Sir Thomas Clopton

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    And graven with diamonds in letters plain
    There is written her fair neck round about:
    “Noli me tangere for Caesar’s I am,
    And wild for to hold though I seem tame.”
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    A great deal of us is together, and we can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon. John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with hopeful heart.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)