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Argent bezanty, horned, hoofed, gorged with a ducal coronet, and
chained, Or. The fame arms are alfo upon his frail in St. George’s chapel
in Windfor cattle.— See Sandford’s Genealogical Hi/lory, 1677, p. 466,
The King, his wife, and friend, mourned exceedingly for the prema-
ture death of this amiable youth; it was long before the latter forgot the
lofsof this beloved affociate of his early years, who fo nearly refembled himfelf
in genius, manners, and acquifitions: and who, had he lived, would pro-
bably have prevented the Earl from failing a facnfice to the fury of the
King his father.
Among the works of the Earl of Surrey is mentioned a Poem on the
death of the Duke of Richmond, which we may conceive to have been
tender in the extreme; but which, with fome other pieces of the fame
elegant author, is unhappily loft.
In 1543 Surrey was confined to Windfor Cattle, for eating flefh in
Lent; contrary to the King’s Proclamation, Feb. 9, 1542: during which
reftraint he wrote the following pathetic elegy, lamenting the happier days
patted there with young Fitzroy.
Sf Prifoner in Windfor, be r ecount eth his plea fare there faffed.
tc So cruell prifon howe could betyde, alas 1
As provide Windfor; Where I in Luft and Joy,
Wythe a Kynges Sonne, my chyldyfh yeres dyd pafle,
In greater feaft, than Priams Sonnes of Troye :
Where eche fwete place retuines a taftfull fower :
The large grene Courtes where we were wont to rove,
Wyth Eyes caft up into the Maydens tower,
And eafy fighes, fuch as folke draw in Love :
The ftately feaies, the Ladies brighte of hewe ;
The Daunces fhort, long tales of greate delight,
Wyth woordes and lookes, that Fygers could but rewe,
Where eche of us dyd pleade the others ryghte.
The palme play, where defpoyled for the game,
With dazed Eyes oft we by gleames of Love
Have myft the Ball, and gote fighte of our Dame
To bayte her Eyes, whyche kept the leads above
Argent bezanty, horned, hoofed, gorged with a ducal coronet, and
chained, Or. The fame arms are alfo upon his frail in St. George’s chapel
in Windfor cattle.— See Sandford’s Genealogical Hi/lory, 1677, p. 466,
The King, his wife, and friend, mourned exceedingly for the prema-
ture death of this amiable youth; it was long before the latter forgot the
lofsof this beloved affociate of his early years, who fo nearly refembled himfelf
in genius, manners, and acquifitions: and who, had he lived, would pro-
bably have prevented the Earl from failing a facnfice to the fury of the
King his father.
Among the works of the Earl of Surrey is mentioned a Poem on the
death of the Duke of Richmond, which we may conceive to have been
tender in the extreme; but which, with fome other pieces of the fame
elegant author, is unhappily loft.
In 1543 Surrey was confined to Windfor Cattle, for eating flefh in
Lent; contrary to the King’s Proclamation, Feb. 9, 1542: during which
reftraint he wrote the following pathetic elegy, lamenting the happier days
patted there with young Fitzroy.
Sf Prifoner in Windfor, be r ecount eth his plea fare there faffed.
tc So cruell prifon howe could betyde, alas 1
As provide Windfor; Where I in Luft and Joy,
Wythe a Kynges Sonne, my chyldyfh yeres dyd pafle,
In greater feaft, than Priams Sonnes of Troye :
Where eche fwete place retuines a taftfull fower :
The large grene Courtes where we were wont to rove,
Wyth Eyes caft up into the Maydens tower,
And eafy fighes, fuch as folke draw in Love :
The ftately feaies, the Ladies brighte of hewe ;
The Daunces fhort, long tales of greate delight,
Wyth woordes and lookes, that Fygers could but rewe,
Where eche of us dyd pleade the others ryghte.
The palme play, where defpoyled for the game,
With dazed Eyes oft we by gleames of Love
Have myft the Ball, and gote fighte of our Dame
To bayte her Eyes, whyche kept the leads above