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ter of Dr. Lancelot Browne, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth, and I do not think we need go much further in order to picture to ourselves the society in which he lived, that of the ‘old courtiers of the Queen,’ which the old song contrasts, as we do not forget, with that of the ‘King’s young courtiers.’
Still these fancies, though they may serve to please the imagination, and to lend colour to an outhne painfully indistinct, make no real addition to our knowledge of the inner life of Harvey, any more than does the fact that he attended Charles the First’s kinsman, the young Duke of Lennox,[1] to the Continent in 1630; or
- ↑ James Stuart, 4th Duke of Lennox, son of Esme, 3rd Duke, nephew of Lodowick, 2nd Duke of Lennox, and 11th Duke of Richmond, acceded to the title in 1625; created Grandee of Spain while abroad on his travels; on return made P. C. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,and K. G.; married the Lady Mary Villiers, daughter of George, Duke of Buckingham; was one of the mourners who attended
stitione, magnificum sine luxu, munificum sine commemoratione, nitidum sine curiositate, facuadum sine tædio, prudentem sine fraude, amicum sine fine, opulentum sine injuriâ, cœlibem sine mollitie, historicum sine studio partium, poetam sine nugis, oratorem sine calamistris, philosophum sine sophismatibus, et medicum denique sine omni histrioniâ.’
