le of
Free Schools of _England_, and other Grammatical Works. He is said also
by _Bale_, to have written Epigrams, and other Poetry of various
Subjects in various _Latine_ Verse, though scarce any of them (unless
it be his _Grammar_) now extant, only Mr. _Stow_ makes mention of an
Epitaph made by him, and graven on a fair Tomb, in the midst of the
Chancel of St. _Paul_'s in _London_ containing these Words;

_Inclyta_ Joannes Londini _Gloria gentis,
Is tibi qui quondam_ Paule _Decanus erat,
Qui toties magno resonabat pectore Christum,
Doctor & Interpres fidus Evangelij:
Qui mores hominum multum sermone disertae
Formarat, vitae sed probitate magis:
Quique Scholam struxit celebrem cognomine_ Jesu,
_Hac dormit tectus membra_ Coletus _humo_.

_Floruit sub_ Henrico 7. & Henrico 8.
_Reg. Obiit_ An. Dom. 1519.

_Disce mori Mundo, vivere disce Deo_.

_John Skelton_ (whom we mentioned before) whose Writings were for the
most part Satyrical, mixing store of Gall and Copperas in his Ink,
having fell foul upon Mr. _Lilly_ in some of his Verses, _Lilly_
return'd him this biting Answer;

_Quid me_ Sceltone _fronte sic aperta
Carpis, vipereo potens veneno?
Quid Versus trutina, meos iniqua
Libras? Dicere vera num licebit?
Doctrinae, tibi dum parare famam,
Et doctus fieri studes Poeta,
Doctrinam ne habes, nec es Poeta_.

With Face so bold, and Teeth so sharp,
Of Viper's venom, why dost carp?
Why are my Verses by thee weigh'd
In a false Scale? May Truth be said;
Whilst thou to get the more esteem,
_A Learned Poet_ fain wouldst seem,
_Skelton_, thou art, let all men know it,
Neither Learned, nor a Poet.

He died of the Plague, _Anno_ 1522, and was buried in St. _Paul's_,
with this Epitaph on a Brass Plate, fixed in the Wall by the great
North-Door:

Gulielmo Lilio, _Pauliae Scholae olim Praeceptori primario, &_
Agnetae _Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc a
tergo nunc destructo consepultis_; Georgius Lilius, _hujus
Ecclesiae Canonicus, Parentum Memoriae pie consulens, Tabellam hanc
ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit._

* * * * *

_Sir THOMAS MORE_.

Sir _Thomas More_, a great Credit and Ornament in his Time, of the
_English_ Nation, and with whom the Learned'st Foreigners of that Age,
were proud to have correspondence, for his wit and excellent parts, was