The noise was probably some child falling from a chair overhead, or a chest of drawers being moved in an upper room; and if it _had_ been thunder in a clear sky, it was no more than Horace once heard. Heaven does not often express its approval of Deistical books. Lord Herbert, doubted of general, and yet believed in individual revelation. What crazy vanity, to think the work of an amateur philosopher of sufficient importance for a special revelation,[484] that (in his own opinion) had been denied to a neglected world! Lord Herbert, though refused the sacrament by Usher, bore it very serenely, asked what o’clock it was, then said, “An hour hence I shall depart,” turned his head to the other side, and expired.[485] He had moved to this quarter from King Street. Lord Herbert, though he wrote a Life to vindicate that brutal tyrant Henry VIII., was inconsistent enough to join the Parliament against a less wise but more illegal king, Charles I. When I pass down Queen Street, wondering whether that southern window of the Welsh knight’s vision was on the front of the south side, or on the back of the southern side of the street, I sometimes think of those soft lines of his upon the question “whether love should continue for ever?” “Having interr’d her infant birth, The watery ground that late did mourn Was strew’d with flowers for the return Of the wish’d bridegroom of the earth. “The well-accorded birds did sing Their hymns unto the pleasant time, And in a sweet consorted chime, Did welcome in the cheerful spring.” And then on my return home, I get out brave old Ben Jonson, and read his lines addressed to this last of the knights:-- “... and on whose every part Truth might spend all her voice, Fame all her art. Whether thy learning they would take, or wit, Or valour, or thy judgment seasoning it, Thy standing upright to thyself, thy ends Like straight, thy piety to God and friends.” Sir Thomas Fairfax, general of the Parliament, probably lived here, as he dated from this street a printed proclamation of the 12th of February 1648.