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BARON See also:THOMAS See also:VAUX VAUX OF HARROWDEN (1510-1556)  , See also:English poet, eldest son of See also:Nicholas See also:Vaux, 1st See also:Baron Vaux, was See also:born in 1510 . In 1527 he accompanied See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey on his See also:embassy to See also:France; he attended See also:Henry VIII. to See also:Calais and See also:Boulogne in 1532; in 1531 he took his seat in the See also:House of Lords, and was made See also:Knight of the See also:Bath at the See also:coronation of See also:Anne See also:Boleyn . He was See also:captain of the Isle of See also:Jersey until 1536 . He married See also:Elizabeth Cheney, and died in See also:October 1556 . Sketches of Vaux and his wife by See also:Holbein are at See also:Windsor, and a finished portrait of See also:Lady Vaux is at See also:Hampton See also:Court . Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of See also:Surrey (Tottel's See also:Miscellany, 1557) . They are " The See also:assault of See also:Cupid upon the fort where the See also:lover's See also:hart See also:lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the Dittye . . . representinge the See also:Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in See also:Shakespeare's See also:Hamlet misquotes . Thirteen pieces in the See also:Paradise of Dainty Devices (1J76) are signed by him . These are reprinted in Dr A . B . See also:Grosart's Miscellanies of the See also:Fuller Worthies Library (vol. iv., 1872) .

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