Thomas was a clergyman; Henry a doctor of medicine.

Both were Royalists, and both suffered in the cause--Thomas by expulsion from his living, Henry by imprisonment.

Thomas died soon after the Restoration; Henry outlived the Revolution.
Henry Vaughan was then nearly thirty years younger than George Herbert, whom he consciously and intentionally imitates.

His art is not comparable to that of Herbert: hence Herbert remains the master; for it is not the thought that makes the poet; it is the utterance of that thought in worthy presence of speech.

He is careless and somewhat rugged.