Sketch after a lost portrait of Nicholas Stone the Younger

Thomas Pecke (1637—c. 1664) published the above ode in 1659, just four years before the death of its dedicatee, Sir William Paston, first Baronet (1610–1663).The ode was published in Pecke’s Parnassi Puerperium, 1659, 179; McLellan, “Pecke, Thomas (b. 1637, d. in or after...