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Sir William Sidney, ancestor to the Earls of Leicester. She was maid of honour to Queen Mary, and married Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa y Cordova, Count of Feria, who came to England with King Philip, and was afterwards the first duke of Feria in Spain.[1] According to Haro, his love for her cost the duke somewhat of rank and fortune. His words are: “De quien se avia enamorado y aficionado de tal manera, que escrivē, que por esta causa no sucedio en el estado y Marquesad de Priego, por no aver contrahido matrimonio con la Marquesa dona Catalina su sobrina, hija del sobredicho Conde don Pedro su hermano.”[2]
With the exception of adapting the orthography to that of our own day, and amending the punctuation, the present reprint is a faithful copy of its original, carefully collated with the text in the collected works of 1557.
Mr. Mitford has recently[3] rescued from oblivion the following epitaph on More by Henry Harder, from the Deliciæ Poetarum Danorum. This we here preserve; and conclude with the much more elegant tribute of the Jesuit Balde, the most estimable poet of his illustrious order.
Ille ille gentis tanta lux Britannicæ,
Columenque voxque civium, Regis manus,
Et purpuratorum alpha Morus præsidium,
Charitum voluptas, dulce Musarum decus,
Virtutis ara, terminus Constantiæ,
Virque omnium, dum vixit, integerrimus.
Hic ille Morus ille divisus jacet
Iræ furentis immolatus principis.
Pœna quid ista fecerit dignum rogas?
Age, arrige aures: ipse quamvis mortuus
Tibi dicet—ipse nempe quid dicit? Nihil.