recorded and mentioned wheresoever his Gospel should be read; intending thereby, that as his, so her name should also live to succeeding generations, till even time itself shall be no more. Upon occasion of which fair example, I did lately look back, and not without some content, (at least to myself,) that I have endeavoured to deserve the love, and preserve the memory of my two deceased friends, Dr. Donne and Sir Henry Wotton, by declaring the several employments and various accidents of their lives. And though Mr. George Herbert (whose life I now intend to write) were to me a stranger as to his person, for I have only seen him; yet since he was, and was worthy to be, their friend, and very many of his have been mine, I judge it may not be unacceptable to those that knew any of them in their lives, or do now know them by mine or their own writings, to see this conjunction of them after their deaths; without which, many things that concerned them, and some things that concerned the age in which they lived, would be less perfect, and lost to posterity. For these reasons I have undertaken it; and if I have prevented any abler person, I beg pardon of him and my reader. THE LIFE OF MR GEORGE HERBEIT. GEORGE HERBERT was born the thi las in the year of our redemption 1 in that ca fie that di 1 Hond to their pour a willingness to serve then t do good to all mankin'; for wZNALA neut. But glas! This tan the lion suffer ex reinely in thei of that le saw it laid level wi was we good to bury those wretches cause of it. The father of our George was I the son of Edward Herbert, Kat., t.. Habert, kut., the son of the to Herbert, of Colebrook, in the Banneret, who was the you ( pla ; and the news hat earth Phat at were the had it hert. ↑ Rie' and as 21. Richard + Moameutr ther of t memorable William Herpert, Eari of Pembroke, that lived in the reign of our King Edward IV. His mother was Magdalen Newport, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard, and sister to Sir Francis |