Sed Carmina major imago.
Ovid. <Trist. I. vii. 11.>
[Edmund Waller[1165]:—] he made some verses of his owne dyeing, but a fortnight, or little more, before his decease.
Notes.
[CG] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 112, not in Aubrey's handwriting, is the same Thema genethliacon, with the judgement upon it. There Aubrey notes:—
'This account I had from Dr. <Peter> Birch, minister of St. James's, who maried one of Mr. Waller's daughters.'
The conclusion of the judgement there is:—
'Natus apud Colshill[XCIV.] in agro Hartfordiensi juxta ... Denatus Oct. 20, 1687; sepultus Beconsfield in agro Buckinghamiensi. Pater, Robertus Waller; mater, Anne Hamden.'
[XCIV.] 'Tis a mistake: vide next leafe—<i.e. fol. 113>.