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The Works in Verse and Prose

(including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes

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In Titam. 6.

Titas, the braue and valorous young gallant,
Three yeares together in this towne hath beene;
Yet my Lord Chancellor's tombe he hath not seene
Nor the new water-worke, nor the Elephant.
I cannot tell the cause without a smile,—
He hath beene in the counter all this while.