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, A _Dutch_ Woman by Record, But that's all one, for now alass! His Blade's not so long as his Sword. King _Edward_ the Confessor lies Within this Monument fine; I'm sure, quoth one, a worser Tomb Must serve both me and mine. _Harry_ the Fifth lies there, and there Doth lie Queen _Eleanor_; To our first _Edward_ she was Wife, Which was more than ye knew before. _Henry_ the Third lies there Entomb'd, He was Herb _John_ in Pottage; Little he did, but still Reign'd on, Although his Sons were at Age. Fifty six Years he Reigned King, E'er he the Crown would lay by; Only we praise him, 'cause he was Last Builder of the _Abby_. Here _Thomas Cecil_ lies, who's that? Why 'tis the Earl of _Exeter_; And this his Countess is, to Die How it perplexed her. [Sidenote: Dol. _Ay, ay, I warrant her, rich Folks are as unwilling to die as poor Folks._] Here _Henry Cary_, Lord _Hunsdon_ rests, What a noise he makes with his Name? Lord Chamberlain was he unto Queen _Elizabeth_ of great Fame. [Sidenote: Sisly. _That's he for whom our Bells ring so often, is it not_ Mary? Mol. _Ay, ay, the very same._] And here's one _William Colchester_ Lies of a Certainty; An Abbot was he of _Westminster_, And he that saith no, doth lie. This is the Bishop of _Durham_, By Death here lay'd in Fetters; _Henry_ the Seventh lov'd him well, And so he wrote his Letters. Sir _Thomas Bacchus_, what of him? Poor Gentleman not a Word; Only they Buried him here; but now Behold that Man with a Sword. _Humphry de Bohun_, who though he were Not born with me i'the same Town; Yet I can tell he was Earl of _Essex_, Of _Hertford_, and _Northampton_. He was High Constable of _England_, As History well expresses; But now pretty Maids be of good Chear, We're going up to the Presses. And now the Presses open stand, And ye see them all arow; But never no more are said of these Then what is said below. Now down the Stairs come we again, The Man goes first with a Staff; Some two or three tumble down the Stairs, And then the People laugh. This is the great Sir _Francis Vere_, That so the _Spaniards_ curry'd; Four Colonels support his Tomb, And here his Body's Buried. That _Statue_ against the _Wall_ with one Eye, Is Major General _Norris_; He beat the _Spaniards_ cruelly, As is affirm'd in Stories. [Sidenote: Dick. _I warrant ye he had two, if he could have
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