is non inferior Patrio Sermone_ Viattus
_Eloquii secum qui decus omne tulit_.

Let _Florence_ fair her _Dantes_ justly boast,
And royal _Rome_ her _Petrarchs_ number'd feet,
In _English Wiat_ both of them doth coast:
In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet.

The renowned Earl of _Surrey_ in an _Encomium_ upon his Translation of
_David's_ Psalms, thus writes of him,

What holy Grave, what worthy Sepulcher,
To _Wiat's_ Psalms shall Christians purchase then?

And afterward, upon his death, the said Earl writeth thus:

What Vertues rare were temper'd in thy brest?
Honour that _England_ such a Jewel bred,
And kiss the ground whereas thy Corps did rest, _&c._

This worthy Knight being sent Ambassador by King _Henry_ the Eighth to
_Charles_ the Fifth Emperor, then residing in _Spain_, died of the
Pestilence in the West Country, before he could take Shipping, _Anno_
1541.

* * * * *

Dr. _CHRISTOPHER TYE_.

In the writing this Doctors Life, we shall principally make use for
Directions of Mr. _Fuller_, in his _England's Worthies_, fol. 244. He
flourished (saith he) in the Reign of King _Henry_ the Eighth, and King
_Edward_ the Sixth, to whom he was one of the Gentlemen of their
Chappel, and probably the Organist. Musick, which received a grievous
wound in _England_ at the dissolution of Abbeys, was much beholding to
him for her recovery; such was his excellent Skill and Piety, that he
kept it up in Credit at Court, and in all Cathedrals during his life:
He translated _the Acts of the Apostles_ into Verse, and let us take a
tast his Poetry.

In the former Treatise to thee,
dear friend _Theophilus_,
I have written the veritie
of the Lord Christ Jesus,

Which he to do and eke to teach,
began until the day;
In which the Spirit up did him fetch
to dwell above for aye.

After that he had power to do
even by the Holy Ghost:
Commandements then he gave unto
his chosen least and most.

To whom also himself did shew
from death thus to revive;
By tokens plain unto his few
even forty days alive.

Speaking of God's kingdom with heart
chusing together them,
Commanding them not to depart
from that _Jerusalem_.

But still to wait on the promise
of his Father the Lord,
Of which you have heard me e're this
unto you make record.

Pass we now (saith he) from his Poetry, (being