fortunes."

In 1654 Queen Henrietta, under influence of a new confessor, had
left the Louvre, and, with the little daughter born at Exeter, taken
up her quarters in a foundation of her own, at Chaillot, for nuns of
the visitation of St. Mary. Lord Jermyn having little use left for
a secretary in Paris, Cowley in 1656, after twelve years' service in
France, was sent to England that he might there live in the
retirement he preferred, and with the understanding that he would be
able to send information upon the course of home affairs. In
England he was presently seized by mistake for another man, and,
when his name and position were known, he was imprisoned, until a
friendly physician, Sir Charles Scarborough, undertook to be
security in a thousand pounds for his good conduct. In this year,
1656, Cowley published the first folio volume of his Poems, prepared
in prison, and suggested, he said, by his finding, when he returned
to England, a book called "The Iron Age," which had been published
as his, and caused him to wonder that any one foolish enough to
write such bad verses should yet be so wise as to publish them under
another man's name. Cowley thought then that he had taken leave of
verse, which needed less troubled times for its reading, and a mind
less troubled in the writer. He left out of his book, he said, the
pieces written during the Civil War, including three books of the
Civil War itself, reaching as far as the first battle of Newbury.
These he had burnt, for, he said, "I would have it accounted no less
unlawful to rip up old wounds than to give new ones." "When the
event of battle and the unaccountable Will of God has determined the
controversy, and that we have submitted to the will of the
conqueror, we must lay down our pens as well as arms." The first
part of this folio contained early poems; the second part "The