In the worst inn’s worst room, with mat half hung
  The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung,
  On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with straw,
  With tape-ty’d curtains, never meant to draw,
  The George and Garter dangling from that bed,
  Where tawdry yellow, strove with dirty red,
  Great Villiers lies—­alas! how chang’d from him
  That life of pleasure, and that foul of whim! 
  Gallant and gay, in Cliveden’s proud alcove,
  The bow’r of wanton Shrewsbury[3] and love;
  Or just as gay in council, in a ring
  Of mimick’d statesmen and their merry king. 
  No wit to flatter left of all his store! 
  No fool to laugh at, which he valued more;
  There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends,
  And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. 
  His grace’s fate, sage Cutler could foresee,
  And well (he thought) advised him, ‘live like me.’ 
  As well, his grace replied, ’like you, Sir John! 
  That I can do, when all I have is gone:’ 

Besides the celebrated Comedy of the Rehearsal, the duke wrote the following pieces;

1.  An Epitaph on Thomas, Lord Fairfax, which has been often reprinted.

2.  A Short Discourse upon the Reasonableness of Men’s having a Religion or Worship of God.  This Piece met with many Answers, to which, the Duke wrote Replies.

3.  A Demonstration of the above Duty.

4.  Several Poems, particularly, Advice to a Painter to draw my Lord Arlington.  Timon, a Satire on several Plays, in which he was assisted by the Earl of Rochester; a Consolatory Epistle to Julian Secretary to the Muses; upon the Monument; upon the Installment of the Duke of Newcastle; the Rump-Parliament, a Satire; the Mistress; the Lost Mistress; a Description of Fortune.

5.  Several Speeches.

Footnotes: 
1.  B. vi. vol. ii. p. 347.
2.  T.C.
3.  The countess of Shrewsbury, a woman abandoned to gallantries.  The
   earl her husband was killed by the duke of Buckingham; and it has
   been said that, during the combat, she held the duke’s horses in
   the habit of a page.

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MatthewSmith, Esquire.

(The following Account of this Gentleman came to our Hands too late to be inserted in the Chronological Series.)

This gentleman was the son of John Smith, an eminent Merchant at Knaresborough in the county of York, and descended from an ancient family of that name, seated at West-Herrington and Moreton House in the county pal. of Durham.  Vide Philpot’s Visitation of Durham, in the Heralds Office, page 141.

He was a Barrister at Law, of the Inner-Temple, and appointed one of the council in the North, the fifteenth of King Charles I. he being a Loyalist, and in great esteem for his eminence and learning in his profession; as still further appears by his valuable Annotations on Littleton’s Tenures he left behind him in manuscript.  He also wrote some pieces of poetry, and is the author of two dramatical performances.