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[St. Pauls.] Faringdon Ward within. [Monuments.]
Sixe Lines this Image
shall delineate, Hight Crost, high born,
in Spirit and Vertue high; Approv'd, belov'd, a Knight,
stout Mars his Mate, Loves Fire, Warres Flame,
in Heart, Head, Hand, and Eie: Which Flame, Warres Comet,
Grace now so resignes, That fixt in Heaven, in
Heaven and Earth it shines.
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A Table hanging on a Pillar, in the South Ile.
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The Wombe and Tombe
in Name be not so neere, As Life to Death
and Birth is to the Beere. Oh! then how soone to Beere
are Captaines brought, That now doe live, and dye
now with a thought: Then, Captaines, stay and
reade, still think on me, For, with a thought,
what I am, you may be. As Mars neere Mors doth sound, So Mors neere Mars is found. J. Da. of H.
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Hoc Saxo tegitur corpus Thomæ Creke, L. Doctoris, & Almæ Curiæ Cantuar. de Arcubus Londini Advocatorum unius, viri utriusque Juris tam Canonici quàm Civilis scientia non modo peritissimi, sed & eorundem usu & praxi longo tempore exercitatissimi. Cujus in Clientum causas defendendo, industria quanta fuit, quanta integritas, quanta fides, quanta denique si quid contra votum, & (ut sibi videbatur) æquitatem accidebat solicitudo, & ii qui ejus usi sunt patrocinio optimè prædicare possunt, & celebris illius famæ memoria nunquam moritura verissimè prædicavit.
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Somewhat near to the Convocation Stairs, a fair plated Stone upon the Ground.
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Honestè vixit, Neminem lasit, Suum cuique tribuit.
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Hic requiescit in Domino Gulielmus Dethick, Eques Auratus, filius & hæres Gilberti Dethick, Equitis Aurati. Qui ambo fuerunt Garterii Principales Reges Armorum Angliæ. Quorum hic An. 1584. Ætatis suæ 48. Ille Anno 1612. Ætatis suæ 70. in Domino obdormierunt, expectantes resurrectionem per Jesum Christum Salvatorem nostrum. Domina Thomasina super 40. Annos uxor prædicti Williel, & filii Georgius, Gilbertus & Henricus pietatis ergo posuerunt.
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In the Body of the Church, on the South side, a fair Stone, thus inscribed.
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Hic jacet Robertus Hare, quondam Clericus Thesauri & Scriptor Rotulorum de Receptione & exitu Thesauri Scaccarii. Qui obiit senex die 2. Novemb. An. 1611.
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A fair plated Stone in the West end of the middle Ile.
A. M.
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John King, Bishop of London, descended from the antient Kings of Devonshire, by his Father; and from the Conquests of Haughton Conquest, in Bedforshire, by his Mother, lies buried in the South Ile of St. Pauls, behind the Bishop's Seat; having only a plain Marble over him, and Resurgam written on it for his Epitaph; as himself directed in his Will.
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R.
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These Verses hanging by in a Table.
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Joannis King Episcopi Londinensis, quicquid mortale est in hoc pulvere componitur.
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Hic jacet (nisi quis Calumnietur Mendax Transtiberinus Ambulator, Tranferri Cineres, Fidemque Romam, Et migrâsse semel simulque utramque) Præsul Catholicus, sed Orthodoxus. Non partis studiosus, evagari Per divortia multa opinionum, Aut Sectas didicit novas creare: Quod si qui fuerint notæ prioris, Quos vulgus facit & colit Magistros, His tantâ levitate non adhæsit, Ut persona fide magis placeret: Magna nomina, sed minora semper Isthæc omnia Veritate, duxit. Tantum non fuit Ille de Locustis, Aut rasis Monachis, piisque nequam, Urbem qui gravidâre Septicollem: Qui circum Capitolium strepentes Romanum, velut Anseres sonori, Cygnæas temerare cantilenas Audent, per modulamen inficetum: Et pro vocibus ultimis Oloris, Commendare suas, & Anscrinas. Sed, quod nec Calami, nec ora centum: Nec Perjuria mille de Duaco; Nec Satan Decumanus ille mendax; Nec tandem Legio Diabolorum, Extorquere suis strophis valebunt: Unus si Deus est, Fides & una, Huic uni immoriens, & Anglicanæ. Quod si quis Logodædalus profanus, Aut Famæ Plagiarius Scelestus, Quicquam Sacrilego reponat ore: Si Vafer Fidei M........ Qui vult de similâ Deum creare, Et Christum jubet innatare vino: Et sic Hereticos & Orthodoxos Confundit, facit utque symbolizent Plus quam Pythagoræ M.........., Seductum crepat hunc Apostatâsse: Tam ventosa fides videtur illis; Tam ventosus & Ille Christianus; Ut, post tot, docilis Senex, aristas, Accessisse putetur imparatus, Infansque, ad Documenta Lessiana. Non plures libet, Arbitros citare, Quam conscire suum: quod apprecarer Testem, Carnificemque, Judicemque, Illi, quisquis erat Sacer Poeta; An plus crediderit suæ Legendæ, Quid si jurat idem sat impudenter, Lingua perierat; at quid inde; Mentem Injuratus habet; Scioque habebit. Tu si credideris secus Viator, Nugis, Impliciti necessitate Assensus, bibulam fidem recludens, Si quis Seraphicus propinet Autor; Veternum excutias: & absque tandem Susceptore, tuum pares Adultus Examen, tibi teque cognitorem Ponas, & sapias monente Amico. Sin sis Credulitatis obstinatæ, Conclamatus es: Ilicet, Deinceps Te Stultum jubeo libenter esse. In Diem Obitus.
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Quem Pas.. Domini fecerat Sacrum Diem, Et Mors coronis integri Certaminis: Hunc æque Amicum Numen indulsit diem. Desiderando, quod prope hic, capiti, jacet, Quo solveretur Vita vitalis parum. Dolorum utrumque dixeris recte Virum;
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