An eye, a tongue, a hand, or some choice limb.
The author of this poem, A. Townsend, contributed also to the Knole papers a set of verses on the death of Charles I. “It is a shame,” he exclaims,
those that can write in verse,
Quite cover not with elegies his hearse,
and asks:
Where are the learned sisters, whose full breast
Was wont to yield such store of milk, unpressed?
The two sons of Edward, 4th Earl of Dorset:
RICHARD, LORD BUCKHURST; THE HON. EDWARD SACKVILLE
From the portrait at Knole by Cornelius Nuie
The King, he says, was