There liued in the daies of this king Henrie the second, diuerse honourable personages and capteins of great fame, for their approued valiancie and experience in warlike enterprises, as Robert earle of Leicester, Hugh bigot earle of Northfolke, Reignold earle of Cornewall, Robert Ferreis earle of Darbie, Richard Lacie, Roger Mowbray, Rafe de Fulgiers, Humfrey Bohun conestable of England, Ranulfe Glandeuille, William Vesey, & Bernard de Ballioll. [Sidenote: _Bale._] Also there flourished in his time here in this land, men of singular learning in arts and sciences, as Nicholas Breakespeare, Serlo surnamed Grammaticus, William Rheualensis, Adam de Euesham, Thomas of Munmouth, Adelbertus Leuita, Geruasius Cicestrensis, Odo Cantianus, Ealred Rhieuellensis, Johannes Sarisburiensis, Clemens Lanthoniensis, Walter Daniell, Robert Knought aliàs Camtus, Robert Folioth, William Ramsey, Senatus Brauonus, Robert the Scribe, Odo Miremouth, Hugh of Reading, Richard of Douer, William of Peterburough, Cicerciensis, Bartholomew Iscanus, and Gilbert de Sempringham, with others. ¶ And here to make an end with this high and mightie prince Henrie the second, I haue thought good to make you partaker of an epitaph, which we find in Matthew Paris and others written of him as followeth. Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum & hîc sepultum Rex Henricus eram, mihi plurima regna subegi, Multiplicíq; modo dúxq; comésq; fui, Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terræ Climata, terra modò sufficit octo pedum. Qui legis hæc, pensa discrimina mortis, & indè Humanæ specula conditionis habe. Quod potes instanter operare bonum, quia mundus Transit, & incautos mors inopina rapit * * * * * Aliud. Tvmuli regis superscriptio breuis exornat, Sufficit hic tumulus, cui non suffecerat orbis, Res breuis est ampla, cui fuit ampla breuis. * * * * * An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere intoomed. Of late king Henrie was my name, which conquerd manie a land, And diuerse dukedoms did possesse, and earledoms held in hand. And yet while all the earth could scarse my greedie mind suffice, Eight foot within the ground now serues, wherein my carcase lies. Now thou that readest this, note well my force with force of death, And let that serue to shew the state of all that yeeldeth breath. Doo good then here, foreslowe no time, cast off all worldlie cares, For brittle world full soone dooth faile, and death dooth strike vnwares. * * * * * An other. Small epitaph now serues, to decke this toome of statelie king: And he who whilome thought whole earth could scarse his mind content, In little roome hath roome at large, that serues now life is spent.