. Walks in London . even the name of the regicide Milton to appear within the Abbey—it was too detestable to be read on the wall of a building dedicatedto devotion. The line was restored under Dean Philips*spoem of Cyder is commemorated in the bower of apple entwinedwith laurel which encircles his bust, and the inscriptim, *• Honos erathuic quoque Pomo. • Johnsons Lives of the Po^ts.** t Ibid. 24Q WALKS IN LONDON. Geoffrey Chaucer^ 1400. A grey marble altar-tomb with a canopy,erected by Nicholas Bingham in the reign of Edward VI. Tins* Mai:^ter Chaucer, the Flour of Poetes, is chie
. Walks in London . even the name of the regicide Milton to appear within the Abbey—it was too detestable to be read on the wall of a building dedicatedto devotion. The line was restored under Dean Philips*spoem of Cyder is commemorated in the bower of apple entwinedwith laurel which encircles his bust, and the inscriptim, *• Honos erathuic quoque Pomo. • Johnsons Lives of the Po^ts.** t Ibid. 24Q WALKS IN LONDON. Geoffrey Chaucer^ 1400. A grey marble altar-tomb with a canopy,erected by Nicholas Bingham in the reign of Edward VI. Tins* Mai:^ter Chaucer, the Flour of Poetes, is chiefly known from liis* Canterbury Tales, by which a company of pilgrims, who meet atthe Tabard Inn in Southwark on their way to the shrine of St. Thomasa Becket, are supposed to beguile their journey. The fortunes ofChaucer followed those of John of Gaunt, who married the sister ofthe poets wife, Philippa de Rouet, and he was at one time imprisonedfor his championship of the followers of Wickliffe. He was buried. Chaucers Tomb. *in the Abbey of Westminster, before the chapel of St. Bennet.*The window above the tomb was erected .0 the poets memoryin 1868. * Chaucer lies buried in the south aisle of St. Peters, Westminster,and now hath got the company of Spenser and Drayton, a pair royalof poets, enough almost to make passengers feet to move metrically,who go over the place where so much poetical dust is interred.—Fuller. • Caxton in his ed. of Chaucers trans, of Roethius. TOMBS OF THE POETS, 241 Abraham Cowley^ 1667. The monument stands above the grave ofthe poet, and was erected by George Villiers, second Duke of Bucking-ham. Dean Swift wrote the inscription to ** the Pindar, Horace, andVirgil of England, and the delight, ornament, and admiration of hisage. Cowley was zealously devoted to the cause of Charles I., butwas cruelly neglected by Charles II., though, on hearing of his death,the king is reported to have said that he (Cowley) had not left a betterman behind him
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