[362]. Buys golden opinions. Macbeth, I. 7.
The learned pate ducks to the golden fool. Timon of Athens, IV. 3.
Otway was left to starve. Thomas Otway, one of the greatest of English tragedians, was choked by eating too ravenously bread bought after a long fast.
Spenser, kept waiting. See Fuller’s Worthies. The story is that Spenser petitioned Elizabeth thus:—
‘I was promis’d on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I receiv’d nor rhyme nor reason.’
[363]. His favourite poet Butler. Samuel Butler (1612–1680). He was buried in St. Paul’s Churchyard, Covent Garden, at the expense of his friend William Longueville of the Temple.
The time gives evidence of it. See ante, note to p. 136.