or one person of that name, occur in the inquisitions, 51 Henry III., and 18 Edward I., seised of lands at Turrock in Essex. The name occurs again in the reign of Edward the Third, and continued in Essex till the reign of Edward the Fourth, when John Torell, of Wyllynghall, in that county, was living. The name gradually became Tyrell. The name of William was frequently used by the early Torells, as may be seen in the account of the family in Harl. MS. 6596; where we have William Torell, second son of Ralph Torell, who was a benefactor to the Priory of Wormley in the time of King John. These gifts are confirmed by the grandson of Ralph, another William Torell, father of a third William, who left Cecilia his sister and heir married to Adam Lucas. P. 259. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance, &c.— The commentators have been so profuse in their illustrations of this passage that they probably thought it superfluous to add the following stanzas, which occur in Drayton's ninth eclogue: Who now a poesy pins not in his cap And not a garland, baldrick wise, doth wear? He from his lass him lavender hath sent, Shewing her love, and doth requital crave; Is that he her should in remembrance have. Roses his youth and strong desire express, Her sage doth shew his sovereignty in all; Thyme, truth; the pansey heartsease maidens call. Drayton has still to recover the rank which justly belongs to him. Warburton passes a sweeping condemnation on him; even Percy is quite niggard in his praise. Yet he was evidently a maker; and he was one of those poets in whose streams Milton bathed in his youth. He may be traced for ever in the odes and eclogues of Drayton: witness the concluding stanza of the ninth eclogue, from which these stanzas are quoted: Above, where heaven's high glories are: We shepherds will adore Her setting and her rise; which remind at once of Lycidas. THE END. |
