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Note to Ch XLI--DEATH OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER

In a curious iven by Ben Jonson

to Drummond of Hawthornden, as transcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald,

Leicester's death is ascribed to poison adiven it, representing it to be a restorative

in any faintness, in the hope that she herself

it We have already quoted Jonson's account of this merited stroke of

retribution in a note of the Introduction to this volu satirical epitaph on Leicester occurs in

Drummond's Collection, but is evidently not of his composition:-

EPITAPH ON THE ERLE OF LEISTER

Here lies a valiant warriour,

Who never dreord;

Here lies a noble courtier,

Who never kept his word;

Here lies the Erle of Leister,

Who governed the Estates,

Who love,

And the just Heaven now hates