virtues through the clouds of her fortune. To my Loyd's Grace of Canterbury' now being, I leave my pidure of Divine Love, rarely copied from one in the King's galleries, of my prefentation to his Majefty; beseeching him to receive it as a pledge of my humble reverence to his great wisdom. And to the moßt worthy Lord Bishop of London", Lord High Treasurer of England, in true admiration of his Chattian fimplicity and contempt of earthly pomp, I leave a picture of Heraclitus bewailing, and Democritus laughing at, the world: Boût humbly beseeching the laid Lozd Archbishop his Grace, and the Lord Billop of London, of both whose favours I have tafted in my life-time, to intercede with our most gracious Sovereign after my Death, in the bowels of Jesus Christ, that out of compaffionate memoży of my long fervices wherein I more audied the public honour, than mine own utility), fome oder may be taken out of my arrears due in the Exchequer, for fuch fatisfaction of my creditors, as those whom I have o¿dained supervisors of this my laßt Will and Teûament, shall prefent unto their Lordships, without their farther trouble; hoping likewife in his Majelty's most indubitable goodness, that he will keep me from all prejudice, which I may otherwife fuffer by any defect of formality in the demand of my said arrears. To for a poor addition to his cabinet, I leave, as emblems of his attractive virtues and obliging nobleness, my great Loaddone, and a piece of Amber of both kinds naturally united, and only differing in degree of concoction, which is thought fomewhat rare. Item, a piece of Crystal Serangular as they grow all) grafping divers feveral things within it, which I bought among the Rhaetian Alps, in the very place where it grew; recommending moßk humbly Archbishop Laud. " Juxon, Bishop of London, was made Lord High Treasurer of England in 1635, through the interest of Archbishop Laud. humbly unto his Lordship, the reputation of my poor name in the point of my debts, as I have done to the fore-named Spiritual Lords, and am heartily forry that I have no better token of my humble thankfulness to his honoured perfon. Item, I leave to Sir Francis Windebank, one of his Majcay's principal Secretaries of State (whom I found my great friend in point of neceflity) the Four Seasons of old Ballano, to hang near the eye in his parlour (being in little form), which I bought at Wenice, where I first entered into his most worthy acquaintance. To the above-named Dr. Bargiave, Dean of Canterbury, I leave all my Italian books not difpoled in this Will. I leave to him likewife, my Uiol de Gamba, which hath been twice with me in Italy; in which country I first contracted with him an unremovable affection. To my other Supervisor, Mr. Micholas Pry, I leave my Chett, or Cabinet of Intruments and Engines of all kinds of uses: in the lower bor whereof are fome * fit to be bequeathed to none but lo entire an honeft man as he is. I leave him likewife forty pounds for his pains in the folicitation of my Arrears; and am forry that my ragged estate can reach no further to one that hath taken luch care for me in the fame kind, during all my foreign employments. To the Library at Eaton College, I leave all my Banufcripts not before disposed, and to each of the Fellows a plain Ring of gold, enameled black, all fave the verge, with this motto within, AMOR UNIT OMNIA. This is my Lakk Will and Teftament, lave what shall be added by a schedule thereunto annered, written on the art of Daober, in the pzelent year of our Redemp tion, 1637, and lubicribed by myself, with the tellimony of these witnelles. NICH. OUDERT. HENRY WOTTON. Giacomo da Ponte da Baffano, fo called from the place of his birth in the Marca Trevifana, in 1510, was a celebrated artift, who excelled in rural scenery and animals. He died at the age of 82, leaving four fons, two of whom were diftinguished painters. (Dryden's Frefnoy's Art of Painting, p. 290.) * In it were Italian locks, pick-locks, fcrews to force open doors, and many things of worth and rarity, that he had gathered in his foreign travel. AND now, because the mind of man is best satisfied by the knowledge of events, I think fit to declare, that every one that was named in his will did gladly receive their legacies: By which, and his most just and paffionate defires for the payment of his debts, they joined in affifting the overseers of his will; and by their joint endeavours to the King (than whom none was more willing) confcionable fatisfaction was given for his just debts. The next thing wherewith I fhall acquaint the reader is, that he went ufually once a year, if not oftener, to the beloved Bocton-Hall, where he would fay, "He found a cure for all cares, by the cheerful company," which he called "the living furniture of the place:" and "a restoration of "his ftrength, by the connaturalness of" that which he called " his genial "air." He yearly went alfo to Oxford. But the fummer before his death' he changed that for a journey to Winchester college, to which school he was firft removed from Bocton. And as he returned from Winchester towards Eton college, faid to a friend, his companion in that journey, "How useful "was that advice of a holy monk, who perfuaded his friend to perform "bis cuftomary devotions in a conftant place, because in that place we ufually "meet with thofe very thoughts which poffeffed us at our laft being there; and "I find it thus far experimentally true, that at my now being in that school, "and feeing that very place where