MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 187, is a coloured sketch by Aubrey of Sir James Long
of Draycot and himself hawking; fol. 189 is Aubrey's pencil drawing for
it.
=Richard Lovelace= (1618-1658).
[135]Richard Lovelace[R], esq.: he was a most beautifull gentleman.
Geminum, seu lumina, sydus,
Et dignos Baccho digitos, et Apolline crines,
Impubesque genas, et eburnea colla, decusque
Oris, et in niveo mistum candore ruborem.
OVID. _Metamorph._[136] fab. 5 (Echo), lib. III.
Obiit in a cellar in Long Acre, a little before the restauration of
his majestie. Mr. Edmund Wyld, etc. have made collections for him, and
given him money.
One of the handsomst men of England. He was of ... in Kent, 500 _li._
per annum and + (quaere E. W.).
He was an extraordinary handsome man, but prowd. He wrote a poem called
_Lucasta_[XI.], 8vo, printed London by Thomas Harper to be sold at the
Gun in Ivy lane, 1649[137].
[XI.] Lucasta, Posthumous Poems of Richard Lovelace, esq., with verses
of severall of his friends on him: 8vo.
He was of Glocester hall[138], as I have been told.
He had two younger brothers, viz. colonel Francis Lovelace, and
another brother <William> that died at Carmarthen (prout per poema).
George Petty, haberdasher, in Fleet Street, carried xx_s._ to him every
Monday morning from Sir ... Many and Charles Cotton, esq., for ...
(quaere quot) moneths, but was never repayd[S].
_Notes._