George Herbert and his times . hort account of the poets brothersand sisters, which is of interest as showing that allor most of his brothers inherited the family aptitudefor public life. Incidentally it affords a comparisonwith that given of his brothers by Lord Herberthimself. Edward Herbert fully confirms Waltonspraise of their fortunate and true English valour ;but he adds the fact, omitted by Walton—perhapsfrom ignorance—that four of them were inveterateduellists! My brother Richard, he says, after he hadbeen brought up in learning, went to the LowCountries, where he continued many years
George Herbert and his times . hort account of the poets brothersand sisters, which is of interest as showing that allor most of his brothers inherited the family aptitudefor public life. Incidentally it affords a comparisonwith that given of his brothers by Lord Herberthimself. Edward Herbert fully confirms Waltonspraise of their fortunate and true English valour ;but he adds the fact, omitted by Walton—perhapsfrom ignorance—that four of them were inveterateduellists! My brother Richard, he says, after he hadbeen brought up in learning, went to the LowCountries, where he continued many years withmuch reputation, both in the wars and for fightingsingle duels, which were many, insomuch thatbetween both, he carried, as I have been told, thescars of four-and-twenty wounds upon him to hisgrave. . My brother William being broughtup likewise in learning, went afterwards to thewars in Denmark, where, fighting a single combat,and having his sword broken, he not only de-fended himself with that piece which remained,. Z DO P4 BIRTHPLACE, FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD 19 but, closing with his adversary, threw him down,and so held him until company came in. . .Henry, after he had been brought up in learningas the other brothers were . . also hath givenseveral proofs of his courage in duels and other-wise ; while his youngest brother, Thomas, thesailor, fought divers times with great courageand success with divers men in single fight. Ofthe seven brothers, all of them brought up inlearning, George the poet, and his next elderbrother, Charles, who died young as a Fellow ofNew College, Oxford, are the only two not men-tioned by him as proficient in duelling. His brothers exploits, however, pale ineffec-tually beside those which Edward Herbert hasrecorded of himself. By his own account, in hisAutobiography (not published until the eighteenthcentury, and hence not available for Walton), hischaracter combined the finer qualities of theChevalier Bayard and Don Quixote with those ofan arran
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