Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 120
oyce, and singeth most swetely towardesye time of hys death, as it were to bewaile hysdeparture and buriall. Ouid. Dulcia defieta 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 WOltKES OF ARMOR1E. Apollo, ob i)ra>$a<jium finis, because he devineth, or conjectureth, whan hoc shalldye. We are reminded of the introduction of this legend on thesepulchral tablet1 of the statesman Sir Robert Naunton, more har-moniously, and not ungracefully combined with…
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