Which was reported strongly for one tyde, But, after six houres floating, ebb’d and dyde. If God would not this great designe should be Perfect and round without some knavery, Nor that our prince should end this enterprize, But for soe many miles, soe many lyes: If for a good event the Heav’ns doe please Mens tongues should become rougher then the seas, And that th’ expence of paper shall be such, First written, then translated out of Dutch: Corantoes, diets, packets, newes, more newes, Which soe much innocent whitenesse doth abuse; If first the Belgicke[76] pismire must be seene, Before the Spanish lady be our queene; With such successe, and such an end at last, All’s wellcome, pleasant, gratefull, that is past. And such an end wee pray that you should see, A type of that which mother Zebedee Wisht for her sonnes in heav’n; the prince and you At either hand of James, (you need not sue) Hee on the right, you on the left, the king Safe in the mids’t, you both invironing. Then shall I tell my lord, his word and band Are forfeit, till I kisse the princes hand; Then shall I tell the duke, your royall friend Gave all the other honours, this you earn’d; This you have wrought for; this you hammer’d out Like a strong Smith, good workman and a stout. In this I have a part, in this I see Some new addition smiling upon mee: Who, in an humble distance, claime a share In all your greatnesse, what soe ere you are. RICHARD, THE THIRD EARL OF DORSET, Is described by his wife, the celebrated lady Anne Clifford, daughter of George earl of Cumberland, in the manuscript memoirs of her life, as a man “in his own nature of a just mind, of a sweet disposition, and very valiant in his own person. He had a great advantage in his breeding, by the wisdom and devotion of his grandfather, Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset, and lord high treasurer of England, who was then held one of the wisest of that time; by which means he was so good a scholar in all manner of learning, that, in his youth, when he was at the university, there was none of the young nobility then students there that excelled him. He was also a good patriot to his country, and generally well beloved in it; much esteemed in all the parliaments that sat in his time, and so great a lover of scholars and soldiers, as that, with an excessive bounty towards them, or indeed any of worth that were in distress, he did much diminish his estate; and also with excessive prodigality in house-keeping, and other noble ways at court, as tilting, masking, and the like; prince Henry being then alive, who was much addicted to those noble exercises, and of whom he was much beloved.” He died at the age of 35, March 28th, 1624.