Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . in the volume. There is an old copy of the head and shouldersonly, whith used to be in the Gallery at Althorp. f This truly amiable lady, who affected retirement, and was never vain ofthat beauty which has rendered her fame immortal, was celebrated by Wallerunder the name of Sacharissa. AVTien she was far advanced in years, and hadoutlived every personal charm which had inspired the poet in his youth, sheas
Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . in the volume. There is an old copy of the head and shouldersonly, whith used to be in the Gallery at Althorp. f This truly amiable lady, who affected retirement, and was never vain ofthat beauty which has rendered her fame immortal, was celebrated by Wallerunder the name of Sacharissa. AVTien she was far advanced in years, and hadoutlived every personal charm which had inspired the poet in his youth, sheasked him in raillery, \Mien he would \mte such fine verses upon heragain? Oh, madam, (said he) when your ladyship is as young ; vol. ii. p. 383. Edit. 1804. It is well observed, in the note here,that the repartee would have been better, if Waller had said, AMien we areboth young again. Feuton, in his Observations upon Waller, speaking of thename of Sacharissa, says, that it recalU to mind what is related of the Turks,who, in their gallantries, think sucar birpara, i. e. bit of sugar, the most politeand endearing compliment they can use to the ladies. Ibid. Wallers letter. FIiaST ]EA3E]L ®F STOTHBIEmiLAHB. Tram an Original Portrait in the Gallerv st Althor!;. London. rutUshfd for the Jler TFDii/i. 1643.] ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. xxix survived her husband about forty years, and became a secondtime a widow, having married, in 1653, Robert Smythe, Esq. ofBounds, in the parish of Bidborough, in Kent, son and heir of To my Luct/ Sydney, upon the marriage of my Lady Dorothy, hersister, to my Lord Spencer—will without doubt (says the Editor of thebest edition of Wallers poems in 1711, 8vo.) be an entertainment to thePublick, the writer and the occasion being both very extraordinary. Theletter in question runs thus : Madam; In this common joy at Penshurst, I know none to whom com-plaints may come less unseasonable than to your Ladyship, the loss of abedfellow being almos
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