Note 11 — Chapter III
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Daughter of the first Earl of Devonshire, of the Cavendish family. She was celebrated by Sidney Godolphin in some very sweet lines, which contain a lovely female portrait. Waller's verses on her sudden death are remarkable for a signal instance of the Bathos,
That horrid word, at once like lightning spread, Struck all our ears,—the Lady Rich is dead!