Hunt, Thomas Frederick; Moyes, James [Oth.]: Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted To Modern Habitations: With Illustrative Details, Selected From Ancient Edifices; And Observations on the Furniture of the Tudor Period (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1830)

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scribes the doors of the upper story at Lord Bacon’s seat to have had
painted on the outsides of them, in dark umber, “ figures of the Gods of
the Gentiles.” Devices and sentences were also frequently painted in
panels on the walls and ceilings* of rooms. In Tusser’s “ Five Hundred
Pointes of Good Husbandrie,” there is a set of posies, or proverbial
rhymes, to be written in various rooms of the house; such as, “ Hus-
bandlie posies for the hall, posies for the parlour, posies for the ghests’-
chamber, and posies for thine own chamber.”
Leckinfield manor-house, Northumberland, a seat of the Percys, had
a profusion of these posies or proverbs. In one of the lodgings there
was a dialogue, of thirty-two stanzas, between “ the Parte Sensatyve”
and “ the Parte Intellectyveand in another a poem,, of thirty-two
stanzas, — a “ Descant on Harmony.” There were also, “ Proverbis in the
rooffe of the hyest chawmbre;” in the roof of Lord Percy’s closet; and
the roof of “ my lord’s library.” The latter had twenty-three stanzas, of
which the following is a specimen:
“ To every tale geve thou no credens.
Prove the cause, orf thou gyve sentens.
Agayn the right make no dyffens.
So hast thou a clene consciens.”
And “ in the syde of the garet of the gardynge” there were nine
stanzas, of eight lines each. Take the last stanza but one :
“ Punyshe moderately, and discreetly correct,
As well to mercy as to justice havynge a respect;
So shall ye have meryte for the punyshment,
And cause the offender to be sory and penitent.
* “ The roof o’ the chamber
With golden cherubims is fretted.”— Cymbeline.
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