Note LIII — THE 'LIVES' (continued 4)
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] 'Twas Harry Martyn that saved Sir William Davenant's life in the Howse.—When they were talking of sacrificing one, then said Henry that 'in sacrifices they always offered pure and without blemish: now yee talke of making a sacrifice of an old rotten rascall.' Vide H. Martyn's Life, where by this very jest, then[778] forgot, the lord Falkland saved H. Martyn's Life.