Famous aliue, and dead, here is the ods,
Then God of Poets, nowe Poet of the Gods.
March 29, 1602.
I sawe Dr. Parryes[19] picture with a Bible in his hand, the word upon it, Huic credo, and over his heade an heaven, with a motto, Hoc spero.
Epigram; Mr. Kedgwyn.
The radiant splendor[20] of Tom Hortons nose
Amates the ruby and puts downe the rose,
Had I a iewell of soe rich an hewe,
I would present it to some monarchs viewe,
Subjects ought not to weare such gemms as those,
Therefore our Prince shall have Tom Horton's nose!
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fo. 2b.Epitaph in the Chauncery[21] at Sandey in Bedford[shire.]
Cur caro lætatur dum vermibus esca paratur?
Terræ terra datur, caro nascitur ut moriatur;
Terram terra tegat, demon peccata resumat,
Mundus res habeat, spiritus alta petat.
Why growes our fleshe so proud,
Whiles 'tis but made wormes foode?
This earth must turne to earth.
To dye flesh tooke it birth,
The earth our earth must hyde,
Our synnes the deuill betyde,
The world our goodes must haue,
And God our soules will saue.
fo. 3.Certayne devises and empresaes taken by the scucheons in the Gallery[22] at Whitehall; 19 Martij 1601.
The scucheon, twoe windmilles crosse sailed, and all the verge of the scucheon poudred with crosses crosselets, the word Vndique cruciatus. Vnder written these verses: