Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
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him thinke himselfe greate enough; nor could all the Kings bountyes
nor his owne large accessions, rayse a fortune to his Heyre, but after six or eight yeeres spent in outward opulency, and inward murmur and trouble, that it was no greater, after vast summes of mony and greate wealth gotten and rather consumed then injoyed, without any sense or delight in so greate prosperity, with the agony that it was no greater, He dyed unlamented by any, bitterly mentioned by most, who never pretended to love him, and sevearely censured and complayned of, by those who exspected most from him, and deserved best of him, and left a numerous family, which was in a shorte tyme worne out, and yett outlyved the fortune he left behinde him. [Footnote 1: In the MS. the words 'he travelled into forrainge parts' occur after 'Middle temple', as well as after 'constituted'. The whole sentence is faulty. 'After this' is inserted in the edition of 1702 before 'he betooke'.] [Footnote 2: 'as' inserted in late hand in MS. in place of 'and'.] [Footnote 3: 'off' added in later hand in MS.; 'notice of', ll. 2, 6, ed. 1704.] 6. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL. _Thomas Howard, fourteenth Earl of Arundel._ |
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