. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, etter from SIB THOMAS OVERBURY. lxvii Much—very much could be said upon the Over-bury murder, aud documents, damning to the King,could, if space permitted, be adduced. But thewriter reserves them for an opportunity of enteringmore fully into the subject. The character of Mayerne yet remains to bethoroughly investigated, and his connection with theKing fully explained. When this has been accom-plished it will then probably be found that , the courtly pander to the vices of thegreaf, was the instrument, and Jame
. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, etter from SIB THOMAS OVERBURY. lxvii Much—very much could be said upon the Over-bury murder, aud documents, damning to the King,could, if space permitted, be adduced. But thewriter reserves them for an opportunity of enteringmore fully into the subject. The character of Mayerne yet remains to bethoroughly investigated, and his connection with theKing fully explained. When this has been accom-plished it will then probably be found that , the courtly pander to the vices of thegreaf, was the instrument, and James the First, thedouble-faced, serpent-tongued, King of England,the murderer! James to Somerset, printed in Mr. Halliwells Letters ofthe Kings of England, vol. ii. p. 126, is perhaps the mostextraordinary epistle from a king to a subject on it has been remarked, it prepares the mind forthe darker hints and threatened revelations that followedshortly afterwards. 1, line 14, for Griffit read 54, line 1, for swallowers read t: H I S WIFE WITH ADDITION OF many new Elegies upon his vntimely and much lamented death. As Also New Newes, and diuers more Characters, (never before annexed) written by him- felfe and other much learned Gentlemen. The ninth imprejjion augmented. LONDON, Printed by Edward Griffit for Laurence Lijle, and are to be fold at his JJ)op at the Tigers Head in Paules Churchyard. 1616.
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