“Men perish in advance, as if the sun
“Should set 'ere noon!
“To man, why, Stepdame Nature, so severe,
“Why thrown aside thy master-piece half wrought?”
Young.
“The King discovered great towardness and all honest
qualities; he should be taken as a singular gift of God; he
read Cato, Vives and Æsop, and conned very pleasantly.”
Doctor Cox, (Tutor to Edward VI.)
“Senex, juvenis convictu, factus sum melior; ac, sobrietatem,
temperantiam, verecundiam, linguæ moderationem, modestiam,
pudicitiam, integritatem, quam, juvenis a sene
discere debuerat, a juvene Senex didici.”
Erasmus.
EDWARD THE SIXTH.
Protector Somerset the power maintained
Of Sov'reign, when at first young Edward reigned;
The Scots, defeated on their native plains,
Of Pinkey House in sweetly plaintive strains,
Still sing and celbrate with patriot pride,
Their valiant chiefs who fought, and, fighting, died.
Warwick's black envy Somerset enthrals,
And, mourned by many, the Protector falls;
Now, with Northumbria's coronet elate,
Warwick, unconscious of approaching fate,
Rules the young monarch.—Edward's early doom,
Changes his crown already for a tomb.
Christchurch, Bartholomew, and Bridewell bear
A liberal witness of his fostering care;
Religion too began to own reform,
When the bright prospect, black'ning to a storm,
With Edward vanish'd quite;
—and Mary came,
Mary, a blemish to the regal name,
Heir to her father's vice, without one jot
Of good, she came to cast a dark red blot
On British story ne'er to be forgot.
