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By holy Mary! Butts, there's knavery. / / SHAKSPEARE.
Having consigned the Lady Frances Cromwell to her perfumed couch, and the companionship of Waller's sweet and sonorous strains, we leave her to determine whether the high and mighty Lady Dorothea Sidney, the Poet's Saccharissa, or the gentle Lady Sophia Murray, the beauteous Amoret of his idolatry, were most worthy the affection he so generously bestowed on both. Waller, the most specious flatterer of flattering courts -- the early worshipper of Charles the First -- the pusillanimous betrayer of his friends -- the adulator of Cromwell -- the wit and the jester of the second Charles -- the devotional whiner of the bigot James -- had not, however, sufficient power to keep the lady from her slumbers long. She was soon in the refreshing sleep, known only to the light-hearted.