Hampstead.
_Spenser's Age at his Death_ (Vol. i., p. 481.).--Touching this subject
I can state that I am well acquainted with an admirable portrait of the
poet, bearing date 1593, in which he is represented as a man of not more
than middle age; so that, whether he died in 1596 or 1598, he may be
said to have died prematurely--_immaturâ morte obiisse_, as the monument
testifies.