_Inclyta_ Joannes Londini _Gloria gentis, Is tibi qui quondam_ Paule _Decanus erat, Qui toties magno resonabat pectore Christum, Doctor & Interpres fidus Evangelij: Qui mores hominum multum sermone disertae Formarat, vitae sed probitate magis: Quique Scholam struxit celebrem cognomine_ Jesu, _Hac dormit tectus membra_ Coletus _humo_. _Floruit sub_ Henrico 7. & Henrico 8. _Reg. Obiit_ An. Dom. 1519. _Disce mori Mundo, vivere disce Deo_. _John Skelton_ (whom we mentioned before) whose Writings were for the most part Satyrical, mixing store of Gall and Copperas in his Ink, having fell foul upon Mr. _Lilly_ in some of his Verses, _Lilly_ return'd him this biting Answer; _Quid me_ Sceltone _fronte sic aperta Carpis, vipereo potens veneno? Quid Versus trutina, meos iniqua Libras? Dicere vera num licebit? Doctrinae, tibi dum parare famam, Et doctus fieri studes Poeta, Doctrinam ne habes, nec es Poeta_. With Face so bold, and Teeth so sharp, Of Viper's venom, why dost carp? Why are my Verses by thee weigh'd In a false Scale? May Truth be said; Whilst thou to get the more esteem, _A Learned Poet_ fain wouldst seem, _Skelton_, thou art, let all men know it, Neither Learned, nor a Poet. He died of the Plague, _Anno_ 1522, and was buried in St. _Paul's_, with this Epitaph on a Brass Plate, fixed in the Wall by the great North-Door: Gulielmo Lilio, _Pauliae Scholae olim Praeceptori primario, &_ Agnetae _Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc a tergo nunc destructo consepultis_; Georgius Lilius, _hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus, Parentum Memoriae pie consulens, Tabellam hanc ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit._ * * * * * _Sir THOMAS MORE_. Sir _Thomas More_, a great Credit and Ornament in his Time, of the _English_ Nation, and with whom the Learned'st Foreigners of that Age, were proud to have correspondence, for his wit and excellent parts, was born in _Milk-street_, London. _Anno Dom._ 1480. Son to Sir _John More_, Knight, and one of the Justices of the _Kings Bench_. He was bred first in the Family of Archbishop _Morton_, then in _Canterbury_-Colledge in _Oxford_; afterwards removed to an Inn of _Chancery_ in _London_, called _New-Inn_, and from thence to _Lincolns-Inn_; where he became a double Reader. Next, his Worth preferred him to be Judge in the Sheriff of _London's_, Court, though at the same time a Pleader in others; and so upright was he therein, that he never undertook any Cause but what appeared just to his Conscience, nor never took Fee of Widow, Orphan, or poor Person.