Note 49 — Chapter III · The Host conducts the Angler and Painter to Beresford Hall and Mr. Cotton’s Fishing House on the River Dove.

Thomas Flatman. His poems were first published in 1674, 8vo. The ballad here alluded to will be found at p. 121. He afterwards took to him a wife, and was serenaded by his companions with his own contumelious song against marriage. His own portrait designed by himself, is prefixed to his Poems: and the following lines, in his ‘Pindarique Ode, The Review’ are a testimony to his practice of limning;

‘To extricate myself from Love,

‘Which I could ill obey, but worse command,

‘I took my Pensils in my hand;

‘With that artillery for conquest strove:

‘Like wise Pigmalion thus did I

‘Myself design my Deity.

‘If she did frown, one dash could make her smile,

‘All bickerings one easy stroke could reconcile:

‘Thus did I quiet many a froward day,

‘While in my eyes my soul did play.’—Ed.