This man dying greatly in debt, and being a bankrupt, one of his creditors, being ruined by him, wrote under it:—
And the Lord answered and said,—
“Because thy debts a’nt paid!”
ROXWELL.
J. F. Hefeall.
With long affliction I was sore oppressed,
Till God in goodness kindly gave me rest;
I left my widow’d wife and children dear
To His all gracious, providential care,
Who said do thou alone depend—
Who am the widow and the orphan’s friend.
STONDON.
“Who lists to se and knowe himselfe,
May loke upon this glase,
And vew the beaten pathe of dethe,
Which he shall one day passe;
Which way J. Rainford Kellingworth,
With patient mind, have gone,—
Whose body here, as death hath changed,
Lies covered with this stone;
When dust to dust is brought again,
The earth she hath her owne,—
This shall the lot of all men be,
Before the trumpe be blowne!”
April 17th, 1575.
WALTHAM ABBEY.
To Sir Edward Denny.
“Learn, curious reader, ere thou pass,
That once Sir Edward Denny was
A courtier of the chamber,
A soldier of the fielde,—
Whose tongue could never flatter,
Whose heart could never yield!”