It is much to be wished that these 'four verses' were recovered.
Further, he had a daughter named 'Lucy'; and of her the same authority
writes: "So that the said Lucy being sole heiress to her father,
Ferdinando, Lord Hastings, (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon) became a
suitor to her for marriage; whereupon the father made this Epigram:
LUCIDA VIS oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis
Nec tamen erravit nam VIA DULCIS erat."
On this WATTS remarks: "This is a remarkable anagram of Lucy
Davies. See as remarkable ones on the mother Eleanor Davies, _Reveal O
Daniel_, by herself, the other made on her by DR. LAMB,--Dame
Eleanor Davies, _Never so mad a Lady_. Heylin's Life of Laud p. 266."
Wood's Athenæ, (edn. by Bliss) Vol. II. p. 404. G.