[48] Ibid., May 27, 1612. Bishop Goodman, no enemy of Cecil, is inclined to believe that at the time of the secretary's death there was a warrant out for his arrest. Court of King James, i. 45.
[49] The first of these epigrams, in Latin, concludes thus:
Sero, Recurve, moreris sed serio;
Sero, jaces (bis mortuus) sed serio:
Sero saluti publicæ, serio tuæ.
The second is in English:
Whiles two RR's, both crouchbacks, stood at the helm,
The one spilt the blood royall, the other the realm.
A marginal note explains that these were, "Richard Duke of Gloster, and Robert Earl of Salisburie;" the anagram, of which title is "A silie burs." He also styles the late minister a monkey (cercopithecus) and hobgoblin (empusa).
[50] Osborne, Traditional Memoirs, p. 236 (ed. 1811).
[51] Court of King James, i. 44.
[52] Traditional Memoirs, 181.
[53] This feeling was expressed in lampoons quoted by Osborne, e.g.: