[Bards] "The Queen's Champion Retires"--George Peele

[Jay Rudin]

Sorry about that.  Try the full address:

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryLee.htm

Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin


> <sigh> I went to look up the full text of that and the www.tudorplace.com
> website is blocked!  Is there somewhere else it might be?

> Cadfan quoted:
>
>> 'Anne outlived Sir Henry, but both were buried at Quarrandon, near
>> Aylesbury, in a chapel of which only a remnant of the outer wall now
>> remains. Sir Henry's monument showed him lying down in armour with an
>> effigy of Anne kneeling at his feet.'
>
> Since this is the bards' list, we should recognize that, after his death,
> that relationship and monument were commemorated in verse by John Aubrey 
> as
> follows (from his biography at www.tudorplace.com):
>
> Here lies the good old knight Sir Harry,
> Who loved well but would not marry;
> While he lived and had his feeling,
> She did lie and he was kneeling.
> Now he's dead and cannot feel,
> He doth lie and she doth kneel.