prepared to receive it, might have been attended with success, and followed with very important effects.” [37] These rhymes are curious and interesting, and possess sufficient merit to justify our devoting to them the space necessary. I. Baptized Lyonel Tollemache, my name, Since Norman’s conquest of unsoyled fame, Shews my descent from ancestors of worth; And that my life might not belye my birth, Their virtues’ track, with heedful steps I trod: Rightful to men, religious towards God. Train’d in the law, I gain’d the bar and bench, Not bent to kindle strife, but rather quench; Gentle to clients, in my counsels just; With Norfolk’s great Duke, in no little trust; Sir Joyce his heir was my fair faithful wife, Bentley my seat, and seventy years my life. II. Heir of my Father’s name, surname, and seat, Lands, goods, and goodness towards small and great; By Heaven’s dear blessing on my best endeavour, In his fair footsteps did I well persevere; Amongst the best, above the most admir’d, For all the parts my race and place requir’d. High sheriff of Suffolk once, of Norfolk twice, For both approv’d, right, gentle, just and wise; Frank house, frank heart, free of my purse and port Both lov’d, and loving towards every sort; Lord Wentworth’s daughter was my lovely Pheer, And fourscore, six less, lived I pilgrim here. III. My stile and state (least any question should) My Sire and Grandsire have already told; My fame and fortune not unlike to theirs, My life as fair as human frailty bears; My zeal to God, my love to ev’ry good, My Saviour knows, his saints have understood. My many virtues moral and divine, My liberal hand, my loving heart to mine, My piety, my pity, pains and care, My neighbours, tenants, servants, yet declare. My gentle bride Sir Ambrose Jermyn bred; My years lack five of half my grandsire’s thread. IV. Here, with his father, sleeps Sir Lyonel, Knight, Baronet, all honours worthy well; So well the acts of truth, his life exprest His elders’ virtues, and excell’d their best; His prudent bearing in his public place, Suffolk’s high sheriff twice, in sixteen years space. His zeal to God, and towards ill, severity; His temperance, his justice, his sincerity; His native mildness towards great and small, His faith, his love to friends, wife, children all, In life and death; made him belov’d and dear, To God and man, happy in Heaven and here. Happy in soul and body, goods and name; Happy in wedlock with a noble dame, Lord Crumwell’s daughter; happy in his heir, Whose spring of virtues sprouts so young and fair: Whose dear affection, to his founders debtor; Built them this tomb, but in his heart a better.