These forms and characters of woe:
So he the fashion only lent,
Whilst she wept all this monument.”
[137]. "My Lord,--I was in hope, till very lately, that all your displeasure taken against my lord had been past; but, in letters sent me out of England, I was assuredly informed your lordship was much disgusted still with him, which news hath very much troubled me. I cannot be satisfied without sending these expressly to you. And I beseech you that, whatever you do conceive, you will deal clearly with me, and let me know it, and withal direct me how I may remove it. I must necessarily be included in your lordship’s anger to him, for any misfortune to my lord must be mine, and it will prove a great misfortune to me to live under your frowns. Out of your goodness you will not, I hope, make me a sufferer, who have never deserved from you but as
“Your Lordship’s
“Katharine Buckingham.
“Dunbere, this 2nd of September, 1639.”[[138]]
[138]. Strafford Letters, vol. ii., p. 386.
[139]. Burke’s Extinct Peerage.
[140]. "In the Earl of Cork’s chapel at Youghal, where he was buried, there still remains the following hexastich to his memory:--