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from Spenser concerning him, and also the lines on the

monument.

If I have wearied you I am more than sorry, but, at least, I shall have spared you the trouble of journeying to St. Paul's Cathedral to see what is not there.

SPENSER'S TRIBUTE TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON,
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.

Those prudent heads that with their counsels wise
Whilom the pillars of th' earth did sustain;

And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise,
And in the neck of all the world to reign,
Oft from these grave affairs were wont t'abstain,
With the sweet Lady-Muses for to play.

So Ennius the Elder Africain;

So Maro oft did Cæsar's cares allay.

So, you, great Lord! that with your Counsel sway
The burden of this Kingdom mightily;

With like delights sometimes may eke delay

The rugged brow of careful policy;

And to these idle rhymes lend little space,

Which for their title's sake may find more grace.

From DUGDALE'S St. Paul's Cathedral.

In tabula quadam columnae, juxta hujusmodi Monumentum affixa.

Stay and behold the mirror of a Dead Man's House,
Whose lively Person would have made thee stay and wonder.
Look, and withall learn to know how to live and die renowned

For never can clean life and famous Herses sunder.
Hatton lies here, unto whose name Hugh Lupus gave.

(Lupus the sister's sonne of William Conquerour)

For Nigel his dear servant's sake worship and laud:

Lo there the spring: look here the honour of his ancestry.
When nature moulded him her thoughts were most on Mars!
And all the Heavens to make him goodly were agreeing.
Thence was he valiant, active, strong and passing comely

*The Faery Queen.

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And God did grace his mind and spirit with gifts excelling.
Nature commends her workmanship to Fortune's charge
Fortune presents him to the Court and Queen,

Queen Eliz. (O God's dear handmaid) his most miracle;
Now hearken, Reader-rarietie not heard or seen-

This blessed Queen, mirror of all that Albion rul'd,

Gave Favour to his faith and precepts to his hopeful time:
First trained him in the stately band of Pensioners.
Behold how humble hearts make easie steps to clime.
High carriage, honest life, heart ever loyall,

Diligence, delight in duty God did reward.

So did this worthy Queen in her thoughts of him,

And for her safety made him Captain of the Guard.

Now doth she prune this vine and from her sacred heart,
Lessons his life, makes wise his heart for her great Councell.
And so Vice-Chamberlain where foreign princes' ey's
Might well admire her choyce wherein she most excels.
So sweetly tempered was his soul with vertuous balme.
Religious, just to God and Cæsar in each thing
That he aspired to the highest subject's seat

Lord Chancellour (measure and conscience of a holy King).
Robe, Collar, Garter, dead figures of great Honour
Alms-deeds with Faith, honest in word, franke in dispence
The Poor's friend, not popular; the Churche's pillar.

This tombe shows th' one; th' Heavens shrine the other.

Franciscus Florus ad memoriam heri sui defuncti luctusq, sui solatium, Posuit. Anno Domini 1593.

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