And so, Vice-Chamberlain, where foreign princes eyes
Might well admire her choyce, wherein she most excels.
He then aspires, says the writer, to "the highest subject's seat," and becomes
Lord Chancelour (measure and conscience of a holy king:)
Robe, Collar, Garter, dead figures of great honour,
Alms-deeds with faith, honest in word, frank in dispence,
The poor's friend, not popular, the church's pillar.
This tombe sheweth one, the heaven's shrine the other.[30]
The first line in italics, and the poetry throughout, are only to be equalled by a passage in an epitaph we have met with on a Lady of the name of Greenwood, of whom her husband says:—
"Her graces and her qualities were such