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The King’s England, Ed. Sir Arthur Mee, 1936, pp. 272-3, 265.

St. Mary’s Church, Warwick ... Perhaps the most interesting man sleeping here is Fulke Greville, servant of monarchs and friend of Sir Philip Sidney ... The death of Sidney shook Greville to the soul; there is a letter he wrote at the time which can hardly be read without tears. He wrote his friends life, a noble loving tribute; and with a radiant vision as to posterity’s estimate of him ... On his tomb lie three swords and a dagger; they were on his coffin at his funeral. Many a time Philip Sidney must have seen them, for Sidney was to Greville closer than a brother.

It is interesting to note that the great brotherly love between Fulke Greville and Philip Sidney, represented by the monument in St Mary’s Church, Warwick, has been commemorated through the ages. In 1879, the Harvard veterans of the American Civil War, the men of Gone with the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, and North and South, paid for a stained glass window to represent the brotherly love between Harvard men. The window shows the poem in which Philip Sidney declared his great love for his brother Fulke, ‘MY TRUE LOVE HATH/ MY HEART AND I HAVE HIS’.

Harvard Memorial Hall Stained Glass Windows

Installed between 1879 and 1902, the majority of windows were commissioned and funded by various alumni classes. The Harvard Corporation's original guidelines for the windows required that: Each window shall contain one or more upright figures, about the size of life, with an ornamental panel or inscription occupying the ventilator panel below, all with a boarder or canopy; and that these figures shall be typical or historical. The choice of design is also restricted to characters prior to the time of Shakespeare, it being the intention that the windows, when all complete, shall unite harmoniously into one great theme.

Artist: Daniel Cottier
Manufacturer: Daniel Cottier
Date: 1879
Funded by: Class of 1857

This window shows the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney wearing a costume of black doublet and britches and hose with a high white ruff at his neck and a dark red cloak off his shoulders. At his left side hangs a sword crossing down behind his legs. In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper on which five lines are written in small Latin capital letters. They read MY TRUE LOVE HATH/ MY HEART AND I HAVE HIS/ BY JUST EXCHANGE ONE TO/ THE OTHER GIVEN/ I HOLD HI . . . . Sidney died from a wound in the Battle of Zutphen. … fitting emblem to commemorate the Union dead of the class. Photographed by: Stephen Sylvester and Yosi A.R-Pozeilov Digital Imaging and Photography Group Harvard College Libraries