. Walks in London . e morning hasteth;The sun sets, the shadow flies,The gourd consumes, and Man he dies. • There is a curious tract called The true H istory of the Life and suddenDeath of old John Overs, the rich ierryman of London, showing how he lost hislife by his own covetousness; and of his daughter Mary, who caused the churchof S. Mary Overs in Southwark to be built, and of the building of London narrates how John Overs counterfeited death, thinking to economise bjmaking his household fast for a day, but they feasted instead, whereat Lc aroM illa fury and killed an apprentice,
. Walks in London . e morning hasteth;The sun sets, the shadow flies,The gourd consumes, and Man he dies. • There is a curious tract called The true H istory of the Life and suddenDeath of old John Overs, the rich ierryman of London, showing how he lost hislife by his own covetousness; and of his daughter Mary, who caused the churchof S. Mary Overs in Southwark to be built, and of the building of London narrates how John Overs counterfeited death, thinking to economise bjmaking his household fast for a day, but they feasted instead, whereat Lc aroM illa fury and killed an apprentice, for which he was executed* 456 WALKS IN LONDON. Other persons buried here without a monument are SirEdward Dyer, the E^lizabethan pastoral poet, 1607, wholived and died in Winchester House ; and Edmond Shak-speaie, the poets younger brother; the register merelysays, Edmond Shakspeare, a player, in the church. The beautiful Lady Chapel was used in the time ofMary I. as the consistorial court of Gardiner, Bishop of. Lady Chape), S . ALiiy Ovcry. Winchester, and here Bishop Hooper and John Rogers,Vicar of St. Sepulchres, were condemned to be burnt—thepopular feeling in favour of the latter being so strong at thetime that he had to be conveyed from hence by night insecrecy to Newgate. Here is the black and white marble tomb of Bishop • Miluians Annnls o. t. Pauls. ^T. SAVIOURS, SOUTHVVARK, 45; Lancelot Andrews, 1628, with the inscription September21. Die lunae bora matutina fere quarta LancelotusAndrewes, episcopus Wintonensis, nieritissimum Kimen orbisChristiani mortuus est (ephemeris laudiana) anno Domini,1626, astatis suae 71. The tomb was brought hither from achapel called the Bishops Chapel, which formerly existedto the east of the Lady Chapel, where it had a canopyinscribed, Reader, if thou art a Christian, stay; it will beworth thy tarrying to know how great a man lies Elizabeth, who delighted in the preaching ofAndrews, raised him from the Mastership of Pe
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