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Gower being very gracious with King Henry the Gower.
sourth, in his time carried the name of the only Poet,
but his verses, to say truth, were poor and plain, yet
full os good and grave Morality : but while he affe&ed
altogether the French phrase and words, made him-
seIf too obscure to his Reader. jBeside, his invention
eometh far short os the promise of his Titles. Hepub-
lished only (that I know of) three Books, which at
S. Mary Overies in Southwark^ upon his monument
lately repaired by seme good Benefaftor, lye under
his head * which are. Vox clamantisy Speculum Medi-
t antis, and Consessio Am antis. He was a Knight, as al-
so was Chaucer,
Aster him succeeded Lydgate, a Monk of Bury, who Lydgate,
Wrote that bitter Satyre of Peirs Blow-men. He spent
most part of his time in transiating the works ofothers,
having no great invention of his own. He wrote for
those times a tolerable and srnooth verse.
Then followed Harding, and after him Skylton, a Harding1,
Poet Laureate, tor what desert I could never hear. Is sk?lton»
you desire to see his vein and learning, an Epitaph
upon King Henry the Ceaventh, at JFesi-minJler will.dis-
cover it.
In the latter end of King Henry the eighth, for their Henry Earle os
excellent faculty in Poesy were famous, the right no- Surrey.
ble Henry Earle of Surrey ( whose Songs and Sonnets
yet extant, areossweetconceipt:) and the learned, . ,
but unfortunate. Sir Thomas Wyax, J
In the time of Edward the sixth lived Sternhold, *
whom King Henry his father, a little before had made
groom of his Chamber, for turning of certain of Da- Northmimmes
vids Psalms into verse; and merry John Htywood, in Her tfordffire
who wrote his Epigrams; as also Sir 'Thomas More, his near t0 dl-
Utopia, in the parifh wherein I was born; where either
of them dwelt, and had sair posselsions.
About Queen Maries time, ssourished Doftor Pbaer?
who in part transsated Virgils JEneids,after finifliedby
Arthur Golding,
I&
Gower being very gracious with King Henry the Gower.
sourth, in his time carried the name of the only Poet,
but his verses, to say truth, were poor and plain, yet
full os good and grave Morality : but while he affe&ed
altogether the French phrase and words, made him-
seIf too obscure to his Reader. jBeside, his invention
eometh far short os the promise of his Titles. Hepub-
lished only (that I know of) three Books, which at
S. Mary Overies in Southwark^ upon his monument
lately repaired by seme good Benefaftor, lye under
his head * which are. Vox clamantisy Speculum Medi-
t antis, and Consessio Am antis. He was a Knight, as al-
so was Chaucer,
Aster him succeeded Lydgate, a Monk of Bury, who Lydgate,
Wrote that bitter Satyre of Peirs Blow-men. He spent
most part of his time in transiating the works ofothers,
having no great invention of his own. He wrote for
those times a tolerable and srnooth verse.
Then followed Harding, and after him Skylton, a Harding1,
Poet Laureate, tor what desert I could never hear. Is sk?lton»
you desire to see his vein and learning, an Epitaph
upon King Henry the Ceaventh, at JFesi-minJler will.dis-
cover it.
In the latter end of King Henry the eighth, for their Henry Earle os
excellent faculty in Poesy were famous, the right no- Surrey.
ble Henry Earle of Surrey ( whose Songs and Sonnets
yet extant, areossweetconceipt:) and the learned, . ,
but unfortunate. Sir Thomas Wyax, J
In the time of Edward the sixth lived Sternhold, *
whom King Henry his father, a little before had made
groom of his Chamber, for turning of certain of Da- Northmimmes
vids Psalms into verse; and merry John Htywood, in Her tfordffire
who wrote his Epigrams; as also Sir 'Thomas More, his near t0 dl-
Utopia, in the parifh wherein I was born; where either
of them dwelt, and had sair posselsions.
About Queen Maries time, ssourished Doftor Pbaer?
who in part transsated Virgils JEneids,after finifliedby
Arthur Golding,
I&