"_I could not love thee, dear, so much_" (Vol. ix., p. 125.).--These lines
are from an exquisite _morceau_ entitled _To Lucasta, on going to the
Wars_, by the gay, gallant, and ill-fated cavalier, Richard Lovelace, whose
undying loyalty and love, and whose life, and every line that he wrote, are
all redolent of the best days of chivalry. They are to be found in a 12mo.
volume, _Lucasta_, London, 1649. The entire piece is so short, that I
venture to subjoin it:
"Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde,
That from the nunnerie
Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde,
To warre and armes I flie.
"True, a new mistresse now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith imbrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
"Yet this inconstancy is such,
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, deare, so much,
Loved I not honour more."
To the honour of Kent be it remembered that Lovelace was CANTIANUS.
[We are also indebted for Replies to E. L. HOLT WHITE, GEO. E. FRERE,
E. C. H., J. K. R. W., H. J. RAINES, M.D., F. J. SCOTT, W. J. B. SMITH,
E. S. T. T., C. B. E., F. E. E., &c. "Lovelace (says Wood) made his
amours to a gentlewoman of great beauty and fortune, named Lucy
Sacheverel, whom he usually called Lux casta; but she, upon a strong
report that he was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk (where he had
brought a regiment for the service of the French king), soon after
married."--Wood's _Athenæ Oxonienses_, vol. iii. p. 462.]
_Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol. viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the
translator of _Cassandra_, was Master of the Ceremonies to Charles II.;
which office he resigned to his son in 1686, and died about 1687. I cannot
say where he was buried. I am in possession of a copy of--
"The Memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first Wife to Henry the Fourth,
King of France and Navarre; compiled in French by her own most delicate
and Royal hand, and translated into English by Robert Codrington,
Master of Arts: London, printed by R. H. 1661."
It is dedicated to "To the true lover of all good learning, the truly
honourable Sir Charles Cotterell, Knight, Master of the Ceremonies," &c. On
the fly-leaf of it is written, "Frances Cottrell, her booke, given by my
honor'd grandfather Sir Cha. Cottrell." This edition is not mentioned by
Lowndes; he only speaks of one of the date of 1662, with a title slightly
different.