Note 571 — MICRO-CYNICON, SIX SNARLING SATIRES.
Reading edition
On the death, &c.] These lines (the meaning of which is sufficiently obscure) were first printed in Collier’s New Facts regarding the Life of Shakespeare, p. 26, from a MS. miscellany of poetry belonging to the late Mr. Heber. The celebrated actor, Burbage (who also handled the pencil, and is supposed to have painted the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare), died in March 1618-19.