kespeare Memorial Gallery at
Stratford-on-Avon. Mireveldt twice painted the Earl at a later period of
his career; one of the pictures is now at Woburn Abbey, the property of
the Duke of Bedford, the other is at the National Portrait Gallery. A
fifth picture, assigned to Mytens, belongs to Viscount Powerscourt; a
sixth, by an unknown artist, belongs to Mr. Wingfield Digby, and the
seventh (in armour) is in the Master's Lodge at St. John's College,
Cambridge, where Southampton was educated. The miniature by Isaac
Oliver, which also represents Southampton in late life, was formerly in
Dr. Lumsden Propert's collection. It now belongs to a collector at
Hamburg. The two miniatures assigned to Peter Oliver belong respectively
to Mr. Jeffery Whitehead and Sir Francis Cook, Bart. (Cf. Catalogue of
Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures at the Burlington Fine Arts Club,
London, 1889, pp. 32, 71, 100.) In all the best preserved of these
portraits the eyes are blue and the hair a dark shade of auburn. Among
the middle-life portraits Southampton appears to best advantage in the
one by Van Somer belonging to Mr. James Knowles.

{145} I describe these pictures from a personal inspection of them which
the Duke kindly permitted me to make.

{146a} Cf. Shakespeare's Sonnet iii.:

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

{146b} Southampton's singularly long hair procured him at times
unwelcome attentions. When, in January 1598, he struck Ambrose
Willoughby, an esquire of the body, for asking him to break off owing to
the lateness of the hour, a game of primero that he was playing in the
royal chamber at Whitehall, the esquire Willoughby is stated to have
retaliated by 'pulling off some of the Earl's locks.' On the incident
being reported to the Queen, she 'gave Willoughby, in the presence,
thanks for what he did' (_Sydney Papers_, ii. 83).

{148a} These quotations are from _Sorrowes Joy_, a collection of elegies
on Queen Elizabeth by Cambridge writers (Cambridge, 1603), and from
Chettle's _England's Mourning Garment_, London, 1603).

{148b} Gervase Markham's _Honour in her Perfection_, 1624.

{149a} Manningham's _Diary_, Camden Soc., p. 148.

{149b} _Court and Times of James I_, I. i. 7.

{149c} See Appendix IV.

{152} The fine exordium of Sonnet cxix.:

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,

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