Note 265 — THE QUEEN OF ARRAGON.
Reading edition
In a poem on p. 104 of his "Castara," 1640, Habington claims alliance with several noble families—
"Now I resolve, in triumph of my verse, To bring great Talbot from that foreign herse Which yet doth to her fright his dust enclose: Then to sing Herbert, who so glorious rose With the fourth Edward, that his faith doth shine Yet in the faith of noble Pembroke's line. Sometimes my swelling spirits I prepare To speak the mighty Percy, nearest heir In merits, as in blood, to Charles the Great: Then Derby's worth and greatness to repeat; Or Morley's honour, or Mounteagle's fame, Whose valour lives eterniz'd in his name: But while I think to sing those of my blood, And my Castaras," &c.
—Collier.