. With Milton and the cavaliers . second Viscount Falkland,has perhaps left behind him a more romanticimage than that of any other in these troubledtimes. This is due to several causes : his noblebirth, his wealth, his poetic and intellectual ability,the magnetic power he possessed of drawinground him all the choicest spirits of the day, andwhich left us so loving and minute a- portrait ofhim in the works of his friend Lord Clarendon;and, perhaps above all, the fact of his early andgallant death upon the field of Newbury, beforetime or circumstances had robbed him of the tender grace of his yo
. With Milton and the cavaliers . second Viscount Falkland,has perhaps left behind him a more romanticimage than that of any other in these troubledtimes. This is due to several causes : his noblebirth, his wealth, his poetic and intellectual ability,the magnetic power he possessed of drawinground him all the choicest spirits of the day, andwhich left us so loving and minute a- portrait ofhim in the works of his friend Lord Clarendon;and, perhaps above all, the fact of his early andgallant death upon the field of Newbury, beforetime or circumstances had robbed him of the tender grace of his youth. He was loved andadmired by his contemporaries much as Sir PhilipSidney was in an earlier day ; and, like the knightof Elizabeths court, his early death left hismemory ever unalterable. At that time, whenhouseholds were sundered and lifelong friendshipsbroken by the terrible questions of the Civil War,it was no doubt almost a relief to those who hadloved Falkland best to know that what he hadbeen to them he would always be—. Lord Falkland. From the portrait in the Bodleian Library. LORD FALKLAND 255 Yet did I love thee to the last,As fervently as thou Who didst not change through all the past,And canst not alter love where death has set his seal,Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,Nor falsehood disavow :And what were worse, thou canst not seeOr wrong, or change, or fault in me. Such, in the dark days which followed his death,must have been something of the feeling of hisfriends. Lucius was the son of Sir Henry Carey, firstViscount Falkland, who was for a time LordDeputy of Ireland. Though born in England, in 1610, probably inthe market-town of Burford, in Oxfordshire, Luciuswas educated chiefly in Ireland, where his fatherwent when he was twelve years old. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, where, asClarendon with a touch of insular prejudiceexpresses it, He learned all those exercises andlanguages better than most men do in morecelebrated places ; insomuch as whe
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