All white, a virgin saint, she sought the skies, High tho' her wit, yet humble was her mind, For human thoughts, but was confin'd to pray'r; Peterborough Cathedral. ON OLD SCARLET THE SEXTON. Above the epitaph is his picture: he is represented holding the keys of the Cathedral in one hand, a shovel in the other, a skull and mattock under his feet. You see old Scarlet's picture stand on hie, His graue stone doth his age,* and death tyme show, * Aged 95 (others according to Hacket, 98) ob. July 2, 1594, R. S. + Queen Catherine of Arragon, wife to Henry VIII. and Mary Queen of Scots, afterwards removed to Westminster. Westminster Abbey, Poet's Corner. On the right hand of Shakespeare's monument, To the memory of NICHOLAS ROWE, Esa. Who died in 1710, aged 45; Who inheriting her father's spirit, Thy reliques, Rowe, to this sad shrine we trust, To these, so mourn'd in death, so lov'd in life, Minster Church Yard, Kent. ON MR. WORTH, A GUNNER, Who died August 26, 1779. Whoe'er thou art, if here by wisdom led, To view the silent mansions of the dead; And search for truth from life's last mournful page, Where malice stings not, nor where slanders rage; Read on-no bombast swells these friendly lines, Here truth unhonour'd and unvarnish'd shines; I Where o'er yon sod an envious nettle creeps, In St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. To the memory of JOHN LORD RUSSELL, (Son and heir to Francis Earl of Bedford), By Elizabeth daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, He is represented in a cumbent posture, habited in his robes, with his infant son at his feet. His lady was esteemed the greatest female genius of her age, being well versed in the learned languages, and an excellent poet. On the tomb are five epitaphs of her composition, three in Latin, one in Greek, and the following in English. The purport of the others are much the same. Right noble twice, by virtue and by birtli, The indictment against lord Russell was in substance, for conspiring the death of the king, intending to levy war; and in order thereto, to seize the guards. When lord Russell came into court, he desired a delay of his trial until the next day; because some of his witnesses could. not arrive in town until the evening Sawyer, the attorney general, with an inhuman repartee, answered, “But you did not intend to have granted the king the delay of an hour for saving his life;" and refused his consent to the request. Russell having asked leave of the court, that notes of the evidence for his use might be taken by the hand of another; the attor ney general, in order to prevent him of getting the aid of council, told him he might use the hand of one of his servants in writing, if he pleased. "I ask none," answered the pri soner, "but that of the lady who sits by me." When the spectators, at these words turned their eyes, and beheld the daughter of the virtuous Southampton, rising up to assist her lord in this his utmost distress, a thrill of anguish ran through the assembly: but when in his defence, he said, "there can be no rehellion now, as in former times, for there are now no great men left in England," a pang of a different nature was felt by those who thought on the public.-Howard was the chief witness against him. |