Excerpt from Habington's Castara: With a Preface and Notes William Babington was born at Hendlip, in Worcestershire, on the 4th or 5th of November, 1605 and received his education at St. Omer's and in Paris. He was earnestly pressed by the Jesuits to belong to their order; and, to avoid their impor tunities, returned to England, where he finished his studies under the immediate eye of his father and applied himself, in particular, to history. Re. Port speaks of him as an accomplished gentle, man. He married Lucia, daughter, of \villiam lord Powis; the lady whom he has celebrated under the name of Castara, and who is described by Winstanly, in his lives of the poets, as a lady of rare endowments and beauty. Habing ton died November 30th, 1654: one year after Cromwell'rfiis elevation to the protectorship; and was buried in the family vault at Hendlip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.