I fat when I was a boy, occafioned me "to remember those very thoughts of my youth which then poffeffed me: "fweet thoughts, indeed, that promised my growing years numerous plea"fures Ff In this year he wrote his letter to Milton, who then lived near Eton, thanking him for his prefent of "Comus," which he calls "A dainty peece of entertainment; wherein," he adds, "I fhould much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravifh me "with a certain Dorique delicacy in your fongs and odes, whereunto I must plainly con"fefs to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language: ipfa mollities." (Reliq. Wotton. p. 343.) Milton has commended this letter in his "Defenfio Secunda Populi Anglicani." "Abeun-"tem vir clariffimus Henricus Wootonus, qui ad Venetos Orator Jacobi Regis diu fuerat, et " votis et præceptis eunti peregre fane utiliflimis eleganti epiftolâ perfcriptis amiciffimé profe"quutus eft." "fures without mixtures of cares, and those to be enjoyed when time '(which I therefore thought flow paced) had changed my youth into man"hood. But age and experience have taught me that those were but empty hopes; for I have always found it true, as my Saviour did foretel, Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Nevertheless I saw there a fuc"ceffion of boys ufing the fame recreations, and, questionless, poffeffed "with the fame thoughts that then poffeffed me. Thus one generation "fucceeds another, both in their lives, recreations, hopes, fears, and death.” After his return from Winchefter to Eton, which was about five months before his death, he became much more retired and contemplative: in which time he was often vifited by Mr. John Hales (the learned Mr. John Hales), then a fellow of that college, to whom upon an occafion he spake to this purpose: "I have, in my paffage to my grave, met with most of "thofe joys of which a difcourfive foul is capable; and been entertained "with more inferior pleafures than the fons of men are ufually made par"takers of: Nevertheless in this voyage I have not always floated on the "calm fea of content; but have often met with crofs winds and ftorms, "and with many troubles of mind and temptations to evil. And yet, "though I have been and am a man compaffed about with human frailties, "Almighty God hath by his grace prevented me from making shipwreck of faith and a good confcience, the thought of which is now the joy of my "heart; and I most humbly praise him for it: And I humbly acknowledge "that it was not myself, but he that hath kept me to this great age, and let "him take the glory of his great mercy.-And, my dear friend, I now see "that I draw near my harbour of death; that harbour that will fecure me "from all the future ftorms and waves of this reftlefs world; and I praise "God "Ah, happy hills! Ah, pleasing shade ! "Ah, fields belov'd in vain! "Where once my careless childhood stray'd, "A ftranger yet to pain! "I feel the gales that from ye blow "A momentary bliss bestow, "As waving fresh their glad fome wing My weary foul they seem to footh, "And, redolent of joy and youth, GRAY'S Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. "God I am willing to leave it and expect a better; that world wherein "dwelleth righteousness; and I long for it." These and the like expreffions were then uttered by him at the beginning of a feverish distemper, at which time he was also troubled with an asthma or fhort fpitting: But after lefs than twenty fits, by the help of familiar phyfic and a spare diet, this fever abated, yet fo as to leave him much weaker than it found him; and his asthma feemed also to be overcome in a good degree by his forbearing tobacco, which, as many thoughtful men do, he also had taken fomewhat immoderately. This was his then prefent condition, and thus he continued till about the end of October, 1639, which was about a month before his death, at which time he again fell into a fever, which, though he he feemed to recover, yet thefe ftill left him fo weak, that they and those other common infirmities that accompany age, and were wont to visit him like civil friends, and after fome fhort time to leave him, came now both oftener and with more violence, and at laft took up their constant habitation with him, ftill weakening his body and abating his cheerfulness; of both which he grew more fenfible, and did the oftener retire into his study, and there made many papers that had paffed his pen, both in the days of his youth and in the busy part of his life, useless, by a fire made there to that purpose. These, and feveral unusual expreffions to his fervants and friends, feemed to foretel that the day of his death drew near; for which he feemed to thofe many friends that obferved him, to be well prepared, and to be both patient and free from all fear, as feveral of his letters writ on this his laft fick-bed may teftify. And thus he continued till about the beginning of December following, at which time he was seized more violently with a quotidian fever, in the tenth fit of which fever his better part, that part of Sir Henry Wotton which could not die, put off mortality with as much content and cheerfulnefs as human frailty is capable of, being then in great tranquillity of mind, and in perfect peace with God and man*. Ff2 • The following exquifitely beautiful hymn was written by him in his sickness: And "O thou great Power, in whom I move "For whom I live, to whom I die! "Behold me thro' thy beams of love, "Whilft on this couch of tears I lie, " And |