[The story is this:--A few days previously to his death, Raleigh sent
for Walter Burre, who printed his History; and asking him how the work
had sold, received for answer, "so slowly that it had undone him." Upon
which Sir Walter brought from his desk a continuation of the work to
his own time, and, throwing it into the fire, said to Burre, "the
second volume shall undo no more; this ungrateful world is unworthy of
it." (Winstanley's _English Worthies_, p. 256.) There is, however, no
satisfactory authority for the truth of this anecdote; and it has been
rejected by Arthur Cayley, and his other biographers.]
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