Did he not gladly see how all things shine
Wondrously painted in the mind divine;
Whilst he, for ever ravish'd with the show,
Scorns his own art which we admire below.
Only his beauteous Lady still he loves
(The love of heavenly objects heav'n improves);
He sees bright angels in pure beams appear,
And thinks on her he left so like them here.
And you, fair widow, who stay here alive,
Since he so much rejoices, cease to grieve.
Your joys and griefs were wont the same to be;
Begin not now, blest pair, to disagree.
No wonder death moved not his gen'rous mind,
You, and a new-born you, he left behind.
Even fate express'd his love to his dear wife,
And let him end your picture with his life.

Cowley.

CATALOGUE OF PICTURES.

LIST of PICTURES mentioned by EVELYN as belonging to the CHANCELLOR CLARENDON.

All the late Chancellors and grave Judges in the reigns of

Elizabeth, James, and Charles 1.

Most of which, if not all, are at the present in Cornbury, in Oxfordshire.

LIST of PICTURES missing from the Collection since the Catalogue given by EVELYN in his letter to Pepys.—Vol. iv. p. 306.

Evelyn speaks also of "all the late Chancellors and grave Judges in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and her successors James and Charles I., also of several of the elergy and others of the former and present age." Many of these pictures were missing before the catalogue was made by Lord Hyde's direction in the year 1750.

INVENTORY OF PICTURES belonging to the Right Honourable LORD HYDE, and left, by the permission of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, in the several rooms hereinafter mentioned in his Grace's house, called Blandford House, such rooms lately known by the names following,' viz. :

Lord Clarendon's Bedchamber.