Accipe Regnorum Comes illustrissime Carmen,
  Quo mea Musa tuum laudavit moesta Viallum.

And again, in another place,

  Perge, Houerde, tuum virtute referre Viallum,
  Dicerisque tuae clarissima Gloria stirpis.

A certain Treatise called The Art of English Poetry, alledges, That Sir Thomas Wiat the Elder, and Henry Earl of Surrey were the two Chieftains, who having travelled into Italy, and there tasted the sweet and stately Measures and Style of the Italian Poesie, greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar Poesie from what it had been before; and may therefore justly be shewed to be the Reformers of our English Meeter and Style.

I shall only add an Epitaph made by this Noble Earl on Sir Anthony Denny, Knight (a Gentleman whom King Henry the 8th. greatly affected) and then come to speak of his Death.

  Death and the King did as it were contend,
  Which of them two bare Denny greatest Love;
  The King to shew his Love, gan far extend,
  Did him advance his Betters far above: 
    Near Place, much Wealth, great Honour eke him gave,
    To make it known what Power great Princes have.

  But when Death came with his triumphant Gift,
  From worldly Cark he quit his wearied Ghost,
  Free from the Corps, and streight to Heaven it lift,
  Now deem that can who did for Denny most;
    The King gave Wealth, but fading and unsure,
    Death brought him Bliss that ever shall endure.

But to return, this Earl had together with his Learning, Wisdom, Fortitude, Munificence, and Affability; yet all these good and excellent parts were no protection against the King’s Displeasure; for upon the 12th of December, the last of King Henry the 8th. he, with his Father Thomas Duke of Norfolk, upon certain surmises of Treason, were committed to the Tower of London, the one by Water, the other by Land; so that the one knew not of the others Apprehension:  The 15th. day of January next following, he was arraigned at Guildhall, London, where the greatest matter alledged against him, was, for bearing certain Arms that were said belonged to the King and Prince; the bearing whereof he justified.  To be short, (for so they were with him) he was found guilty by twelve common Juriars, had Judgment of Death; and upon the 19th day of the said Month (nine days before the Death of the said King Henry, was beheaded at Tower-Hill) He was at first interred in the Chappel of the Tower, and afterwards, in the Reign of King James, his Remainders of Ashes and Bones were removed to Framingham in Suffolk, by his second Son Henry Earl of Northampton, where in the Church they were interred, with this Epitaph;