(Dated York, May 1597.)

[124] Fuller.

[125] M.S. in Dr. Haynes's extracts from the Salisbury collection.—I am unable to discover to what particular circumstance this angry letter refers.

[126] Weldon's Court of King James.

[127] Du Bartas, then an admired writer in England as well as France.

[128] Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. iv.

[129] See Nugæ Antiquæ.

[130] Birch.

[131] Lord Buckhurst had succeeded to the office of lord treasurer on the death of Burleigh.

[132] Nugæ Antiquæ.