IN TITUM. VI.
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itus, the brave and valorous young gallant,Three years together in his town hath been;Yet my Lord Chancellor's[468] tomb he hath not seen,Nor the new water-work,[469] nor the elephant.I cannot tell the cause without a smile,--He hath been in the Counter all this while. FOOTNOTES: [468] Sir Christopher Hatton's tomb. See Dugdale's _History of St.Paul's Cathedral_, ed. 1658, p. 83. [469] "The new water-work was at London Bridge. The elephant was anobject of great wonder and long remembered. A curious illustration ofthis is found in the _Metamorphosis of the Walnut Tree of Borestall_,written about 1645, when the poet [William Basse] brings trees of alldescriptions to the funeral, particularly a gigantic oak-- "The youth of these our times that did beholdThis motion strange of this unwieldy plantNow boldly brag with us that are men old,That of our age they no advantage want,Though in our youth we saw an elephant."--_Cunningham_.
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