"Loe, thus drawne on by spedy pace,
Ledd forth with Phillis fame,
Unto a wood that grew thereby
The gentle shepheard came.

"Where hee, approching shady groves,
Sweet groves for moonshine night,
Where as the sunne was bar'd his force,
But not debar'd his light;

ELIZABETH,

LADY RUSSEL,

Or a family as learned as the Fitz-Alans, was third daughter of sir Anthony Cooke, and sister of the ladies Burleigh and Bacon, whose erudition is sufficiently known. She was married, first to sir Thomas Hobby, embassador from queen Elizabeth at Paris, where he died, 1566; and secondly, to John lord Russel, son of Francis, the second earl of Bedford. She survived both her husbands, and wrote Greek, Latin, and English epitaphs in verse, for them and others of her relations. It is her daughter", by her second husband, whose effigy is foolishly shown in Westminster Abbey as killed by the prick of a needle.

Lady Russel translated out of French into English

"A Way of Reconciliation of a good and learned Man, touching the true Nature and

[In notes, by H. W. to the portraits at Woburn Abbey, this lady is said to have been the sister-in-law of lady Russel, and that her pointing to a death's head gave rise to the vulgar notion of her having bled to death by pricking her finger.]

Rivers dur

ELIZABETH LADY RUSSEL.

Pubbish'd March 1-1803, by John Scott, S. Martin's Court, Leicester Square.

Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in

the Sacrament."

Printed 1605, and dedicated to her daughter Anne Russel, wife of lord Henry Somerset, heir of Edward earl of Worcester; with Latin and English verses.

Ballard has printed 3—

"A Letter to Lord Burleigh, about the Extravagance of her youngest Son."

[Mr. Strype commends the excellent spirit as well as pen of this good lady 4, and has cited a part of her affectionate address to her daughter, before her English translation, which sanctions his encomium. The whole might here have demanded insertion, had the present editor been able to meet with a copy of the tract printed in 1605.

"Lady Russel to her daughter Lady Herbert. "Most vertuous and worthily beloved daughter, "Even as from your first birth and cradle, I ever was most careful, above any worldly thing, to have you suck the perfect milk of sincere religion: so willing to end as I began, I have left to you, as my last legacy, this book, a most precious jewel, to the

3 Ballard, p. 195.

• Annals of the Reformation, vol. ii. p. 470. Lady Russel, however, was no peeress; her husband, lord John, having died before his father, Francis earl of Bedford.