On Sir THOMAS BODLEY,

THOMAS SACKVIL, Earl of Dorset,
Lord High Treasurer of England,
And Chancellor of this
Univerfity,

Piously erected this Monument,
To the Honour of

Sir THOMAS BODLEY, Knight,.
Who inftituted this Library.

1613

[In the Library, Oxford.].

On ISAAC CASAUBON.*

Here lies,

Now out of the Reach of the impotent Rancour of Envy,
ISAAC CASAUBON,

(Ye Learned reverence fo refpectable a Name)
A Native of France;

Born

For the Advancement of Literature.
The Heroic King of France, HENRY the 4th,
Selected him

For Keeper of the Royal Library at Paris ;
And fhewed him a particular Efteem
"Till his attrocious Death.

After which,

JAMES the 1ft, King of Great-Britain,

The

The moft learned of Princes,
And Patron of the Learned,
Invited him into England:
And liberally provided for him.
His Works will be

The perpetual Admiration of Posterity.
He dyed,

In a lively Confidence of Life in CHRIST,
On the 1st of July, 1614,
Aged 50 Years.

To this excellent Perfon,
THOMAS MORTON, Bishop of Durham,
Who plac'd a great

(And no more than a proper) Value on
His Acquaintance,

Has fet up this Stone, 1634.

It is not the monumental Infcription
Which can fully fhew CASAUBON;
His Works only can do that.

The former Time will efface,

These are Perenial, and will convey Inftruction To the latest Posterity.

[Weftminster-Abbey.]

On WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR.

Good Friend, for Jefu's Sake, forbear
To dig the Duft enclosed here,

Bleft be the Man who spares these Stones,
And curs'd be he that moves my Bones,

Obiit An. Dom. 1616. Et 53. die 23 Apri..

[Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.]

On the fame..

By John Milton.

What needs my SHAKESPEAR for his honour'd Bones,
The Labour of an Age in piled Stones ?
Or that his hallow'd Reliques fhould be hid,
Under a Starry-pointing Pyramid ?'

Dear Son of Memory! great Heir of Fame !

What needs thou fuch weak Witness of thy Name?
Thou, in our Wonder and Aftonishment,

Haft built thyself a live-long Monument:
For whilft to th' fhame of flow endeavouring Art,
Thy eafy Numbers flow, and that each Heart
Hath from the Leaves of thy unrival'd Book,
Thofe Delphic Lines, with deep Impreffion took..
Then thou, our Fancy of itself bereaving,

Doft make us Marble, with too much conceiving:
And fo Sepulch'red in fuch Pomp dost lie,
That Kings for fuch a Tomb wou'd wish to die.

On the fame.

To WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR,

This Monument was erected by the public Esteem One Hundred and Twenty-four Years after his Death.

The

And

And like the baseless fabric of a Vifion
Leave not a Wreck behind!

[Weftminster-Abbey.]:

On the fame.

Whofe excellent Genius

Open'd to him the whole Art of Man :
All the Mines of Fancy;

All the Stores of Nature;

gave him Power beyond all other Writers, To move! aftonish! and delight Mankind.

[Stow, Buckinghamshire.1

On the fame.

Great HOMER's Birth feven rival Cities claim,
Too mighty fuch Monopoly of Fame!

Yet not to Birth alone did HOMER Owe

His wond'rous Worth, what Egypt could beftow,
With all the Schools of Greece and Afia join'd,
Enlarg'd the immenfe Expanfion of his Mind:
Nor yet unrival'd, the Mæonian Strain,
The British Eagle, and the Mantuan Swan

Tow'er equal Heights, but happier Stratford, thou
With uncontested Laurels deck thy Brow;

Thy Bard was thine unfchool'd, and from thee brought
More than all Egypt, Greece, or Afia taught!
Not HOMER's felf fuch matchlefs Honours won,
The Greek has Rivals, but thy SHAKESPEAR none.

Sir WALTER RALEIGH,

A valiant Soldier, and an able Statesman,
Who, endeavouring to roufe the Spirit of his Mafter,
For the Honour of his Country,
Against the Ambition of Spain:

Fell a Sacrifice to the Influence of that Court,
Whose Arms he had vanquish'd,
And whose Designs he oppos’d.

[Stow, Buckinghamshire.]

On ELIZABETH, Lady RUSSELL.

To the Virtue, Honour, and Memory
Of the Right Honourable Lady,

Dame ELIZABETH RUSSELL;
Daughter, and fole Heir of HENRY LONG, of
Skingay, in the County of Cambridge, Efq;
Wife of the Right Honourable
Sir WILLIAM RUSSELL, Knt.
Lord RUSSELL, of Thornhaugh;

Late,