We were told the present Mr. Waller was a plain country gentleman; and his son would be such another.

"Waller" is the native word for trader, and his grandfather was engaged in selling and manufacturing bottles.

Waller, who followed the court to Paris, was the author of two songs, which are still favorites, Go, Lovely Rose, and On a Girdle, and he first introduced the smooth, correct manner of writing in couplets, which Dryden and Pope carried to perfection.

Conway, too, maintains his innocence, and as Waller is the only evidence against either him or Portland, both are, after a long imprisonment, admitted to bail.

Accounts vary as to his proficiencyone Bigge, who had been his school-fellow at Wickham, told Aubrey that he never expected Waller to have become such an eminent poet, and that he used to write his exercises for him.

Waller was not a very creative spirit; but here he was true to his class, and failed like a very poet.

A middling poet, a pitiful politician, a fickle dangler in affairs of love, Waller was an admirable host, and not only gave good dinners and suppers, but flavoured them delicately with compliment and repartee.