‘Of person rare, stronge limbes, and manly shape;
Of nature framed to serve on sea and lande, etc.,
A subject true to Kinge, frinde to God’s truth’—
and so forth, concluding with the lines:—
‘Yet againste nature, reason, and just lawes,
His blode was spilte, giltless, without just cause!’
The Bishop and the Poet were at variance in the estimate of Lord Seymour of Sudeley’s character.
No. 12.
THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, LAST EARL OF