heat, called in one of thofe fcourges of mankind, who, by their want of fkill, and their confidence in their own powers, difgrace one of the most honourable profeffions. He, by repeated-bleedings, deprived his patient of the very little strength he had left, and brought him to the grave.

Raphael's manners were extremely elegant, and his converfation fo highly pleafing, that he was continually attended by many of the young men of rank in Rome. This gave occafion to his ftern rival Michael Angelo to tell him one day, when he met him in the ftreet thus honourably followed: "So, Sir, you are there, I fee, like a "Prince attended by his Courtiers?" Yes," replied Raphael, and you, I fee, are like the "Hangman, attended by no one,"

Raphael, like all other perfons who were ever eminently diftinguished, improved progreffively. His own good tafte made him break through the hard and dry manner of his mafter; and when he had feen the Capella Seftina of Michael Angelo, he found out his own deficiencies, and added the grandand the fublime to the beautiful and the grace

It was an obfervation of the celebrated Author of The Wealth of Nations," that, when he was a Profeffor at Glasgow, he had hardly ever feen a young man come to any eminence, who was foon fatisfied with his own compofitions.

ful,

ful. Raphael's talents are more confpicuous in his pictures in water-colours than in thofe in oil. His Cartoons are, affuredly, the triumph of his genius. England poffeffes four of these great works, befides those in the Royal Collection at Windfor: two at Boughton, near Kettering in Northamptonshire, the feat of the late Duke of Montague; the one the Vifion of Ezekiel, the other a Holy Family. The Duke of Beaufort, at his feat of Badminton, near Bath, has a Holy Family in cartoon by Raphael. Another cartoon, by the fame mafter, reprefenting the Maffacre of the Innocents, was in the poffeffion of the late ingenious and excellent Mr. Hoare of Bath.

HENRY THE EIGHTH,

KING OF ENGLAND.

ACCORDING to Hollinfhed, this Prince thus addreffed the Court at Black Fryers:

"YE REVEREND FATHERS,

"I HAVE in marriage a wyfe to me moft "deere, & entirely beloved, both for hyr fingular "virtues of mynde, & alfo for her nobilities of

"birth.

birth. But fith I am the king of a mightie king"dom, I must provide that it may be lawful for "me to lye with hyr duely, lawfully, & godlye, & "to have children by her, unto the whiche the inheritance of the kingdome maie by righte "mofte juftlie defcende; which two things fhall "follow, if you by jufte judgement approve our "marriage lawful: if there be any doubte, I fhall "defyre you by your authoritie to declare the

fame, or fo to take it awaie, that in this thing "both my confcience & the mynds of the people 86 may be quieted for after."

"After this," adds Hollinfhed, "cometh the Queen, the which there, in prefence of the "whole Court, accufeth the Cardinal of untrouth, "deceit, wickedneffe & malice, which had fowen "diffention betwixt her & the King her husbande,

& therefore openly protefted that she did utterly "abhorre, refufe, and forfake such a judge as was "not only a moft malicious enemie to her, but "alfo a manifeft adverfarie to all right & juftice,

and therefore fhe did appeale unto the Pope, "committynge hir whole caufe to be judged of "him:& thus for that day the matter refted."

The following lines, written by Henry, were (according to the Editor of the "Nuga Antique") prefented and fung to Anna Bullen during the time

of

of their courtship. Byrd, in Queen Elizabeth's time, fet them to mufic.

The eagle's force fubdues eache byrde that flies,
What metal can refifte the flamynge fire?

Doth not the funne dazzle the cleareft eyes,

And melte the ice, and make the fnowe retire? The hardeste ftones are peirced thro' with tooles ; The wifeft are, with princes, made but fooles.

This Monarch's character was, perhaps, never better defcribed than in the dying words of Car dinal Wolfey to Mafter Kingfton, the Lieutenant of the Tower, who was fent to arreft him: "Hee

is a Prince of a moft royall carriage & hath a "princely heart, & rather than hee will miffe or "want any part of his will, he will endanger the "one half of his kingdom. I do affure you, "Mafter Kingston, that I have often kneeled before him for three hours together to perfuade

him from his will and appetite, but could never "prevail. Therefore let me advife you, if you be "one of the Privie Counfell (as by your wifdome t you are fit), take heed what you put into the King's head, for you can never put it out again."

It appears by a Letter of Gerard de Plaine, that Henry entered into a treaty with the Emperor Maximilian, by which, for a certain fum of money given to him by Henry, Maximilian was

to

to furrender the Imperial dignity to him. It feems as if Henry had not the money ready at the time that the diftreffed Emperor wifhed to exchange his fplendid honour for more substantial profit.

The following anecdote of Henry is taken from Puttenham's "Art of Poetry."

"I Have heard that King Henry the Eight, her "Majefties father, though otherwife the most "gentle and affable Prince of the world, could "not abide to have any man ftare in his face, or

to fix his eye too fteadily upon him, when he "talked with them; nor for a common fuitor to "exclame or cry out for juftice, for that is "offenfive, and as it were a fecret impeachment "of his wrong-doing, as happened once to á "Knight in this realm, of great worship, speaking to the King.

"King Henry the Eight, to one that entreated "him to remember one Sir Anthony Roufe with "fome reward, for that he had spent much and was an ill begger; the King aunfwer'd (noting "his infolencie), If he be afhamed to begge, we

are afhamed to give; and was neverthelesse 66 one of the most liberal Princes of the world.”

PRINCESS