then why
  Without all ceremony should he die? 
  Was it because his life and death should be
  Both equal patterns of humility? 
  Or that perhaps this only glorious one
  Was above all, to ask, why had he none? 
  Yet he, that lay so long obscurely low,
  Doth now preferr’d to greater honours go. 
  Ambitious men, learn hence to be more wise,
  Humility is the true way to rise: 
  And God in me this lesson did inspire,
  To bid this humble man, “Friend, sit up higher.”

[Footnote 1:  On this monument is a bust of Hooker, representing him in his cap and gown.]

AN APPENDIX
TO THE
LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

[Sidenote:  Other details]

And now, having by a long and laborious search satisfied myself, and I hope my Reader, by imparting to him the true relation of Mr. Hooker’s life, I am desirous also to acquaint him with some observations that relate to it, and which could not properly fall to be spoken till after his death; of which my Reader may expect a brief and true account in the following Appendix.

[Sidenote:  Date of death]

And first, it is not to be doubted but that he died in the forty-seventh, if not in the forty-sixth year of his age:  which I mention, because many have believed him to be more aged:  but I have so examined it, as to be confident I mistake not:  and for the year of his death, Mr. Camden, who in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth, 1599, mentions him with a high commendation of his life and learning, declares him to die in the year 1599; and yet in that in of his Monument, set up at the charge of Sir William Cowper, in Bourne Church, where Mr. Hooker was buried, his death is there said to be in anno 1603; but doubtless both are mistaken; for I have it attested under the hand of William Somner, the Archbishop’s Registrar for the Province of Canterbury, that Richard Hooker’s Will bears date October 26th in anno 1600, and that it was proved the third of December following. [And the Reader may take notice, that since I first writ this Appendix to the Life of Mr. Hooker, Mr. Fulman, of Corpus Christi College, hath shewed me a good authority for the very day and hour of Mr. Hooker’s death, in one of his books of Polity, which had been Archbishop Laud’s.  In which book, beside many considerable marginal notes of some passages of his time, under the Bishop’s own hand, there is also written in the title-page of that book—­which now is Mr. Fulman’s—­this attestation:  Ricardus Hooker vir summis doctrinae dotibus ornatus, de Ecclesia praecipue Anglicana optime meritus, obiit Novemb. 2, circiter horam secundam post-meridianum, Anno 1600.]

[Sidenote:  His daughters]