They would have pay’d his funerall
T’ have toomb’d him in their temple.
[*] Though a paragon, she lived, he would say, a quiet, retired life, obedient and loving to her husband.
[†] “Countrie”, seems not unlikely to be used here, as in the Discoverie not unfrequently, and twice in Wood’s notice just given, and, as then, for county.
[‡] “Meane”, that is, moderate, midway between the very rich and the poor.
[§] “Envied”, most probably in its then frequent sense of hated.
Before returning to Richard and Reginald, we may conclude this short notice of their ancestors by mentioning the very probable circumstance that the former were, by the female line, descendants of John Gower, the poet, as explained in the following table:
