Shakespear,

p. 225.

I think I cannot better conclude this Account of this great Minifter of State and Favourite, than by his Character drawn out of Shakespear, who, in his Play of Henry the Eighth, has thefe Words:

Griffith to Q. Katherine.

This Cardinal,

Tho' from an Humble Stock, undoubtedly

Was fashion'd to much Honour. From his Cradle
He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wife, fair-spoken, and perfwading:
Lofty and fowre to them that Lov'd him not,
But to thofe Men that fought him, Sweet as Summer.
And tho he were unfatified in Getting,

(Which was a Sin) yet in Beftowing, Madam,
He was moft Princely: Ever witneß for him
Thofe Twins of Learning, that he rai'd in You,
Ipswich and Oxford, one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to out-live the Good that did it.
The other tho' unfinish'd) yet so famous,
So excellent in Art, and still fo rifing,
That Chriftendom shall ever fpeak bis Virtue.
His Overthrow heap'd Happineß upon him:
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the Blefjedneß of being little :
And added greater Honours to his Age
Than Man cou'd give him.

Alfo

Alfo this, by Dr. Corbet, late Bishop of Norwich, in his Poems, page 4.

Search, find his Name, but there is none: O Kings,
Remember whence your Power and Vaftness fprings.
If not as Richard now, fo may you be,

Who bath no Tomb, but Scorn and Memory.
And tho' from his own Store Woolsey might have
A Palace or a College for his Grave,

Yet here he lies interr'd, as if that all
Of him to be remember'd were his Fall.
Nothing but Earth to Earth, no pompous Weight
Upon him, but a Pebble or Quait.

If Thou art thus neglected, what fhall We
Hope after Death, that are but Shreds of Thee?

FINIS.

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