Johnson, in his highly finished picture of the same monarch, says,--

"War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field."

J.H. MARKLAND.

Bath.

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SPENSER'S MONUMENT.

In the _Lives of English Poets_, by William Winstanley (London, printed
by H. Clark for Samuel Manship, 1687), in his account of Spenser, p.
92., he says, "he died anno 1598, and was honourably buried at the sole
charge of Robert, first of that name, Earl of Essex, on whose monument
is written this epitaph:--

"Edmundus Spenser, Londinensis, Anglicorum poetarum nostri
seculi fuit princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, et
victuro genio conscripa comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, anno
salutis 1598, et prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui
foelicisime Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem
hæc scripta sunt Epitaphia.

"Hic prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi
Prominens ingenio, proximum ut tumulo
Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere poeta poetam
Conderis, et versud quam tumulo proprior,