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felf in the trade by which he got his fubfiftance and 

 fame, of which I need not give any account. He 

 got in time to have a \oo£ a yeare from the king, 

 alfo a penfion from the cittie, and the like from 

 many of the nobilitie and fome of the gentry, w''^ 

 was well pay'd, for love or fere of his railing in 

 verfe, or profe, or boeth. My lord told me, he 

 told him he was (in his long retyrement and iick- 

 nefs, when he faw him, which v/as often) much 

 afflickted, that hee had profained the fcripture in 

 his playes, and lamented it with horror : yet that, 

 at that time of his long retyrement, his penfion (fo 

 much as came in) was giuen to a woman that 

 gouern'd him (with whome he liu'd and dyed near 

 the Abie in Weftminfter) ; and that nether he nor 

 fhe tooke too much care for next weike : and 

 wood be fure not to want wine : of w'''' he ufually 

 tooke too much before he went to bed, if not 

 oftener and foner. My lord tells me, he knowes 

 not, but thinks he was born in Weftminfter. The 



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