196 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book X. 



To all the uses of the field and race, 



Methought I read the ancient art of Thrance, 



And saw a centaur, past those tales of Greece, 



So seemed your horse and you both of a piece ! 



You showed like Perseus upon Pegasus, 



Or Castor mounted on Cyllarus ; 



Or what we hear our home-born legend tell, 



Of bold sir Bevis and his Arundel : 



Nay, so your seat his beauties did endorse. 



As I began to wish myself a horse : * 



And surely, had I but your stable seen 



Before, I think my wish absolved had been ; 



For never saw I yet the Muses dwell. 



Nor any of their household, half so well. 



So well ! as when I saw the floor -and room 



I looked for Hercules to be a groom ; 



And cried, Away with the Ceesarian breed ! 



And these immortal mangers Virgil fed. f 



Shadwell says that the duke " was the greatest master of 

 wit, the most exact observer of mankind, and the most accurate 

 judge of humour that ever he knew." His grace was twice 

 married, but had issue only by his first lady. His body lies 

 interred, with that of his duchess, under a most noble monu- 

 jnent at the entrance into Westminster Abbey, with an in- 

 scription suitable to his merits. His titles descended to his 

 son Henry, Earl of Ogle (who, in a modified form, carried on 

 his father's famous stud at Welbeck Abbey) ; he was the last 

 heir male of this family, and died July 26, 1691, in whom the 

 title of Newcastle, in the line of Cavendish, became extin- 

 guished, but his daughters married into some of the noblest 

 families of this kingdom. 



Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, and second 

 wife of William, first Duke of Newcastle, was born at St. 

 John's, near Colchester, Essex, about the end of the reign of 



* An allusion, probably, to the passage in Sir Philip Sidney's " De- 

 fence of Poetry," v/here, speaking of Pugliana's discourse upon horses, 

 he says, " If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I 

 think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." 



t Alluding to the circumstance of Virgil having been employed in the 

 stables of Augustus, and having his accustomed allowance of bread 

 doubled for the judgment he gave of a colt the emperor had just bought. 



