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licately complimentary letter to Milton on receiving from him 

 Comus. Sir Henry, when a resident at Venice, (where he 

 was sent on three several embassies by James) purchased for 

 that munificent encourager of painting, the Duke of Buck- 

 ingham, several valuable pictures, which were added to the 

 Duke's magnificent collection. Isaac Walton's Life of Wot- 

 ton thus concludes: — " Dying worthy of his name and family, 

 worthy of the love of so many princes, and persons of emi- 

 nent wisdom and learning, worthy of the trust committed 

 unto him for the service of his prince and country." And, in 

 his Angler, he thus sweetly paints the warm attachment he 

 had for Wotton: — " a man with whom I have often fished 

 and conversed, whose learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made 

 his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind. 

 Peace and patience, and a calm content, did cohabit in the 

 cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton." 



Sir Thomas Browne. Mr. Dallaway, in his Anecdotes 

 of the Arts, mentions the following portrait of Sir Thomas: 

 — " At Devonshire-house is a family groupe, by Dobson, of 

 Sir Thomas Browne. He is smiling with the utmost compla- 

 cency upon his children, who surround him." His portrait is 

 also prefixed to his works. The Biograph. Diet., folio, 1748, 

 says, " his picture, in the College of Physicians, shews him 

 to have been remarkably handsome, and to have possessed, 

 in a singular degree, the blessings of a grave, yet cheerful 

 and inviting, countenance." The same work farther gives 

 him a most amiable character. Mr. Ray, in his Ornitho- 

 logy, does not omit paying a just compliment to his assistant 

 and friend, "the deservedly famous Sir Thomas Browne." 

 Evelyn, in 1671, mentions Sir Thomas Browne's garden at 

 Norwich, as containing a paradise of varieties, and the 

 gardens of all the inhabitants as full of excellent flowers. 

 Switzer says, "The noble elegance of his style has since 

 induced many to read his works, (of which, that of Cyrus s 



