Richard Lovelace

Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. &c. to Which is Added, Aramantha, a Pastoral Richard Lovelace

There is something so interesting in the particulars Wood has left us of the life of the author of the following poems, that I shall do little more than abstract his account. Richard Lovelace, the eldest son of Sir William Lovelace of Woolwich, inK ent, was bom in 1618; and entered on his studies at the Charter-house, from whence he went toO xford and became a genU eman commoner of Gloucester-hall in 1634, being then 16 years old. He was accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld, of innate modesty, virtue, and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex. In 1636, on the king and queens visit toO xford, he was at the request of a great lady belonging to the queen created Master of A rts, although but of two years standing; his conversation and conduct on this occasion displayed his ingenuity and generous soul, and he became as much the idol of the male as he was before of the female sex.
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