The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
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En toy quies fitz de Dieu le pere, Sauve soit, qui gist fours cest pierre. The second writing MERCY, with this device; O bene Jesu fait ta mercy, A'lame, dont la corps gisticy. The third writing PITY, with this decree; Pour ta pitie Jesu regarde, Et met cest a me, en sauve garde. His arms were in a Field Argent, on a Chevron Azure, three Leopards heads or, their tongues Gules, two Angels supporters, and the crest a Talbot. His EPITAPH. Armigeri soltum nihil a modo fert sibi tutum, Reddidit immolutum morti generale tributum, Spiritus exutum se gaudeat esse solutum Est ubi virtutum regnum sine labe est statum. I shall take a quotation from a small piece of his called the Envious Man and the Miser; by which it will appear, that he was not, as Winstanley says, a refiner of our language, but on the other hand, that poetry owes him few or no obligations. |
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