Fama poesis.

Which is thus rendered into English by Winstanly;

Dead in this world, living above the sky,
Intomb'd within this urn doth Lydgate lie;
In former times fam'd for his poetry,
All over England.

[Footnote 1: K. Henry V.]

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JOHN HARDING.

John Harding, the famous English Chronologer, was born (says Bale) in
the Northern parts, and probably Yorkshire, being an Esquire of an
eminent parentage. He was a man addicted both to arms and arts, in the
former of which he seems to have been the greatest proficient:
His first military exploit was under Robert Umsreuil, governor of
Roxborough Castle, where he distinguished himself against the Scots,
before which the King of Scotland was then encamped, and unfortunately
lost his life. He afterwards followed the standard of Edward IV. to
whose interest both in prosperity and distress he honourably adhered.
But what endeared him most to the favour of that Prince, and was
indeed the masterpiece of his service, was his adventuring into
Scotland, and by his courteous insinuating behaviour, so far
ingratiating himself into the favour of their leading men, that he
procured the privilege of looking into their records and original