Their glorious course round Shakespeare’s honoured sun.”

Beaumont was born 1585, and was buried the ninth of March 1615, in the entrance of St. Bennet’s chapel, Westminster abbey.)

He that hath such acuteness and such wit

As would aske ten good heads to husband it;

He that can write so well, that no man dare

Refuse it for the best, let him beware:

Beaumont is dead! by whose sole death appears

Wit’s a disease consumes men in few yeares.

WILLIAM LORD HOWARD,
OF EFFINGHAM,