Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 119
yce, and singeth most swetely towardesye time of hys death, as it were to bewaile hysdeparture and buriall. Ouid. Dulcia defleta modulatur carmina linguaCantator Cygnus funeris ipse sui. The Swanne doth tune, with mourning breath, Most pleasaunt metres, before hys death. He is a gentle and quyet… … 112 BOSSEWELLS WORRES OF ARMOR1E. Apollo, oh prcesagium finis, because he devineth, or conjectureth, whan hee shalldye. We are reminded of the introduction of this legend on thesepulchral tablet1 of the statesman Sir Kobert Kaunton, more har-moniously, and not ungracefully combined with the Hart…
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