Note 1. This epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke—“Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother”—was first printed in Osburne’s Traditional Memoirs of the Reign of King James, 1658. It also appears in a MS. of the middle seventeenth century, in Trinity College, Dublin, where it is subscribed “William Browne;” Jonson’s claim to the poem is due to Whalley’s supposition, and because it has generally been included amongst Jonson’s poems by his editors. [back]
