. Shakespeare's England . Gothiccolumns and the commemorative sculpture remain un-changed. Here are the tombs of Sir John Crosby, whobuilt Crosby Place (1466), Sir Thomas Gresham, whofounded both Gresham College and the Royal Exchangein London, and Sir William Pickering, once Queen Eliz-abeths Minister to Spain and one of the amorous aspir-ants for her royal hand; and here, in a gloomy chapel, 1 This memorial bears the following inscription: John Milton. Authorof Paradise Lost. Born, December 1608. Died, November 1674. Hisfather, John Milton, died, March 1646. They were both interred in thisch
. Shakespeare's England . Gothiccolumns and the commemorative sculpture remain un-changed. Here are the tombs of Sir John Crosby, whobuilt Crosby Place (1466), Sir Thomas Gresham, whofounded both Gresham College and the Royal Exchangein London, and Sir William Pickering, once Queen Eliz-abeths Minister to Spain and one of the amorous aspir-ants for her royal hand; and here, in a gloomy chapel, 1 This memorial bears the following inscription: John Milton. Authorof Paradise Lost. Born, December 1608. Died, November 1674. Hisfather, John Milton, died, March 1646. They were both interred in thischurch. 182 SHAKESPEARES ENGLAND CHAP. stands the veritable altar at which, it is said, the Dukeof Gloster received absolution, after the disappearanceof the princes in the Tower. Standing at that altar, inthe cool silence of the lonely church and the waninglight of afternoon, it was easy to conjure up his slender,slightly misshapen form, decked in the rich apparel thathe loved, his handsome, aquiline, thoughtful face, the. Sir John Crosbys Momiment. drooping head, the glittering eyes, the nervous handthat toyed with the dagger, and the stealthy stillness ofhis person, from head to foot, as he knelt there beforethe priest and perhaps mocked both himself and heavenwith the form of prayer. Every place that Richardtouched is haunted by his magnetic presence. In an-other part of the church you are shown the tomb of aperson whose will provided that the key of his sepulchre XIV OLD CHURCHES OF LONDON 183 should be placed beside his body, and that the doorshould be opened once a year, for a hundred years. Itseems to have been his expectation to awake and arise ;but the allotted century has passed and his bones arestill quiescent. How calmly they sleep — those warriors who oncefilled the world with the tumult of their deeds ! If yougo into St. Marys, in the Temple, you will stand abovethe dust of the Crusaders and see the beautiful copper
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