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WILLIAM HABINGTON (1605-1654)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:HABINGTON (1605-1654)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born at Hendlip See also:Hall, See also:Worcestershire, on the 4th of See also:November 16o5 . He belonged to a well-known See also:Catholic See also:family . His See also:father, See also:Thomas See also:Habington (156o-1647), an See also:antiquary and See also:historical See also:scholar, had been implicated in the plots on behalf of See also:Mary See also:queen of Scots; his See also:uncle, See also:Edward Habington, was hanged in 1586 on the See also:charge of conspiring against See also:Elizabeth in connexion with See also:Anthony See also:Babington; while to his See also:mother, Mary Habington, was attributed the See also:revelation of the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot . The poet was sent to the See also:college at St Omer, but, pressure being brought to See also:bear on him to induce him to become a Jesuit, he removed to See also:Paris . He married about 1632 See also:Lucy, second daughter of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Herbert, first See also:Baron Powys . This See also:lady he had addressed in the See also:volume of lyrical poems arranged in two parts and entitled Castara, published anonymously in 1634 . In 1635 appeared a second edition enlarged by three See also:prose characters, fourteen new lyrics and eight touching elegies on his friend and kinsman, See also:George See also:Talbot . The third edition (164o) contains a third See also:part consisting of a prose See also:character of " A See also:Holy See also:Man " and twenty-two devotional poems . Habington's lyrics are full of the far-fetched " conceits " which were fashionable at See also:court, but his See also:verse is quite See also:free from the prevailing looseness of morals . Indeed his reiterated praises of Castara's virtue grow wearisome . He is at his best in his reflective poems on the uncertainty of human See also:life and kindred topics . He also wrote a Historie of Edward the See also:Fourth (164o), based on notes provided by his father; a tragi-See also:comedy, The Queene of Arragon (164o), published without his consent by his kinsman, the See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, and revived at the Restoration; and six essays on events in See also:modern See also:history, Observations upon History (1641) .

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Wood insinuated that during the See also:Commonwealth the poet" did run with the times, and was not unknown to See also:Oliver the usurper." He died on the 30th of November 16 J4 . The See also:works of Habington have not been collected . The Queene of Arragon was reprinted in See also:Dodsley's"Old Plays," vol.ix.(1825) ; Castara was edited by See also:Charles See also:Elton (1812), and by E .

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