would permit, she gave audience in the garden; her lines were strong, and in open daylight the shades had less force. Vertue, the engraver, had a pocket-book of Isaac Oliver, in which the latter had made a memorandum, that the queen would not let him give any shade to her features, telling him, "that shade was an accident, and not naturally existing in a face." Her portraits are generally without any shadow. I have in my possession another strongly presumptive proof of this weakness. It is a fragment of one of her last broad pieces, representing her horridly old and deformed. An entire coin with this image is not known. It is universally supposed that the die was broken by her command, and that some workman of the mint cut out this morsel, which contains barely the face. As it has never been engraved, so singular a curiosity may have its merit, in a work which has no other kind of merit.

by an author who has illustrated many passages in the English history, and adorned more, in his Catalogue of royal and noble Authors." Hist. of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 243.]

This piece was purchased from the cabinet of the late carl of Oxford. [An original engraving of the queen, when she was princess Elizabeth, was prefixed to Nugæ Antiquæ, edit. 1769, and is here contrasted with her later resemblance in lord Orford's collection. Dr. Lort 1emarks, that Puttenham calls her "the most bewtifull or rather bewtie of quenes." Art of E. P. p. 207.]

The above Fac Simile of 2.Elizabeth's Signature, the death -warrant of Robert Earl of Epex: now in the Marquis of Staffords Possession ?

to

On whatever her favour was founded, it was by no means placed undeservedly. The earl's courage was impetuous and heroic: to this were added, great talents for the state, great affection for literature and protection of learned men, and the greatest zeal for the service and safety of his mistress. At nineteen he distinguished himself at the battle of Zutphen, where sir Philip Sidney fell. At twenty-two, he undertook, as a volunteer, to promote the restoration of Don Antonio to the throne of Portugal3, usurped by the queen's black enemy Philip; and by sound of trumpet challenged the governor of Corunna, or any of equal quality, to single combat*.

He treated Villars, the

* [Pricket thus ballads forth his praise on this occasion:
"But when he went to fruitful Portingale

For to inthroane a mournefull bannisht king,
How did his deeds his prayse to heaven exhale!
His honors worth you sacred muses sing.
Spaines chronicle, and Lisbornes gates can tell
His warlike arme deserved wondrous well."
And thus doth he celebrate the expedition to Cadiz:
"Let Cales tell forth the honor of his deeds,

His valiant prowes, and his justice such,
As who so but their owne description reads,
Will say of truth, that he deserv'd as much
As ever any noble conqueror did,

His conquering sword was with such mercie led," &c.] * [On this occasion "An Eclogue gratulatorie, intitled To the right hon. and renowned Shepherd of Albion's Arcadia,

governor of Rouen, in the same style. In the expedition to Cadiz, he threw his hat into the sea for joy that the lord admiral consented to attack the Spanish fleet. Few royal favourites are so prodigal of life! His indignation against Philip rose to the dignity of a personal aversion: in his letters he used to say, "I will teach that proud king to know." As much reason as she had to hate Philip, the queen could not endure the earl's assuming such arrogance against a crowned head. So formidable an enemy he was, that when the greatest offers could not

Robert Erle of Essex and Ewe, for his Welcome into England from Portugall," was licensed to Richard Jones the printer, but had not been seen by Herbert. Typogr. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 1054.

On the earl's departure for Ireland in 1599, Churchyard published "A fortunate Farewell to the Earl of Essex,” which has been reprinted by Mr. Nichols in his collection of queen Elizabeth's Progresses. Warton says, he could bring evidence to prove that lord Essex scarce ever went out of England, or even left London, on the most frivolous enterprise, without a pastoral in his praise, or a panegyric in metre, which were sold and sung in the streets. Hist. of E. P. vol. iii. p. 422.]

In his letter to Villars, the earl said, "Si vous voulez combattre vous meme à cheval ou à pied, je maintiendrai que la querelle du roi (Henri IV.) est plus juste que celle de la ligue; que je suis meilleur que vous; et que ma maitresse est plus belle que la votre," &c. Essais Histor, sur Paris, par Saintfoix, vol. ii. p. 82.

Bacon Papers, vol. ii. p. 307.