at the commencement" target="_blank" title="n.开始；毕业典礼(日)">commencement. It may not be generally known that,
independently of its imperfections in other respects,

Mr. Singer's reprint abounds with the grossest blunders.
The old orthography has been preserved intact in this edition;

but with respect to the employment of capitals, the entirely
arbitrary manner in which they are introduced into the book as

originally published, has made it necessary to reduce them, as well
as the singularly capricious punctuation, to modern rules. At the

same time, in those cases where capitals seemed more characteristic
or appropriate, they have been retained.

It is a singular circumstance, that Mr. Singer (in common with
Wood, Bliss, Ellis, Headley, and all other biographers,) overlooked

the misprint of ARAMANTHA for AMARANTHA, which the old compositor
made, with one or two exceptions, wherever the word occurred. In

giving a correct representation of the original title-page, I have
been obliged to print ARAMANTHA.

In the hope of discovering the exact date of Lovelace's birth
and baptism, I communicated with the Rev. A. J. Pearman, incumbent

of Bethersden, near Ashford, and that gentleman obligingly examined
the registers for me, but no traces of Lovelace's name are to be

found.
W. C. H.

Kensington, August 12, 1863.
<1.1> Mr. B. R. was a somewhat diligentcollector of books,

both English and foreign. On the fly-leaves of his copy
of Rosse's MYSTAGOGUS POETICUS, 1648, 8vo., he has written

the names of a variety of works, of which he was at the time
seemingly in recent possession.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.
With the exception of Sir Egerton Brydges, who contributed to the

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for 1791-2 a series of articles on the life
and writings of the subject of the present memoir, all the

biographers of Richard Lovelace have contented themselves with
following the account left by Anthony Wood of his short and unhappy

career. I do not think that I can do better than commence, at
least, by giving word for word the narrative of Wood in his own

language, to which I purpose to add such additional particulars in
the form of notes or otherwise, as I may be able to supply. But

the reader must not expect much that is new: for I regret to say
that, after the most careful researches, I have not improved, to

any large extent, the state of knowledge respecting this elegant
poet and unfortunate man.

"Richard Lovelace," writes Wood, "the eldest son of Sir William
Lovelace<2.1> of Woollidge in Kent, knight, was born in that

country [in 1618], educated in grammar learning in
Charterhouse<2.2> School near London, became a gent. commoner of

Gloucester Hall in the beginning of the year 1634,<2.3> and in that
of his age sixteen, being then accounted the most amiable and

beautiful person that ever eye beheld; a person also of innate
modesty, virtue, and courtly deportment, which made him then, but

especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired
and adored by the female sex. In 1636, when the king and queen

were for some days entertained at Oxon, he was, at the request of a
great lady belonging to the queen, made to the Archbishop of

Canterbury [Laud], then Chancellor of the University, actually
created, among other persons of quality, Master of Arts, though but

of two years' standing; at which time his conversation being made
public, and consequently his ingenuity and generous soul

discovered, he became as much admired by the male, as before by the
female, sex. After he had left the University, he retired in great

splendour to the court, and being taken into the favour of Lord
George Goring, afterwards Earl of Norwich, was by him adopted a

soldier, and sent in the quality of an ensign, in the Scotch
expedition, an. 1639. Afterwards, in the second expedition, he was

commissionated a captain in the same regiment, and in that time
wrote a tragedy called THE SOLDIER, but never acted, because the

stage was soon after suppressed. After the pacification of
Berwick, he retired to his native country, and took possession [of

his estate] at Lovelace Place, in the parish of Bethersden,<2.4> at
Canterbury, Chart, Halden, &c., worth, at least, 500 per

annum. About which time he [being then on the commission of the
peace] was made choice of by the whole body of the county of Kent

at an assize, to deliver the Kentish petition<2.5> to the House of
Commons, for the restoring the king to his rights, and for settling

the government, &c. For which piece of service he was committed
[April 30, 1642] to the Gatehouse at Westminster,<2.6> where he

made that celebrated song called, STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE,
&c. After three or four months' [six or seven weeks'] imprisonment,

he had his liberty upon bail of 40,000 [4000?]
not to stir out of the lines of communication without a pass from

the speaker. During the time of this confinement to London,
he lived beyond the income of his estate, either to keep up

the credit and reputation of the king's cause by furnishing
men with horses and arms, or by relieving ingenious men in want,

whether scholars, musicians, soldiers, &c. Also, by furnishing
his two brothers, Colonel Franc. Lovelace, and Captain William

Lovelace (afterwards slain at Caermarthen)<2.7> with men and
money for the king's cause, and his other brother, called Dudley

Posthumus Lovelace, with moneys for his maintenance in Holland,
to study tactics and fortification in that school of war. After

the rendition of Oxford garrison, in 1646, he formed a regiment
for the service of the French king, was colonel of it, and

wounded at Dunkirk;<2.8> and in 1648, returning into England, he,
with Dudley Posthumus before mentioned, then a captain under him,

were both committed prisoners to Peter House,<2.9> in London, where
he framed his poems for the press, entitled, LUCASTA: EPODES, ODES,

SONNETS, SONGS, &c., Lond. 1649, Oct. The reason why he gave that
title was because, some time before, he had made his amours to a

gentlewoman of great beauty and fortune, named Lucy Sacheverell,
whom he usually called LUX CASTA; but she, upon a stray report that

Lovelace was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk, soon after
married.<2.10> He also wrote ARAMANTHA [Amarantha], A PASTORAL,

printed with LUCASTA.<2.11> Afterwards a musicalcomposition of two
parts was set to part of it by Henry Lawes,<2.12> sometimes servant

to king Charles I., in his public and private music.
"After the murther of king Charles I. Lovelace was set at liberty,

and, having by that time consumed all his estate,<2.13> grew
very melancholy (which brought him at length into a consumption),

became very poor in body and purse, was the object of charity,
went in ragged cloaths (whereas when he was in his glory he wore

cloth of gold and silver), and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty
places, more befitting the worst of beggars and poorest of

servants, &c. After his death his brother Dudley, before
mentioned, made a collection of his poetical papers, fitted them

for the press, and entitled them LUCASTA: POSTHUME POEMS, Lond.
1659,<2.14> Oct., the second part, with his picture before

them.<2.15> These are all the things that he hath extant; those
that were never published were his tragedy, called THE SOLDIER or

SOLDIERS, before mentioned; and his comedy, called THE
SCHOLAR,<2.16> which he composed at sixteen years of age, when he

came first to Gloucester hall, acted with applause afterwards in
Salisbury Court. He died in a very mean lodging in Gunpowder

Alley,<2.17> near Shoe Lane,<2.18> and was buried at the west-end
of the church of S. Bride, alias Bridget, in London, near to the

body of his kinsman Will. Lovelace, of Gray's Inn, Esq., in sixteen
hundred fifty and eight,<2.19> having before been accounted by all

those that well knew him to have been a person well versed in the
Greek<2.20> and Latin<2.21> poets, in music, whether practical or

theoretical, instrumental or vocal, and in other things befitting a
gentleman. Some of the said persons have also added, in my

hearing, that his common discourse was not only significant and
witty, but incomparably graceful, which drew respect from all men

and women. Many other things I could now say of him, relating
either to his most generous mind in his prosperity, or dejected

estate in his worst state of poverty, but for brevity's sake I
shall now pass them by. At the end of his Posthume Poems are