8.  Spenser's tomb is of grey marble,
and has suffered greatly by time.  It was
erected in an age when taste was in its in-
fancy in England, and yet has something
in it venerably plain, and not absurdly or-
namental.  The inscription upon it is as
follows:
Here lies (expecting the second coming of
    our Saviour Christ Jesus) the Body of
    Edmund Spenser, the Prince of Poets in
    his time, whose divine Spirit needs no
    other witness than the works he left
    behind him.  He was born in London
    in 1510, and died 1596.

9.  Above Spenser's monument is that of
Samuel Butler, the author of Hudibrass.

10.  A plain and neat monument of
white marble in memory of that divine poet,
John Milton, who died in 1674.  Under
a very elegant bust made by Rysbrack is this
inscription:
In the year of our Lord Christ 1737, this
    bust of the author of Paradise Lost was
    placed here by William Benson, Esq; one
    of the two auditors of the imprest to his
    Majesty, &c.

11.  A monument erected to the memory
of Thomas Shadwell, is adorned with his
bust crowned with a chaplet of bays, an urn,
and other decorations.  It was erected to
his honour by his son Dr. Thomas Shad-
well, and the Latin inscription informs us,
that he was descended from an ancient fa-
mily in Staffordshire; was Poet Laureat and
Historiographer in the reign of King Wil-
liam, and died November 20, 1692, in
the fifty-fifth year of his age.  This poet