[125] Denham's Cooper's Hill:
——Great Edward, and thy greater son,
The lilies which his father wore, he won.
Edward III. claimed the crown of France by descent, and quartered the French fleur-de-lis on his shield before the victories of the Black Prince had made the assumption something more than an empty boast.
[126] Originally thus in the MS.
When brass decays, when trophies lie o'er-thrown,
And mould'ring into dust drops the proud stone,
From Windsor's roofs, &c.—Warburton.
[127] He was a Neapolitan. Without much invention, and with less taste, his exuberant pencil was ready at pouring out gods, goddesses, kings, emperors, and triumphs, over those public surfaces on which the eye never rests long enough to criticise,—I mean ceilings and staircases. Charles II. consigned over Windsor to his pencil. He executed most of the ceilings there, one whole side of St. George's Hall, and the chapel. On the accession of James II., Verrio was again employed at Windsor in Wolsey's Tomb-house.—Horace Walpole.
[128] Pope had in his head this couplet of Halifax:
The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms,
And bleed for ever scarlet in the looms.—Holt White.
[129] Henry VI.—Pope.
[130] Edward IV.—Pope.