GEORGE LLOYD.

Dublin.

[The author was Sir Hugh Plat, who, says Harte, "not to mention his

most excellent talents, was the most ingenious husbandman of the age he

lived in. In a word, no man ever discovered, or at least brought into

use, so many new sorts of manure." The _Delights for Ladies_ first

appeared in 1602, and passed through several editions. Douce merely

quotes this work. Plat was the author of several other works: see Watt

and Lowndes.]

_Burton's Death._--Did Burton, author of _Anatomy of Melancholy_, commit

suicide?

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