But true love is a durable fire The Answer to the Lie. [From the Ashmolean MSS.] COURT's scorn, state's disgracing, Erroris Responsio. [From the Ashmolean MSS.] COURT's commender, state's maintainer, Age's rewarder, honour's strengthener, Beauty's guarder, favour's lengthener, Physic's desirer, law's follower, Fortune's blamer, nature's observer, Justice' proclaimer, friendship's preserver : Such is the author, such is the song, Epitaph on Secretary Cecil. [See Osborne's Traditional Memoires, 1658. p. 89, and Oldys's Life, p. 424.] HERE lies Hobinall our pastor while ere, That once in a quarter our fleeces did shear; To please us, his cur he kept under clog, He first gave a trifle, then offer'd up us: A Riddle. [From a MS. in the Bodleian written about 1589.] Th' offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace, Is the gentleman's name with th' effeminate face. The Answer. id est RAWLEY. The word of denial, and the letter of fifty, Is the gentleman's name that will never be thrifty. id est NOWELL. APPENDIX. ACCOUNT OF SIR WALTER RALEGH. HE [From Aubrey's MSS. in the Ashmolean Museum.] E was a tall, handsome, and bold man; but his næve was, that he was damnable proud. Old Sr. Robert Harley, of Brampton-Brian Castle, (who knew him,) would say, 'twas a great question, who was the proudest, Sr. W. or St. Thomas Overbury, but the difference that was, was judged on Sr. Tho. side. He had 2 wives; his first was 2d. Throckmorton ; . mother of Carew Ralegh, 2d son. Sr. Carew Ralegh a, of Downton, in com. Wilts, was his eldest brother, who was gentleman of the horse to sir Jo. Thynne, of Longleate, and after his death maried his lady ; by whom he had children as in the pedigree. Walter and Tom, his gr. children, say that sir Carew was the elder knight. I have heard my grandfather say, that St. Carew had a delicate cleare voice, and played singularly well on the olpharion, (wch was the instrument in fashion in those dayes,) to which he did sing. His grand-children, Walter and Tom (with whom I went to schoole at Blandford, in Dorset. 4 yeares,) had also excellent tuncable voices, and played their parts well on the violin; ingeniose, but all proud and quarrelsome. Sir Walter Ralegh was of. hoc A. Wood's Antiquities. in Oxford. Vide de He went into Ireland, where he served in the warres, and Mem. He made an excellent cordiall, good in feavers, &c. Mr. R. Boyle has the rec. and makes it, and does great cures with it. 'Tis as big as a lute, but flatt-bellyed, with wire strings. RALEGH, MISC. WORKS. 3 в shewed much courage and conduct, but he would be perpetually differing with . . . I thinke, Gray, then Ld deputy; so that at last the hearing was to be at councill table before the Q. wch was wt he desired, where he told his tale so well, and with so good a grace and presence, that the Q. tooke especiall notice of him, and presently preferred him. So that it must be before this that he served in the French warres. He was a second with the earle of Oxford in a duell. Was acquainted and respected with all the hero's of our nation in his time. Sir Walt. Long, of Draycot (gr. father to this Sr. James Long) maried a daughter of sir Jo. Thynne, by which meanes, and their consimility of disposition, there was a very conjunct friendship between the two brothers Sr. C. and St. W. and him; and old John Long, who then wayted on Sr. W. Long, being one time in the privy-garden with his master, saw the earle of Nottingham wipe the dust from sir Walter R.'s shoes with his cloake, in compliment. In the great parlour at Downton, at Mr. Ralegh's, is a good piece (an originall) of sir W. in a white sattin doublet, all embrodered with rich pearles, and a mighty rich chaine of great pearles about his neck. The old servants have told me, that the pearles were neer as big as the painted ones. He had a most remarkable aspect, an exceeding high forehead, long-faced, and sour eie-lidded, a kind of pigge-eie. At. . . . an obscure taverne, in Drury-lane, (a bayliff's,) is a good picture of this worthy, and also of others of his time; taken upon some execution, I suppose, formerly. I have heard my gr. mother say, that when she was young, they were wont to talk of this rebus, viz. "The enemie to the stomach, and the word of disgrace, "Is the name of the gentleman with a bold face c." He was the first that brought tobacco into England, and into fashion. In our part of North Wilts,-e. g. Malmesbury hundred, it came first into fashion by S. Walter Long. They had first silver pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnut-shell and a strawe. I have heard my gr. father - Lyte say, that one pipe was handed from man to man round about the table. S. W. R. standing in a stand at Sr. Ro. S1. Poyntz parke, at Acton, tooke a pipe of tobacco, wch made the ladies quitt it till he had donne. Within these 35 years 'twas scandalous for a divine to take tobacco. It was sold then for its wayte in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbours (Josias Taylor) say, that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco; now, the customes of it are the greatest his majtie hath. Sir Walter R. was a great chymist, and amongst some MSS. receipts, I have seen some secrets from him. He studyed most in his sea-voyages, where he carried always a trunke of bookes along with him, and had nothing to divert him. A person so much immerst in action all along, and in fabrication of his owne fortunes (till his confinement in the Tower) could have but little time to study, but what he could spare in the morning. He was no slug; without doubt, had a wonderfull waking spirit, and great judgment to guide it. Durham-house was a noble palace; after he came to his greatness he lived there, or in some apartment of it. I well remember his study, wch was on a little turret, that looked into and over the Thames, and had the prospect, wch is pleasant, perhaps, as any in the world, and which not only refreshes the eie-sight, but cheers the spirits, and (to speake my mind) I believe enlarges an ingeniose man's thoughts. Shirburne castle, parke, mannor, &c. did belong (and still ought to belong) to the church of Sarum. "Twas aliened in . . . time to ..... then . . . . . then sir W. R. begged as a bôn from Q. Eliz. where he built a delicate lodge in the parke of brick, not big, but very convenient for ye bignesse, a place to retire from the court in summer time, and to contemplate, &c. Upon his attainder, 'twas begged by the favourite Carr, E. of Somerset, who forfeited it (I thinke) about the poysoning of sir Tho. Overbury; then Jo. E. of Bristowe had it given him for his good ser |