“But soon, within that mirror huge and high, Was seen a self-emitted light to gleam; And forms upon its breast the Earl ’gan spy, Cloudy and indistinct, as feverish dream; Till, slow arranging, and defined, they seem To form a lordly and a lofty room, Part lighted by a lamp with silver beam. Placed by a couch of Agra’s silken loom, And part by moonshine pale, and part was hid in gloom. “Fair all the pageant--but how passing fair The slender form, which lay on couch of Ind! O’er her white bosom stray’d her hazel hair, Pale her dear cheek, as if for love she pined; All in her night-robe loose she lay reclined, And, pensive, read from tablet eburine, Some strain that seem’d her inmost soul to find:-- That favour’d strain was SURREY’S raptured line, That fair and lovely form, the LADY GERALDINE.” Within the narrow limits to which this work is necessarily restricted, it is impossible to do justice to this melancholy subject, which of itself has afforded, and would again afford, matter sufficient to form a volume of the deepest interest. It has, however, long since engaged the genius of Campbell and some of the best spirits of our literature, in whose works the name and fame of Henry Howard are embalmed. Thomas, the eldest son of the “murdered Surrey,” was restored to the dukedom of Norfolk by Queen Elizabeth. Loaded with many honours and dignities which evinced the entire confidence she reposed in him, all appeared to augur that so brilliant a career would have closed in a tranquil night. But the evil genius, which presided over his worldly destinies, was yet to be appeased. The orders of knighthood; the captain generalship of the forces the embassies and commissions, with which he was successively honoured by his sovereign, were only preludes to the last sad history of his life:-- He did but dream on sovereignty, Like one that stands upon a promontory, And spies a far-off shore, where he would tread, Wishing his foot were equal with his eye, And chides the sea that sunders him from thence. KING HENRY VI. Having received his early education under Fox, the martyrologist, then tutor in the family of his aunt, the Duchess of Richmond, he took the degree of master of arts at Cambridge, on the grand reception and entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at that University.