The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . inianum Pagitt. Arm. CustodemBrevium, the composition of Payne Fisher, some-time Poet Laureate to the Protector or, as he styledhimself after the Restoration, the chief scribblerand Pamphleteer to His Infernal Majesty. Thepoem is referred to by Antony Wood as existing inhis day, but it never came to be printed, andhitherto my searches have been in vain. It ispossible that this portrait-study may attract it tothe light. As for the Lady Mazaretta, the villain of this
The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . inianum Pagitt. Arm. CustodemBrevium, the composition of Payne Fisher, some-time Poet Laureate to the Protector or, as he styledhimself after the Restoration, the chief scribblerand Pamphleteer to His Infernal Majesty. Thepoem is referred to by Antony Wood as existing inhis day, but it never came to be printed, andhitherto my searches have been in vain. It ispossible that this portrait-study may attract it tothe light. As for the Lady Mazaretta, the villain of thispiece, it must be told that she survived all her 212 Seventeenth-Century Pacificist enemies and lived victorious to the verge of ninety-years. Her career adds one more melancholy-example of the good estate of the w^icked and theinequitable lot of mortals here below^. For -whilethe soft pliable natures have but a fe-w days on theearth and those mostly in the shade, the -wicked seemto bask like bay-trees in the sun of uncounted to her physician Mazarettas appetite-was enormous to the where is she no-w ?. A PRINCES POCKET-BOOK FEEBLE of intellect, and effeminate, irresoluteand vain, the licentious offspring of illicitlove, the sport of every wind that blew andevery amorous woman—such are the easy phrasesthe historians have used to summarize and dismissthe life and character of James, Duke of Monmouth,the second son of Charles the Second ^ It is surprising that they have not given morepatient, if not more charitable, consideration to thefate of one who for all his faults was more loved inhis day than any man in the land, and who camewithin an ace, too, of sitting on the throne. Forlet it not be forgotten, had Charles the Second beencalled four years earlier to his account, that is to say ^ So still generally styled. But see Historical Essays and Studies,by Lord Acton, 1907, pp. 85-122, where the faint traces arefollowed of James Stuart, the first son, born
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