Shakespeare's England . King Edward the Third, five hundredyears ago. The princes who are said to havebeen murdered in the Tower are commemo-rated there by an altar, set up by King Charlesthe Second, whereon the inscription,—blandlyoblivions of the incident of Cromwell,—statesthat it was erected in the thirtieth year ofKing Charless reign. King Richard theSecond, deposed and assassinated, is thereentombed, and within a few feet oi him arethe relies of his uncle, the able and powerfulDuke oi Gloucester, treacherously ensnared andbetrayed to death. There also, huge, rough,and gray, is the stone
Shakespeare's England . King Edward the Third, five hundredyears ago. The princes who are said to havebeen murdered in the Tower are commemo-rated there by an altar, set up by King Charlesthe Second, whereon the inscription,—blandlyoblivions of the incident of Cromwell,—statesthat it was erected in the thirtieth year ofKing Charless reign. King Richard theSecond, deposed and assassinated, is thereentombed, and within a few feet oi him arethe relies of his uncle, the able and powerfulDuke oi Gloucester, treacherously ensnared andbetrayed to death. There also, huge, rough,and gray, is the stone sarcophagus of KingEdward the First, which, when opened, in 1771,diselosed the skeleton of departed majesty, stillperfect, wearing robes of gold tissue and crim-son velvet, and having a crown on the headand a sceptre in the hand. So sleep, in jewelleddarkness and gaudy decay, what once weremonarehs! And around are great lords,sainted prelates, famous statesmen, renownedsoldiers, and illustrious poets—all enshrined. WESTMINSTER ABBEY 107 in one of the grandest sepulchres in theworld. The interments that have been effected inand around the Abbey since the remote ageof Edward the Confessor number thousands,but only about six hundred are named inthe chronicles. In the South Transept, whichis Poets Corner, rest Chaucer, Spenser, Dray-ton, Cowley, Dryden, Beaumont, Davenant,Prior, Gay, Congreve, and Ilowe. Memorialsto many other poets and writers have beenranged on the adjacent walls and pillars, butthese are among the authors that wereburied in this place. Ben Jonson is not inPoets Corner, but,—in an upright posture, itis said,—under the North Aisle of the was laid in the chapel of King Henrythe Seventh, at the foot of the monument ofCharles Montague, the great Earl of Halifax,and Bulwer in the chapel of Saint Edmund,while in St. Edwards chapel sleep Anne ofCleves, the divorced wife of King Henry theEighth, and Anne Neville, Queen of KingRichard the Third. Be
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