Sir John Danvers (15..-1594).

[728]Sir John Danvers, the father, <was> a most beautifull and good and even-tempered person. His picture <is> yet extant—my cosen John Danvers (his son[729]) haz it at ... Memorandum, George Herbert's verses on the curtaine.

He was of a mild and peaceable nature, and his sonnes' sad accident[730] brake his heart.

[731]By the same[732] (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 there[733], and I have donne.