. A Historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities. u-ment was restored as nearly as possible to the old form, but instatuary marble. His works abound with innumerable beautiesand such a variety of imagery, as is scarce to be found in anyother writer, ancient or modern. On this monument is this in-scription:—Here lies (expecting the second coming of our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of Edmund Spencer, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine spirit needs no other witness than the works which he left behind him. He was born in London in 1553, and died in 1598.
. A Historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities. u-ment was restored as nearly as possible to the old form, but instatuary marble. His works abound with innumerable beautiesand such a variety of imagery, as is scarce to be found in anyother writer, ancient or modern. On this monument is this in-scription:—Here lies (expecting the second coming of our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of Edmund Spencer, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine spirit needs no other witness than the works which he left behind him. He was born in London in 1553, and died in 1598. Ben Jonson.— This monument is of fine marble, and is veryneatly ornamented with emblematical figures, alluding, perhaps,to the malice and envy of his contemporaries. His epitaph— O Rare Ben Jonson!—is cut in the pavement where he isburied in the North Aisle. He was Poet Laureate to James I.,and contemporary with Shakspeare, to whose writings, whenliving, he was no friend, though, when dead, he wrote a Poemprefixed to his Plays, which does him the amplest justice. His. *«* •. I »L«»l \ /■»» STA I N E I > -• CLAM* WINDOW iVgiPO ETSs* CORNERS WESTM! NSTER»ABBE1Y.*?J 8YTHKMAS fUlLUE. A. GEOROE MAYEB . CI \S^ * i:S V/.M>|V>!IR Sr M\S Ihoto-Lithc Whiteinan kBass, OR, POETS CORNER. 115 father was a clergyman, and he was educated at WestminsterSchool while Mr. Garden was Master; but after his fathers death,his mother marrying a bricklayer, he was forced from school, andmade to lay bricks. There is a story to] d of him, that at the build-ing of Lincolns Inn, he worked with his trowel in one hand, andHorace in the other; but Mr. Carden, regarding his parts, re-commended him to Sir Walter Raleigh, whose son he attended inhis travels, and upon his return entered himself at died the 16th of August, 1637, aged sixty-three.—Rysbrack,sculptor. On the left is a monument to Michael Draiton. Theinscription and epitaph were for
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