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HOGHTON TOWER.
They bade me sing, they bade my smile,
They bade my heart be gay;
They called my spirit forth to while
The laughing hours away.
I've sung, I've smiled: where'er my path
Mirth's dazzling meteors shine;
All hearts have owned its magic power,
And all are glad but mine.
FOOTNOTES:
[29] "Sir George Goring, of Hurst Pierrepoint, in Sussex, representative
of a junior line of the respectable family of Goring, which maintains
its importance in that county, was bred at Court, under the care of his
father, one of Elizabeth's Gentlemen Pensioners; was knighted May 29,
1608; in 1610, occurs as Gentleman in Ordinary of the Bedchamber to
Prince Henry; and now accompanied the king to Scotland as Lieutenant of
his Gentlemen Pensioners. He was recommended to James equally by his
sagacity and a peculiar jocularity of humour, and became the king's
familiar companion."--Nichols's _Royal Progresses_, vol. iii. p. 256.
[30] Sir John Finett, says Anthony a Wood (Fasti by Bliss, vol. i. col,
492), was son of Sir Robert Finett, of Soulton, near Dover, in Kent, son
and heir of Sir Thomas, son and heir of John Finett, of Sienna, in Italy
(where his name is ancient), who came into England in quality of servant
to Cardinal Campegius, and married a maid of honour to Queen Katharine.
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