"Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones."

"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals,…"

"Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, a…"

"The Elizabethans were passionate admirers of the exotic; eager importers of the new and foreign styles in food and dr…"

"... While the Elizabethan world was still going on — and in some respects it was still continuing, in modified form, …"

"In many respects the Elizabethan era is a turning point in English history. Above all, it was a time of economic expa…"

"They sey that owre sovereyn lorde is above his lawys to his pleysewr, and he may make it and breke it as hym lyst, wi…"