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| having too great a heart to be susceptible of love.' For the criticism, half admiring, half scandalized, of a younger woman, see Dorothy Osborne's letters, ed. Parry, pp. 171, 180. | ||
| 11. | l. 83. | Wat Montague]. Second son of Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester. He became a Romanist in 1635, was banished in 1649, and became Abbot, first of Nanteuil, then of St. Martin's in Pontoise. His pastoral (l. 86) was The Shepherd's Paradise, acted in 1632-33 by the Queen and the Maids of Honour before Charles I. It was printed in 1659. See Maidment and Logan's D'Avenant, i. 283, for a letter by John Pory, dated 3 Jan., 1633, in which this masque is mentioned. |
| l. 92. | little Cid] Aubrey, loc. cit., ii. 209, has a note on Richard Sackville, fifth Earl of Dorset, relative to his father, the fourth Earl: ''Twas he that translated The Cid, a French comoedie, into English about 1640.' The translation of Corneille's Cid, the first part of which appeared in 1637, was actually by Joseph Rutter, tutor to the Earl. Aubrey's informant was Samuel Butler. Sackville, in 1637, was only in his fifteenth year; but, the year after, he contributed verses to Jonsonius Virbius. Did Suckling know of Rutter's authorship, or was Sackville, the supposed author, here called 'little' on the ground of his youth? | |
| l. 95. | Murray] Hazlitt says 'William Murray.' Possibly William Murray, gentleman of the bedchamber, created Earl of Dysart in 1643. He is mentioned in the letter printed in the Appendix. The allusion here is not clear. | |
| 12. | l. 97. | Hales] The 'ever-memorable' John Hales, fellow of Eton, to whom Suckling addressed an epistle, pp. 27, 28 below. Aubrey, loc. cit., i. 278-281, quotes these lines inaccurately to support the statement: 'He was a generall scolar, and I beleeve a good poet.' |
| l. 102. | He was of late, etc.] Aubrey, loc. cit., i. 150, 151, mentions Falkland's addiction to Socinianism, and says: 'He was the first Socinian in England.' In another place, he ascribes this priority to Hales. Aubrey had been informed that Falkland was responsible for the title of Jonsonius Virbius, in |
