This poem, under the title, ‘To my most honour’d Aunt, the Lady Dormer,’ is the dedication of 1647. Who this lady was is not clear to the Editor, unless she was Alice, daughter to Sir Richard Molyneux, Bart., of Sefton, Lancashire, widow of Sir William Dormer, and mother of the splendid first Earl of Carnarvon, killed in the King’s cause at Newbury, 1643. It is rather noticeable that many of Stanley’s friends and kinsfolk, like the Dormers, were Catholics.
To Mr. W. Hammond (p. 17).
[10:1.] P. 18, line 30. 1647 reads:
‘Nor any flame but what is thine will own.’
‘Nor any flame but what is thine will own.’
[11:1.] On Mr. Shirley’s Poems (p. 18).
Title in Stanley, 1647: ‘On Mr. I. S. his Poems.’
[11:2.] P. 18, line 7. 1647:
‘Next like some skilful artist, who to wonder.’
‘Next like some skilful artist, who to wonder.’