FOOTNOTES:
[11] Daughter of the first Earl of Devonshire, of the Cavendish family. She was celebrated by Sidney Godolphin in some very sweet lines, which contain a lovely female portrait. Waller's verses on her sudden death are remarkable for a signal instance of the Bathos,
That horrid word, at once like lightning spread,
Struck all our ears,—the Lady Rich is dead!
[12] See Waller, Carew, D'Avenant: the latter has paid her some exquisite compliments.
[13] Sir Philip Sydney's Works, "Defence of Poesie."
[14] Scott's Life of Dryden, p. 89.
[15] With the exception of the dedication of his Palamon and Arcite to the young and beautiful Duchess of Ormonde (Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.)
[16] Mrs. Reeves, his mistress: she afterwards became a nun.
[17] Johnson's Life of Addison.