In one of the
pictures of Sir Philip Sydney are these verses, viz.-
"Who gives himselfe may well his picture give,
Els were it vain, since both short time doe live."
At the 'upper end is the picture of King James the First sitting in
his throne, in his royall robes; a great piece, as big as the life; by
him on the right hand wall is the picture of William Herbert, first
earle, at length, as big as the life, and under it the picture of his
little dog, of a kind of chesnut colour, that starved himselfe for his
master's death. Here is the picture of Henry Earle of Pembroke and his
Countesse; and of William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain;
severall Earles of Oxford; and also of Aubrey Earle of Oxford, now
living; the pictures of Cardinal Wolsey; Archy (King James's
jester);......, governour to Sir Philip Sydney; Mr. Secretary
Walsingham, in his gown and wrought cap; Mary Countess of Pembrok,
sister of Sir Philip Sydney; the last Lady Abbess of Wilton (Lady Anna
Gawen), a pretty, beautiful, modest Penelope; with many others now
forgotten by me and everybody else.
[The last mentioned name must be erroneous. The Abbess of Wilton at
the time of the dissolution of monasteries was Cecily Bodenham, who
had previously been Prioress of St. Mary's, Kington St. Michael.
- J. B.]
I was heretofore a good nomenclator of these pictures, which was
delivered to me from a child eight yeares old, by old persons relating
to this noble family.
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