Note 44 — Chapter III · The Host conducts the Angler and Painter to Beresford Hall and Mr. Cotton’s Fishing House on the River Dove.

Colonel Richard Lovelace inscribes a panegyric to him in his Lucasta. And the following lines of Mr. Charles Cotton, addressed to the painter on another occasion, are applicable to his own portrait, and testify to the familiarity between the poet and the painter:—

‘Nature and art are here at strife;

‘This shadow comes so near to life,

‘Sit still, dear Lely, thou’st done that

‘Thyself must love and wonder at.’

From a poem of Mr. Cotton’s, ‘To my friend Mr. Lely, on his picture of the excellently virtuous lady, the Lady Isabella Thynne,’ Poems on several Occasions. Printed 1689, 8º.—Ed.