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would have died as useless and as burdensome to society as the son of the senator Eufemian.
Note 13.Page 80.
"What I expended, I have; what I gave away, I have."
From hence, in all probability, Robert Byrkes derived the quaint epitaph, which is to be found, according to Gough, in Doncaster church, "new cut" upon his tomb in Roman capitals.
"Howe: Howe: who is heare:
I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margeret my feare[1]
That I spent, that I had:
That I gave, that I have:
That I left, that I lost.
A.D. 1579.
Quod Robertus Byrkes,
who in this worlde
did reygne thre
score yeares and seaven,
and yet lived not one."
Note 14.Page 81.
The story seems here to be defective; "what I expended, I have: what I gave away, I have," re-
- ↑ Wife—properly companion, comrade.
