from Original Picture in the Collection of the Pub Far1180s, by J.Scott, N17. Strand. DUDLEY, LORD NORTH, 2 THE third baron of this accomplished family, was one of the finest gentlemen in the court of king James; but in supporting that character, dissipated and gamed away the greatest part of his fortune. In 1645, he appears to have acted with the parliament, and was nominated by them to the administration of the admiralty, in conjunction with the great earls of Northumberland, Essex, Warwick, and others. He lived to the age of eighty-five, the latter part of which he passed in retirement, having written a small folio of miscellanies, in prose and verse, under this title, "A Forest promiscuous of several Seasons Productions, in four parts." 1659. fol. The prose, which is affected and obscure, with many quotations and allusions to Scripture and the Classics, consists of essays, letters, 2 [Davies of Hereford addressed a panegyrical epigram, in his Scourge of Folly, to "the truly noble, deservedly al-beloved, the lord North," and exclaimed "Thou art a subject worthy of the muse When most she raignes in height of happinesse, Into whose noble spright the heavens infuse All gifts and graces, gracing noblenesse."] characters in the manner of sir Thomas Overbury, and devout meditations on his misfortunes. The verse, though not very poetic, is more natural, and written with the genteel ease of a man of quality; a specimen of which, being very short, I shall produce. AIR. "So full of courtly reverence, Little more pleasing than neglect. It holds a distance halfe unkind: Such distance between you and mee May suite with yours, not with my mind. Or know, such over-acting spoyles the play." There is one set of a sort of sonnets3, each of which begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. [These sonnets, if so they may be called, form a series of poetical devotions in imitation of the cxixth psalm, and are entitled "Corona." Some introductory lines are addressed “to divinest Herbert," whom the author considers as his pious rival. The poetry of Herbert was more susceptible of rivalry, than his conduct as a parish-priest: yet honest Walton tells us, that no less than 20,000 copies of his poems were sold. There is less reason to wonder, as Mr. Ellis observes, at the popularity of his "Priest to the Temple," a prose work of unpretending practical utility, exhibiting the duties of a character never to be mentioned without respect, that of a conscientious clergyman residing in his parish. See Specimens, vol. iii. p. 125.] teen. [This nobleman succeeded his grandfather, Roger, second lord North, Dec. 3, 1600, at the age of nineHe married Frances, daughter and coheir of sir John Brocket, of Brocket-hall, Herts, and was a person, says his grandson, Roger North, "full of fire and spirit; yet after he had consumed the greatest part of his estate in the gallantries of king James's court, or rather of his son prince Henry's, retired and lived more honourably in the country upon what was left, than ever he had done before." 4 Brydges' Memoirs of the Peers of England, vol. i. p. 343. To this nobleman is attributed the discovery of the medicinal springs at Tunbridge-Wells, and his manner of doing it is thus related in Burr's Historical Account of that place: "Lord North, in 1605, having reached his twenty-fourth year, fell into a consumptive disorder that baffled the utmost effort of medicine; in this melancholy situation it became necessary for him to live more regularly than he yet had done; and his physicians advised him to retire into the country, and try the efficacy of that last remedy, change of air, for the re-establishment of his constitution. In consequence of this advice, his lordship, in the spring of the year 1606, made Eridge-house the place of his retreat, about two miles distant from Tunbridge-wells; but after a residence of several weeks, finding his disorder rather increased than diminished, and his spirits greatly lowered, he abruptly quitted this retired mansion, and began his journey to London. Fortunately, adds the narrator, his road lay directly through the wood in which these useful springs were concealed from the knowledge of mankind; so that when his lordship came upon the spot he could not well pass by without taking notice of a |