while he preserved his hair wherein his strength lay, was still victor over his enemies; but when (by the enticement of his Dalilah) his hair was cut off, the Philistines came upon him, and overcame him. And so, my lords, if we shall preserve and husband well our treasure, wherein our strength and the sinews of war lye, and apply it to the right uses; we shall still be superior to all our enemies; but if we shall vainly and imprudently mis-spend it, we shall become an casie prey to them 9."]

9 An anonymous poem entitled The Lord Lucas's Ghost, was printed in vol. i. of Poems on Affairs of State, 1703; but does not appear, as lord Orford believed, to have any connexion with this speech.

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ANNE HYDE,

DUCHESS OF YORK,

[DAUGHTER to Edward, earl of Clarendon, and maid of honour to the princess royal. The duke of York tried to gain her to comply with his illicit desires, but she managed her paramour with so much address, that in conclusion he married her; though the marriage was for some time kept secret. On proving pregnant in 1660, her father called upon the duke to own her as his wife: the duke, however, thought to have shaken her from this claim by great promises and great threats; but she was a woman of high spirit, and told him "she was his wife, and would have it known that she was so, let him use her afterwards as he pleased.” Charles the second ordered the bishops and judges to examine the proofs she had to produce; and they reported, that, according to the doctrine of the gospel and the law of England, it was a good marriage.

Bishop Burnet, from his personal knowledge, has described the duchess of York as 66 a very extraordinary woman; who had great knowledge, and a lively sense of things. She soon understood what belonged to a princess; and took state on her rather too much. She writ well; and had begun the duke's life, of which she shewed me a volume. It was all drawn

Lord Orford conceived that this might have been the work mentioned in the article of James the second. See vol.i. p. 158.

From a drawing in the Coll" of Alex Hendras Sutherland Efq?

24 Mar 20 1805 by J. Sest 412 Strand.

from his Journal: and he intended to have employed me in carrying it on. She was bred to great strictness in religion, and practised secret confession. She was generous and friendly; but was too severe an enemy 3." The same reputable writer has given a particular account of her grace's death, and of the circumstances attending it; and concludes by saying, that she died very little beloved or lamented; the change of her religion having made her friends reckon her death rather a blessing than a loss at that time to them all. Her father was more troubled at her religious defection than at all his own misfortunes; and wrote her a very long and grave letter upon it, enclosed in one to the duke of York: but she was dead before it came to England 4.

Waller addressed a poem to the princess of Orange, on this lady's having "written her portrait," while she was her maid of honour, which concludes with these high-flown lines:

"While some your beauty, some your bounty sing,
Your native isle does with your praises ring:
But above all, a nymph of your own train,
Gives us your character in such a strain,

As none but she, who in that court did dwell
Could know such worth; or worth describe so well:
So, while we mortals here at heav'n do guess,
And more our weakness, than the place express;
Some angel, a domestic there, comes down
And tells the wonders he hath seen and known."]

• Hist. of the Reign of Charles the Second, vol. i. p. 238.

• Burnet's Hist. ib. p. 433.

• Lady Anne Hyde. See Fenton's Waller, p. 141.