SACRED

TO POSTERITY AND ETERNITY,

THE TABLET

RECORDS THE MORTAL PART OF THOMAS BODLEY,

AND HIS VAST SOUL THE LIBRARY.

WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE, CHANCELLOR OF THE ACADEMY.

WILLIAM LAUD, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CHANCELLOR OF THE ACADEMY.

STOP, ASKED GUEST,

AND BEHOLD BODLEY, THE GENIUS OF THE PLACE AND MÆCENAS a patron of the arts, named after the Roman patron of Virgil and Horace OF THE MUSES, GREATER THAN AUGUSTUS CAESARS,

HE WHO FOUNDED THE LIBRARY AND THIS STUPENDOUS MASS.

I WISHED YOU TO KNOW THIS, LEST YOU BE IGNORANT. FAREWELL.

SIR KENELM DIGBY, KNIGHT.

JOHN SELDEN, ESQUIRE.

Michael Burghers drew and engraved this.