Excerpt from The Waverly Novels: Kenilworth, And, Fair Maid of Perth Ashmole's Antiquities of Berkshire, vol. 1. 149. The tradition as to Leicester's death was thus communicated by Jonson to Drummond of Hawthornden The Earl of Leicester ve a bottle of liquor to his lady, which he willed her to use in any ta nthesa. Which she, after his retorne from court, not knowing it was poison. Gave him, and so he died.' - Ben Jonson's Information to Drummond or Hairihoritdeu, H8. - 81r Robert Sibbald's copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.