| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 13 | | On the Death of Lord Hastings | | By John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| | | | A Yorkist Nobleman, executed in the Tower, London, June 13, 1483. |
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“IN his mouth nations spake; his tongue might be | |
| Interpreter to Greece, France, Italy. | |
| His native soil was the four parts o’ the earth; | |
| All Europe was too narrow for his birth. | |
| A young apostle; and with reverence may | 5 |
| I speak’t, inspired with gifts of tongues as they. | |
| Nature gave him, a child, what men in vain | |
| Oft strive, by art though furthered, to obtain. | | | |
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