Sir John Danvers (15..-1594)
He was of a mild and peaceable nature, and his sonnes’ sad accident730 brake his heart.
Notes
728Sir John Danvers, the father, <was> a most beautifull and good and even-tempered person. His picture <is> yet extant—my cosen John Danvers (his son729) haz it at... Memorandum, George Herbert’s verses on the curtaine.
731By the same732 (orator of the University of Cambridge), pinned on the curtaine of the picture of old Sir John Danvers, who was both a handsome and a good man:—
Passe not by: search and you may
Find a treasure worth your stay.
What makes a Danvers would you find?
In a faire bodie, a faire mind.
Sir John Danvers’ earthly part
Here is copyed out by art:
But his heavenly and divine
In his progenie doth shine.
Had he only brought them forth,
Know that much had been his worth.
Ther’s no monument to a sonne:
Reade him there733, and I have donne.