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, Those prudent heads that with their counsels wise And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise, So Ennius the Elder Africain; So Maro oft did Cæsar's cares allay. So, you, great Lord! that with your Counsel sway 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, For never can clean life and famous Herses sunder. (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. *The Faery Queen. And God did grace his mind and spirit with gifts excelling. Queen Eliz. (O God's dear handmaid) his most miracle; This blessed Queen, mirror of all that Albion rul'd, Gave Favour to his faith and precepts to his hopeful time: 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, Lord Chancellour (measure and conscience of a holy King). This tombe shows th' one; th' Heavens shrine the other. Franciscus Florus ad memoriam heri sui defuncti luctusq, sui solatium, Posuit. Anno Domini 1593. |