Sir John Danvers(15..-1594).

[728]Sir John Danvers, the father, a most beautifull and good and even-tempered person. His picture yet extant—my cosen John Danvers (his son[729]) haz it at ... Memorandum, George Herbert's verses on the curtaine.

He was of a mild and peaceable nature, and his sonnes' sad accident[730]brake his heart.

[731]By the same[732](orator of the University of Cambridge), pinned on the curtaine of the picture of old Sir John Danvers, who was both a handsome and a good man:—

Passe not by: search and you mayFind a treasure worth your stay.What makes a Danvers would you find?In a faire bodie, a faire mind.Sir John Danvers' earthly partHere is copyed out by art:But his heavenly and divineIn his progenie doth shine.Had he only brought them forth,Know that much had been his worth.Ther's no monument to a sonne:Reade him there[733], and I have donne.

Passe not by: search and you mayFind a treasure worth your stay.What makes a Danvers would you find?In a faire bodie, a faire mind.Sir John Danvers' earthly partHere is copyed out by art:But his heavenly and divineIn his progenie doth shine.Had he only brought them forth,Know that much had been his worth.Ther's no monument to a sonne:Reade him there[733], and I have donne.

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