"Hit is the poynt of a wyse man to try and then truste,
For Hapy is he who fyndeth one that is juste.
"T. Clarke."
In the same part of the room between the two last recesses is this, in
old English:
"Ano. Dni ... Mens. As.
1568 J.H.S. 23
"No hope is hard or vayne
That happ doth ous attayne."
And on the wall on the top of the Beauchamp Tower, are the following
lines on a Goldfinch:--
"Where Raleigh pined within a prison's gloom,
I chearful sung, nor murmur'd at my doom,
Where heroes bold and patriots firm could dwell,
A Goldfinch in Content his note might swell;
But death more gentle than the law's decree,
Hath paid my ransom from captivity.
"Buried June 23rd, 1794, by a fellow-prisoner
in the Tower of London."
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