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piler of thefe anecdotes,) is enriched with a plate, thus properly defcribed
by the ingenious CLiFtoRDiENSis, in the Gent's. Mag. ut fupra.
An elegant fancy figure of Lucafta fitting under a tree, defigned by Sir
Peter Lely, and quite in his flyle, with his name thus, P. Lilly Imo. IP.
Faithorne Jculp. Paris.
After the death of K. Charles I. Lovelace was fet at liberty ; but,
having by that time confumed all his effate, he fell into a deep melancholy,
which brought on a confumption, and made him as poor in perfon as in
purfe : till he became f“O pittious work of Mutab<litie !”J the objedt
even of common charity ! He, who in his days of gallantry wore cloth of
gold, was now, or naked, or half-covered only with filthy rags’ hr, who
had thrown fplendor on palaces, now fhrunk into obfcure and dirty alleys!
and he, who had affbciated with princes, banquetted on dainties, been the
patron of the indigent, the admiration of the wife and brave, the darling
of the chafleand fair, was now “ fain' to herd with beggars, gladly partake
of their coarfe offals, and thankfully receive their twice-given alms 1
“ fo hovel him with fwine, and rogues forlorn,
“ In floort and mufty Jlraw I ’*

Shakfpeare’s K. Lear.
Worn out with mifery, he at length expired in 16 ;8, at a very mean
lodging in Gunpowder-Alley, near Shoe-Lane; and was buried at the weft
end of St. Bride’s church, Fleet-Street, near his kinfman, William
Lovelace, of Gray’s-Inn, Efq. Sic tr an ft gloria mundi!
Anthony Wood fays that he was accounted by all who knew him to
have been a perfon well verfed in the Greek and Latin poets; in mufic,
whether practical or theoretical, inffrumental or vocal ; and in other things
befitting a gentleman : that his common difcourfe was not only fignificant
and witty, but incomparably graceful ; and that his mind was as generous
in his profperity as it was dejcdted in his poverty.
Edward Phillips, in his Pheatrum Poetarum, fome paffages of which
are attributed to Milton, fays that Lovelace was “ an approved both fouldier,