When rhymers vex'd his ghost and men to see't, What in thy method must our wits amaze This, only this remains; then, thou may'st try, ON THE DEATH OF ANNE, QUEEN OF JAMES THE FIRST. Oh, let me weep! and, though I censur'd be, Flens post posuit Jac. Shirley, Aul. Cather. in 6 On the death of Anne, &c.] These verses, and the epitaph, are written on a fly leaf at the end of a copy of the following work, in the possession of Mr. David Laing of Edinburgh, who kindly communicated them to me: Lacrymæ Cantabrigienses : In obitum Serenissimæ Reginæ Annæ, Conjugis dilectissimæ Jacobi Magna Britanniæ et Hibernia Regis, 1619, 4to. The first four lines were transplanted by Shirley, with some variations, into his poems Upon the Death of G. M. and Upon the Death of King James, as the latter stands in Rawlinson's MS. see p. 443. D. EPITAPHIUM. Lo, here the star, which rose on Denmark's sky, GLOSSARIAL INDEX. ability, iv. 485. A bell-men, iii. 199. Bermudas, iii. 342. adamant broken with blood, ii. Bethlem Gabor, ii. 427, iii. 13, 280. Alexander and his physician, v. black guard, the, iv. 575, vi. 139. Amsterdam, the receptacle of blades, iii. 199. sectaries, v. 37. angel, i. 374, vi. 34. antimasque, ii. 136, vi. 265. Apollo, ii. 284. blue, the general livery of ser. vants, v. 306. Book of Martyrs, i. 294. born to consume fruits, vi. 294. Archy, the king's jester, allu- brave, ii. 418, v. 61. Bear, the, at the bridge foot, chrisom children, iv. 298. coat with a cognizance, i. 301. Endymion, allusion to Lyly's confess and be hang'd, vi. 24. fading, ii. 424. convince, v. 11. copper-lace, iv. 292. countenance, i. 282, ii: 446. country wit, v. 22. courtezans in Venice, v. 7. court-du-guard, v. 402. cuckold's hill, vi. 9. cullice, iii. 62. false deck, iv. 57. Family of Love, iv. 9. fidlers, their intrusion into ta- figs poisoned, i. 141, v. 437. firk, ii. 478. Florentines, iii. 81. for, iii. 447. curse by Jack and Tom, iii. 62. flying people, iii. 506. Cyprus, i. 42. D Dametas, i. 300. decline, v. 290. defend, ii. 129. demerits, iv. 555. Devil, the, i. 383. 230. dotterels, caught by imitations, double-hatch'd, ii. 419. forehead, a low, reckoned beau- tiful, iii. 15. fox'd, vi. 424. foxes, i. 20, 422. fucus, i. 139. G gad, v. 456. give resolution, ii. 66, draw Dun out of the mire, iv. Gresham's foundation, ii. 335. |