228 Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth. 



as Elizabeth, who would not have bluihed 

 like the laft goddefs. * 



• Another curious piflure painted about the Tanie 

 time, I know not by what hand, was in the colletlion 

 of James Weft, Efq. It repreients Henry VIII. fitting 

 under a canopy fupported by pillars and delivering the 

 fword to prince Edward. On the right hand of the 

 king ftand Philip and Mary ; Mars is coming in behind 

 them. Queen Elizabeth, too large in proportion to 

 the reft, ftands foreward on the other fide, and leads 

 Peace and Plenty, whofe faces are faid to be portraits 

 of the countefTes of Shrewlbury and Saliibury ; but the 

 latter muft be a miftake in the tradition, for there was 

 no countefs of Salift>ury at that time. Lady Shrews- 

 bury I fappofe was the famous Elizabeth of Hardwicke. 

 Circumfcribed in golden letters on the frame are thefe 

 lines, extremely in the ftyle of the queen's own compo- 

 fitions ; 



A face of much nobility lo I in a little room. 



Four States with their conditions here fhadow'd in a 



Ihow ; 

 A father more than valiant, a rare and virtuous fon ; 

 A daughter zealous in her kind, what elfe the world 



doth know. 

 And laft of all a virgin queen to England's joy we fee 

 Succeffively to hold the right and virtues of the three. 

 And in fmall letters on the fore-ground at bottom, 

 thefe. 



The queen to Walfmgham this table fent, 

 Mark of her people's and her own content. 

 This pii^ure was brought from Chiflehurft, whither 

 it had been carried from Scadbury, the feats of the Wal- 

 finghams, and is now at Strawberry-hill. 



6. There 



