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The Church of St. MARGARET.43

The Church of St. MARGARET.

A fair Monument at the lower End of the North Ile in the Wall, thus written on.

Here lyeth interred the Body of Edward Reynolds, Esquire, late Clearke of his Majesties Privy Seale, and Register of the Court of Requests; who departed this Life the 18. Day of December, Anno Dom. 1623. By him also lyeth the Body of his Brother, Master Owen Reynolds, who deceased the 16. of April 1610. To whose Memories, Edward and Launcelet Reynolds, Gentlemen, have here placed these ensuing Verses, made by the said Edward Reynolds in his Life Time.

Gloria, Vita, Decor, Thesaurus, Fama, Voluptas,
Vana, brevis, fragilis, fluxus, temeraria, mollis,
Fumus, Bulla, Iris, Fax, Ventus, Dulce venenum,
Vanescit, perit, arescit, liquesit, fugit, angit.

Orbe nihil toto stabile est, citò corruet orbis,
Et vasti in nihilum vanescet fabrica Mundi.
Sola fides firmam parit, æternamque Coronam,
Sola fides Christi meritis, sunt cætera Nugæ.
    
Hac vixi, hac morior fide, mihi Christus in vita, & morte lucrum.

In the Middle of the same Ile, in the Wall, is a fair Monument, thus written on.

M. S.
Hic sepultus jacet Johannes Corbettus de Sprowston, in Com. Norf. Baronettus. Qui uxorem duxit piissimam Annam, filiam Arthuri Capel de Hadham, in Com. Hartford, Militis. Ex qua suscepit Filios tres, totidem Filias, Vitam vixit integerrimam, Rei assertor publicæ, Christianæ columen, Mecænas literariæ, hinc migrans, Anno Dom. Millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo septimo (Ætatis trigesimo septimo) die decimo nono Januarii. Abunde illud supplevit, in quo Marmor deficit, famam & memoriam indeptus terris diutius, at Cœlo in æternum victuram.

{ Johannes Corbettus, miles
{ Sanctusne in homo & liber?
{ Et sanctus iste homo liber.
Sir John Corbett, Baronet.

Another in the same Wall, thus inscribed.

D. M. S. S.
Joannes Mackulio
de Merton, D. N.
Scoto-Britannus
Magni Hetruriæ ducis
Archiater quondam,
Nec non
In sapientia illustris, Pisis
Cathedræ Doctor,
Dein
Magnæ Britanniæ Regis
Medicus, Medicorum sui seculi
Æsculapius, Therapeutices,
promus-condus, conditumque prodigium,
Mortales, huic Cippo, in spem
Resurrectionis, vitæque melioris
Reliquit exuvias
Reparatæ salutis 1622.
Ætatis suæ 46, Mense.

Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

On the same Wall, in a Table, is this Epitaph.

In Memory of the late deceased Virgin, Mistriss Elizabeth Hereicke.
    
Sweet Virgin, that I do not set
Thy Grave-verse up in mournful Jet,
Or dappled Marble, let thy Shade
Not wrathful seeme, or fright the Maid,
Who hither at her weeping Howres,
Shall come to strew thy Earth with Flowres:
No, know, blest Soule, when there's not one
Remainder left of Brasse or Stone;
Thy living Epitaph shall be
Though lost in them, yet found in me:
Deare, in thy Bed of Roses then,
Till this World shall dissolve (as Men)
Sleepe, while we hide thee from the Light,
Drawing thy Curtains round - Good Night.

On a Table hanging at the upper End of the South Ile, is this written.

In Memory of the right vertuous and beautiful Gentlewoman, Mistress Margaret Radcliffe, Daughter to Sir John Radcliffe, Knight, one of the Maids of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, who deceased at Richmond the 10. of November, and was here buried with Solemnity the 22. of the same, Anno Dom. 1599. An. Reg. Eliz. 41.
Tell thou my wailing Verse, and mourning show
What beauteous frame lies here interr'd below.

Here underenath entomb'd a Dazie lies,
The Pride of Nature, with Perfection fill'd;     
O woe, whom Zephyres blasts can ne'er make rise,
Being by Death's black Storms untimely kill'd.     
Ratcliffe's thy Name, thy Glory of the Court,
Vertue and Beauty strove t'adorn thee most;     
Though here inclos'd, yet Fame shall still report
Thy Vertue's Praise, thy Graces Time shall boast:

Thou dy'dst a Virgin pure, and spotlesse Liver;
Grief caus'd thy Death, Death makes thee live for ever.
If any ask, Who sigh'd this sad Complaint?
Say, One that liv'd, that lov'd, that joy'd, now faint.

Another fair Monument at the upper End of the Chancel, thus inscribed.

Epitaphium Religiosissimi, spectatissimique viri, Francisci Egioke, de Egioke in Comitatu Vigorniæ Equitis Aurati, vitæ Famæque integerrimæ, Musarum, Militum, Pauperumque Fautoris Meritissimi. Qui à Londino, Vigorniam versus proficiscens, in Uxbrigia vita defunctus est 21. die Novemb. 1622. Hic vero repositus habet Cineres.

Dilectissima, Mœstissimaque Uxor ejus Elinor, Filia Fra. Dingley, Armigeri, in eodem Vigorniæ Comitatu, Lugubre Hoc, pii Amoris & obsequii, Monumentum posuit.

Ad Tumulum ni flere libet, discedito Lector,
Qui legis hæc, Fletu prodigus esto pio.
Cum Musis omnes flerent, inopumque Catervis,
Illis Patronus, his Benefactor erat.
Arma virumque canit, Mors imperiosa, triumphans,
Quod Miles strennus sic spoliatus obit.
Vana, quid insultas? te jam tua præda fefellit;
Artes, arma, preces, hunc periisse vetant.
Hunc (Mors) insequeris frustra, cui militat æther,
Nec tibi, sed superis, præda beata jacet.
Quid quod iter carpens Cecidit? Moriturque viator?
Quæ supra terram est noverat; hîc Patriam.
Quo tendens, proprios Lares, Terrasque relinquit,
Et Cœlum media possidet ille via.

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