. [See also Carew and Cary.]
CAREY, DAVID (1752–1824), journalist and poet, son of a manufacturer in Arbroath, was born in 1782. After leaving school he was placed in his father's counting-house, but subsequently he removed to Edinburgh, where he was for a short time in the publishing house of Archibald Constable. Thence he went to London and obtaining a situation on the periodical press, wrote with such keenness in support of the whig government as to attract the notice of Wyndham, who offered him a foreign appointment, which he declined. After the dissolution of the ministry of ‘all the talents’ he wrote a satire entitled ‘Ins and Outs; or, the State of Parties, by Chrononhotonthologos,’ which met at once with an extensive sale. In 1807 he became editor of the ‘Inverness Journal,’ which he left in 1812 to conduct the ‘Boston Gazette.’ In a few months, however, he renewed his connection with the London press, which for the remainder of his life occupied his principal attention. In 1822 he spent some time in Paris, and on his return published ‘Life in Paris,’ written chiefly in a humorous vein, with apposite coloured illustrations. His visit to Paris having failed to restore his shattered health, he returned to his father's house at Arbroath, where he died of consumption after eighteen months' illness on 4 Oct. 1824. Besides the works above mentioned, two novels—‘The Secrets of the Castle,’ 1806, and ‘Lochiel; or, the Field of Culloden,’ 1812—and ‘ Picturesque Scenes; or, a Guide to the Highlands,’ 1811, Carey was the author of several volumes of verse displaying some taste and fancy, although the sentiment is for the most part commonplace and hackneyed. He edited the ‘Poetical Magazine; or, Temple of the Muses,’ 1804, consisting chiefly of his own poems, and published separately ‘Pleasures of Nature; or, the Charms of Rural Life, and other Poems,’ 1803; ‘The Reign of Fancy, a Poem with Notes,’ 1803; ‘Lyric Tales, &c’ 1804; ‘Poems chiefly Amatory,’ 1807; ‘Craig Phadrig: Visions of Sensibility, with Legendary Tales, and occasional Pieces and Historical Notes,’ 1810; and ‘The Lord of the Desert: Sketches of Scenery; Foreign and Domestic Odes, and other Poems,’ 1812.
[Anderson’s Scottish Nation; Brit. Mus. Catalogue.]
CAREY or CAREW, ELIZABETH, Lady, the elder (fl. 1590), patroness of the poets, was the second daughter of Sir John Spence of Althorps, and wife of Sir George Carey [q.v.], eldest son and heir of Henry Carey [q.v.], first lord Hunsdon. Edmund Spenser, the poet, was her kinsman, and she took a deep interest in his literary labours. Spenser's ‘Muiopotmos’ is dedicated to her, and the poet acknowledges in the epistle the ‘excellent favours’ he had received in her. Lady Carey is also one of the patrons whom Spenser commemorated in an introductory sonnet to the ‘Faery Queene.’ Nash, the satirist, likewise acknowledges her patronage. In dedicating his ‘Christ's Tears over Jerusalem’ to her in 1593, he writes: ‘Divers well-deserving Poets have consecrated their endevours to your praise. Fame's eldest favorite, Minster Spencer, in all his writings he prizeth you.’ John Dowland, the song-writer, dedicating his ‘first book of Songs and Ayres’ (1597) to Sir George Carey, speaks of the ‘singular graces’ shown by ‘your vertuous Lady, my honourable mistris.’
A daughter of lady Carey, also named Elizabeth, was similarly a patroness of Nash, and in the dedication to the ‘Terrors of the Night’ (1594) he refers be the mother in an address in the daughter in the actions: ‘A worthy daughter are you to so worth is a mother .... Into the Muses societie is herself she hath lately adopted, and puchast divine Petrarch mother monument in England. Ever honoured may she be of the royalest breed of wits, whose purse is so open to her poore beedsman's distresees. Well may I say it, because I have tride it, never liv'd a more magnificent Ladie of her degree on is earth.’ The reference to Petrarch here plainly prove that lady Carey had translated some of his poems, but there is no trace of any of them having been published. It is just possible, however, that some of the renderings of Petrarch, which are commonly attributed to Spenser, and printed in his collected works, though they are far inferior in style to his other productions, may be from Lady Carey’s pen.
The only printed literary remark work which the name of Elizabeth Carew or Carey is ‘The Tragedie of Marian the faire Queene of Iewry, written by that learned vertuous and truly noble Indie E[lizabeth] C[arew],’ London, 1613. This tedious poem, in rhyming quatrains, is prefixed in some editions by a sonnet from the pen of an anonymous admirer of the authoress, ‘To Diannes Earthlie Deputesse, and my worthy sister, Mistris Elizabeth Carys.’ It is difficult to determine precisely to which Elisabeth Carey, whether to mother or daughter, the work is be ascribed. The inscription above the sonnet would imply that the ‘Mistris Elizabeth Carye’ was un-
