777), together with the following
additional lines:
"Marble pyles let no man raise
To her name for after-dayes;
Some kind woman, borne as she,
Reading this, like Niobe,
Shall turne marble, and become
Both her mourner and her tombe."
To the epitaph is subjoined an "Elegie" on the Countess, of
considerable length. When or by whom the epitaph was first ascribed
to Jonson it is not easy to ascertain; but certainly no literary error
has been more frequently repeated. Aubrey is wrong in stating that the
lines were printed in Browne's Pastorals.- J. B.]
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Mr. Adrian Gilbert, uterine brother to Sir Walter Raleigh, was a great
chymist, and a man of excellent parts, but very sarcastick, and the
greatest buffoon in the nation. He was housekeeper at Wilton, and made
that delicate orchard where the stately garden now is. ........... He
had a pension, and died about the beginning of the reign of King
Charles the First. Elias Ashmole, Esq. finds, by Dr. John Dee's
papers, that there was a great friendship and correspondency between
him and Adrian Gilbert, and he often mentions him in his manuscripts.
Now there can be no doubt made but that his half-brother Sir Walter
Raleigh, which was "tam Marti quam Mercurio", had a great acquaintance
with the Earle Henry and his ingenious Countesse.
There lived in Wilton, in those dayes, one Mr. Boston, a Salisbury man
(his father was a brewer there), who was a great chymist, and did
great cures by his art.
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