NEWTOWN TO MONTGOMERY. 7.9 



He died In 1648, at the age of fixty-feven, and 

 was interred in the chancel of the church of :Sl. 

 Giles in the Fields *. 



In confidering the character of lord Herbert, it is 

 evident that vanity was his prevailing foible. Hence 

 he reprefents himfeif, from his infancy, as the moii: 

 extraordinary of all human beings. Common inci- 

 dents he exaggerates into unprecedented events. 

 Hence he informs us, as miraculous circumftances, 

 that he grew the breadth of two little fingers cdft^ 

 he was thiity years old j that he weighed Jighter 

 than other men who were both lower in ilature, 

 and more flender than himfeif; that he had a con- 

 flant pulfe in the crown of his head ; and that hig 

 flnrt and under garments always fmelt uncommonlj 

 fweet. — As a foldier he won the efteem of the brave- 

 as a knight his chivalry was drawn from the fjuiy 

 queen. Had he been ambitious, the elegance of his 

 figure and perfon would have carried him to the 

 higheft pitch of honour. He obtained particular 

 notice from queen Elizabeth and Anne of Aullria ; 

 and he received fuch marked attentions from Aime 

 of Denmark, the queen of James I., as to atlrad 

 public notice, and excite the jealoufy of his fove- 

 reign. 



* The following infctiption, his own campofitTon, is to be 

 ■feen on a flat marble flab over his grave. *' Hie inhuniatur 

 corpus Edvardi Herbert, equitis balnei, baronis de Chirbury et 

 Caftle ifland, auAovis Hbri, cui titukis eft, De Verttate. Redder 

 ut herbse, vicefimo die Augufti, anno Domini, 1648." 



Lord 



