[A] I am bound to admit that the only authority for this is
a note written into the text of Aubrey's _Lives_.
[B] The reader will refer to the date at the head of this paper:--
"Heu miserande puer! signa fata aspera rumpas,
Tu Marcellus eris.
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Sed nox atra caput tristi circumvolat umbra."