In 1599 appeared
The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinall. … By Thomas Storer, student of Christ Church in Oxford. At London printed by Thomas Dawson. The poem is written on the model of
Thomas Churchyard's legend on the history of Wolsey in
The Mirrour for Magistrates. It consists of three parts, "Wolseius aspirans", "Wolseius triumphans", and "Wolseius moriens"; these contain respectively 101, 89, and 51 seven-line stanzas of
decasyllabic verse (rhyming , as in
rhyme royal). The volume is dedicated to
John Howson, Queen Elizabeth's chaplain, and there are introductory verses by
Charles Fitzgeffrey and Thomas and
Edward Michelborne, and a poem in fifteen eight-line stanzas addressed to the author by his fellow-collegian
John Sprint. The poem is based on the narratives of
George Cavendish (
Life of Woolsey) and
Raphael Holinshed, and contains a felicitous characterisation of
Richard Foxe. It was praised by
Alberic Gentilis in his
Laudes Academiæ Perusinæ et Oxoniensis (1605). The
Life was reprinted in
Thomas Park's
Heliconia (1815, vol. ii.), and reissued separately in 1826 from the press of
David Alphonso Talboys at Oxford. In ''England's Parnassus
(1600) are about 20 poems by Storer; they are derived from the Life of Wolsey'', and display an elaborate style of metaphor. Some verses by Storer are prefixed to Sir
William Vaughan's
Golden Grove (1600). ==References==