"Blessed he was, but 'twas in thoughts, "Whome length of time and high desires In such a dumpe had cast, As, ravisht with his thoughts, he slept "But as all quiets have their dead, And every slepe his wake; Now here to hope, now there to feare, Now fancye, then forsake: "Soe had this shepheard restles dreames Amyd his tyme or rest, Which forced him to wake for feare, "And though that feare be nothing else But as the fearefull deme, Yet waking, every bush to him A savage beast doth seeme. "Which made him start, as men doe start Whose resolucions breed A quicknes, yet a carelesnes "Frighted he was, but not affraide, And soe the bushes seemed them selves, "Which his faint eyes did quickelye fynd Fill'd full with faithfull streams, And soe he layd him by his dogg That barkt not at his dreames. 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 daughter2, 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.] |