Excerpt from Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1: With Remarks

Fame, register of Time,
Write in thy scrowle, that I,
Of wisdome lover, and sweet poesie,
Was cropped in my prime,
And ripe in worth, though greene in years did dye.

Drummond.

Henry Headley was the only son of the Rev. Henry Headley, Vicar of North Walsham, in the county of Norfolk. He was born at Irstead, in Norfolk, in 1766. The reputation of Dr. Parr, as Master of the Grammar School at Norwich, induced Mr. Headley to place his son under his care, at a time when the Doctor had several scholars, who, as well as young Headley, afterwards displayed the great advantages they derived from his instructions.

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