74 Continuation of the State of 



A portrait f, faid to be of his queen, in the 

 Ailimolcan Mufeiim at Oxford, conveys no 

 idea of her lovelinefs nor of any n>:ill in 

 the painter. Ahnoft as few charms can be 

 difcovered in his favounte Jane Shore, pre- 

 ferved at Eton, and probably an original, 

 as her confelTor was provoft of that college, 

 and by her intercelTion recovered their lands, 

 of which they had been defpoiled, as hav- 

 ing owed their foundation to Edward's com- 

 petitor. In this pidure her forehead is re- 

 markably large, her mouth and the reft of 

 her features fmall ; her hair of die admired 

 golden colour J : A lock of it (if we may 



believe 



f There is another at Qaeen*s college Cambridge, of 

 which fhe was fecond foundrefs ; it feenis to be of 

 the time, but is not handfome. 



X This piiflure anfwers to a much larger mention- 

 ed by Sir Thomas More ; who, fpeaking of her, 

 feys, '*^ her Itature was mean ; her hair of a dark 

 yellow, her face round and full, her eyes grey ; deli- 

 cate harmony being betwixt each part's proportions, 

 and each proportion's colour ; her body fat, white and 

 finooth ; her countenance chearfull, and like to her 

 condition ; the piflure which I have feen of her was 

 fuch as Ihe rofe out of her bed in the morning, having 

 nothing on but a rich mantle, call under one arm and 

 over her fiioulder, aad litting in a cliair, on which one 



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