. William Shakespere : a biography. The junior always preceded the elder poet in such announcements oftheir works; and this was probably determined by the alphabetical arrange-ment. We have many indications that Beaumont was regarded by his contem-poraries as a man of great and original power. It was not with the exaggerationof a brothers love that Sir John Beaumont wrote his affecting epitaph uponthe death of Francis :— Thou shouldst have followd me, but death to blameMiscounted years, and measurd age by fame. Ke was buried by the side of Chaucer and Spenser, in the hallowed eartliwhere it wa
. William Shakespere : a biography. The junior always preceded the elder poet in such announcements oftheir works; and this was probably determined by the alphabetical arrange-ment. We have many indications that Beaumont was regarded by his contem-poraries as a man of great and original power. It was not with the exaggerationof a brothers love that Sir John Beaumont wrote his affecting epitaph uponthe death of Francis :— Thou shouldst have followd me, but death to blameMiscounted years, and measurd age by fame. Ke was buried by the side of Chaucer and Spenser, in the hallowed eartliwhere it was wished that Shakspere should have been laid :— * Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nighTo learned Chaucer; and, rare Beaumont, lieA little nearer Spenser, to make roomFor Shakespear in your threefold, fourfold lodge all four in one bed make a shift,For, until doomsday hardly will a this day and that, by fates be whom your curtains need be drawn again. * • Elegy on Shakespear, by W. [Kraiiiis Benumonl.^ WILLIAM SHAlvSFEKE : When Shaksperes company performed at Wilton, in December, l(J03, it ismore than probable that there was a young man present at those performances,perhaps familiar with Shakspere himself, whose course of life might have beendetermined by the impulses of those festive hours. Philip Massinger, who in1603 was nineteen years of age, was the son of a gentleman filling a service oftrust in the household of the Earls of Pembroke. At this period Philip was acommoner of St. Alban Hall, Oxford. Being sufficiently famed for severalspecimens of wit, he betook himself to making plays. This is Anthony Woodsaccount of the dedication of Massinger to a pursuit which brought him littlebut hopeless poverty. Amongst Henslows papers was found an undated letter,addressed to him by Nathaniel Field, with postscripts signed by Robert Da-borne and Philip Massinger. Malone conjectures that the letter was writtenbetween 1612 and 1615, He
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