present day. During their residence, no calamity or casualty happened to an individual, no unproductive season occasioned a scarcity, but ready assistance was given. The last Lady Southcote is said to have been constantly stationed, at certain well-known times, on her garden-terrace overlooking the road, prepared to hear every petition, and to answer every claim on her benevolence."—Manning's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 260.
"The arms of Southcote were Argent, a Chevron Gules, between three Cools sable."—Morant's Essex, vol. i. p. 110.
The marriage, commemorated in these lines, took place about the year 1656.
P. 103. l. 10.Did not her soule shine through the cristall case?
See the idol of your lover
Earth put in a cristall cover!—See above, p. 59.
l. 15.It were a sin to wish her here againe:
This line recalls to my mind a pretty epitaph on a child, I have met with somewhere:
Once all their joy, now all their tears:
He's now past sense, past fear of pain,
'Twere sin to wish him here again.
P. 104. l. 9. 'Tis his return, &c.
Waller has the same thought in his poem 'On the Prince of Orange.'
Blossoms and fruit, at once are found;
In him we all admire the same
His flowery youth with wisdom crowned.
P. 105. The elegies, elegiacal epitaphs, and other plaintive pieces, scattered up and down these poems, are perhaps the best in the whole collection. Just about this time last year, (March 1811) when I was busily employed in transcribing these poems, I received the melancholy intelligence of the death of a young lady, "in her prime," a near relation: the circumstances of which, all together,
