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Buckingham, John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick.
Another grand marble monument, on the north side of the chapel, bears the finely-sculptured statues of Robert Dudley Marl of Leicester and Lettice his wife. To the memory of the latter a tablet attached to the wall is inscribed with the following lines by Gervas Clifton, no mean poet of the day. The lines are full of those concertos which made the wit of the times, and partake much of the manner of Cowley, whose offspring is always injured by the efforts of parturition. She died upon Christmas-day in the morning, 1634:
" Look in this vault: and search it well.,
" Much treasure in it lately fell ;
" We all are robb'd, and all do say
" Our wealth was carried this away;
" And that the theft might ne'er be found,
" 'Tis bury'd closely under ground;
" Yet if you gently stir the mould,
" There all our loss you may behold;
" There may you see that face, that hand,
' Which once was fairest in the land,
" Much treasure in it lately fell ;
" We all are robb'd, and all do say
" Our wealth was carried this away;
" And that the theft might ne'er be found,
" 'Tis bury'd closely under ground;
" Yet if you gently stir the mould,
" There all our loss you may behold;
" There may you see that face, that hand,
' Which once was fairest in the land,
" She that in her younger years
" Match'd with two great English peers,
" She that did supply the wars
" With thunder, and the court with stars;
" She that in her youth had been
" Darling to the maiden queen.,
" Match'd with two great English peers,
" She that did supply the wars
" With thunder, and the court with stars;
" She that in her youth had been
" Darling to the maiden queen.,
