On King HRNRY V.*

Here lies HENRY, The Scourge of France, 1422.

Virtue furmounts all Oppofition !*

Here alfo,

With her Valiant Spoufe, lies.
The Beautiful CATHARINE.-
Keep from Sloth!
[Weftminster-Abbey.]

On HENRY, Duke of Brunswick, &c.

Here, great, and good, Duke HENRY buried lies;
O'er their dead Founder these proud Arches rife :
His pious Confort, too, (the Poor's fafe Guide)
Mix'd with his Duft, clings closer to his Side;
MATILDA, Daughter to great England's King!
Whofe Virtues, fpite of Death, ftill bloom in Spring.

King Oтно, too, their Son, here fhares their Reft ;-
By both fond Parents Arms, again poffefs'd.

And, here, O! Grief of Beauty! near him lies, -
The Charmer of his Heart, and all Mens Eyes!
That lovely Form, whofe Smiles inflam'd Defire,
Here, Food for Worms, can no foft Woes infpire. -

Thou, Paffenger! whofe Eyes this Marble view,Learn to be Wife; nor fleeting Hopes pursue: Life is an Evening Breeze; a murm'ring Breath`; That blows, 'till Sun-fet, then grows calm in Death. [Brunfwick Cathedral.]

On HUMPHREY BOUNCHIER.

Here lies a Combatant!

BARNET's Victor, whofe Delight was in War! And whilft fighting with the Impetuofity of ACHILLES He fell, cover'd with Wounds,

As his Armour was with Blood,
An Honourable Death!

Only to be lamented, that it was on the Day:
When Chrift rofe from the Dead.

HUMPHREY

BOURCHIER,

Defcended from EDWARD the III.

And was Son and Heir of the Lord BARNERS
If EDWARD the IV. gained the Victory,
This worthy Perfonage fell,.

As a faithful Servant of his King.
Among other Diftinctions of his Merit,.
He was Steward to ELIZABETH his Queen..
As he was here famous in War,
And the Darling of Englishmen,
Pray for his Happiness in Heaven.
[Westminster-Abbey.]

On

On RICHARD Earl of Warwick.

Pray devoutly for the Soul, whom God afsoile,
Of One of the moft Worfhipful Knights in his Daies,
Of Manhood and Cunning,

RICHARD BEAUCHAMPE, late Earl of Warwick,
Lord Difpenfer of 'Bergavenny,
And of many other great Lordships,
Whofe Body refteth here under this Tomb,,
In a full fair Vault of Stone
Set in the bare Rocke.

The which, vifited with long Sickness
In the Castle of Rohan,

Therein deceased full Christianly,
The last Day of April, in the Year
Of our Lord God. 1439,
Being, at that Time,
Lieutenant-General of France,

And of the Dutchy of Normandie,
By fufficient Authority of our Soveraign
Lord HENRY the Sixth.

The which Body, by great Deliberation,
And worshipful Conduct, by Sea and by Land,
Was brought to Warwick,

The fourth of October, the Year abovesaid,
And was laid with full folemne Exequies
In a fair Chest made of Stone,
Afore the Weft-Dore of this Chappell,
According to his last Will and Testament,.

Therein to rest 'till this Chappell,

By him devised in his Life-time, were made.

The

The which Chappell, founded on the Rocke,

And all the Members thereof,

His Executors did fully make and apparail, By the Authority of his faid last Will and Teftament. And thereafter, by the faid Authority, They did tranflate Worfhipfully The said Body into the Vault aforesaid. Honoured be GoD therefore. [St. Mary's, Warwick.]

On JOHN TALBOT, Earl of Shrewsbury.*

Pray for the Soul:

Of the Right Honourable Lord
JOHN TALBOT,
Sometime Earl of Shrewsbury.

Lord TALBOT, FURNIVALL, and VERDON,
Lord STRANGE of Blackmere,

And Marshal of France.
Who died in Battle, at Bourdeaux,
July 7th, 1453.

[Whitchurch, Shropshire. ]

On MARGARET, Countess of Shrewsbury,

Here, before the Image of JHESU,
Lyeth the worshipful and right noble Lady,
MARGARET, Countess of Shrewsbury.
Late Wife of the

True

True and victorious Knight and redoubted Warrior,

JOHN TALBOT,

Earl of Shrewsbury,

Which worshipfully died in Gien,
For the right of this Land.

The first Daughter, and one of the Heirs
Of the right famous and renowned Knight,,
RICHARD

BEAUCHAMPE,

Late Earl of Warwick,

Which died in Roane:

And of Dame ELIZABETH his Wife,
The which ELIZABETH was Daughter and Heir to
THOMAS, late Lord Berkely;

And on his Side, and of her Mother's Side,
Lady Lifle and Ties.

Which Countess passed from this World.
The 14th Day of June,

The Year of our Lord, 1468.

On whofe Soul the Lord have Mercy..
[St. Faith's, under St. Paul's.]

On Prince ARTHUR.

Here lyeth buried

Prince ARTHUR,

The firft begotten Sonne, of the Renowned
King HENRY the Seaventhe.

Which noble Prince

Departed out of this tranfitory Life, at the
Caftell of Ludlowe: