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" Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. "
The works of Francis Bacon - Page 357
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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Journal of the Canadian Bankers' Association, Volume 15

Canadian Bankers' Association - Banks and banking - 1908 - 376 pages
...of liberty." Fulke Qreville, Lord Brooke, willed that he should be designated on his gravestone as "servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." On the pedestal of Sir John A. Macdonald's statue in St. Paul's is inscribed his famous utterance:...
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A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1909 - 204 pages
...closest friends. When ho himself was dying he directed that he should be described upon his tomb as " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Even Dr. Thomas Thornton, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, under whom Sidney 513430 was placed when...
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Studies in the peerage

William Willis - Nobility - 1909 - 84 pages
...Greville, a distinguished politician, writer, and thinker. He prepared his own epitaph, " Here lies Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend of Sir Philip Sydney. " He was a voluminous writer, and his works constitute four volumes of the Fuller...
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Archaeologia Cambrensis

Electronic journals - 1917 - 504 pages
...harshly, for its Secretary, who lies buried in S. Mary's, Warwick, wrote for hiss tomb thi epilaph : — "Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sic Philip Sidney. Trophfeum peccati." Yet one word more. On receiving the proof of this introductory...
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Poet Lore, Volume 2

Drama - 1890 - 698 pages
...Beauchamp (the finest in the kingdom), and the humbler tomb of Sir Fulke Greville, with its proud legend, " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." In North Warwickshire, in the neighborhood of Nuneaton, Mr. Timrm'ns identifies the places and people...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1863 - 584 pages
...And dig for Death in delicatest dishes.' FULKE GREVILLE, Lord Brooke, was (as his epitaph declared) servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. He was born at Alcaster, in Warwickshire, in 1554. In accordance with the custom of these times, he...
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Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen: unter der Aufsicht der Königl. Gesellschaft ...

Books - 1889 - 1060 pages
...die Grabschrift, die er sich bei Lebzeiten in der CollegiatKirche von Warwick gesetzt : Fulke Grevil, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Falls die Familie Willonghby (der meines Wissens die alten Brook angehören) Familienpapiere besitzt,...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 13

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 806 pages
...epitaph, to be read to this day under his rotting banner in the church of St. Mary at Warwick, — Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, And friend to Sir Philip Sydney ; his life of whom is still worth reading. And Philip himself in probably looked at in the various...
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