LINES TO A LADY, ON HER REFUSING HER CARD.
Let heroes, anxious for their future fame,
Obtain of Fortune what they want—a name;
The future theirs, the present hour be mine—
The only name I ask of fate—is thine;
Yet happier still had fate decreed to me
The favour'd lot, to give my name to thee.
T.B.
A dull barrister, once obtained the nickname Necessity—because Necessity has no law.
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Footnote 1: [(return)]
Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, p. 1. edit. 1641. Most of his biographers affirm that he was the son of a butcher.
Footnote 2: [(return)]
"Northern Tour." The same author observes, that "the death of Wolsey would make a fine moral picture, if the hand of any master could give the pallid features of the dying statesman, that chagrin, that remorse, those pangs of anguish, which, in the last bitter moments of his life, possessed him. The point might be taken when the monks are administering the comforts of religion, which the despairing prelate cannot feel. The subject requires a gloomy apartment, which a ray through a Gothic window might just enlighten, throwing its force chiefly on the principal figure, and dying away on the rest. The appendages of the piece need only be few and simple; little more than the crozier and red hat to mark the cardinal and tell the story."
Footnote 3: [(return)]
Stow's "Annals," p. 557, edit. 1615.
Footnote 4: [(return)]
Shakspeare introduces this memorable saying of the cardinal into his play of "Henry the Eighth:"—
—"O Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Stow's "Annals."
Footnote 6: [(return)]
Holinshed's "Chronicle," vol. iii. p. 765, edit. 1808.
Footnote 7: [(return)]
"Collectanea," vol i. p. 70.
Footnote 8: [(return)]
Tanner.
Footnote 9: [(return)]
For the particulars of which, see Knolle's "history of the Turks."
Footnote 10: [(return)]
Azrael, in the Mahometan creed, the angel of death.
Footnote 11: [(return)]
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