(The following lines, which have hitherto been omitted in the bishop’s
poems, are found in the collected dramas of the
“twin stars that run
Their glorious course round Shakespeare’s honoured sun.”
Beaumont was born 1585, and was buried the ninth of March 1615, in the
entrance of St. Bennet’s chapel, Westminster abbey.)
He that hath such acuteness and such wit
As would aske ten good heads to husband it;
He that can write so well, that no man dare
Refuse it for the best, let him beware:
Beaumont is dead! by whose sole death appears
Wit’s a disease consumes men in few yeares.