[830]Ex registro capellae Turris London, scil. 1600[831], 'Robert, earle of Essex, beheaded, Febr. 6th.'
From my lady Elizabeth, viscountesse Purbec, repeated by her:—
1. There is none, oh none but you,Who from me estrange your sight,Whom mine eyes affect to viewAnd chained eares heare with delight.2. Others' beauties others move,In you I all graces find:Such are the effects of loveTo make them happy that are kind.3. Woemen in fraile beauty trust,Only seeme you kind to me,Still be truly kind and justFor that can't dissembled bee.4. Deare, afford me then your sight,That surveighing all your lookesEndlesse volumnes I may writeAnd fill the world with envyed bookes.5. Which when after ages viewAll shall wonder and despayre,Women, to find a man so true,And men, a woeman halfe so faire—
1. There is none, oh none but you,Who from me estrange your sight,Whom mine eyes affect to viewAnd chained eares heare with delight.
2. Others' beauties others move,In you I all graces find:Such are the effects of loveTo make them happy that are kind.
3. Woemen in fraile beauty trust,Only seeme you kind to me,Still be truly kind and justFor that can't dissembled bee.
4. Deare, afford me then your sight,That surveighing all your lookesEndlesse volumnes I may writeAnd fill the world with envyed bookes.
5. Which when after ages viewAll shall wonder and despayre,Women, to find a man so true,And men, a woeman halfe so faire—
made by Robert, earl of Essex, that was beheaded.
[832]The tradition is that the bell of Lincoln's-Inne was
brought from Cales (Cadiz), tempore reginae Elizabethae,
plundered in the expedition[833]under