catastrophe of the
most tragical kind closed the days of this worthy man.

One Haywood, who had been many years in his service, and had behaved
with fidelity and honour, expostulated with him freely (while they
were alone) for his not having received a due reward for his services.
His lordship enraged at his presumption, and giving way to his
passion, reprimanded him very severely for his insolence; for which
the villain being now wrought up to the highest degree of fury, took
an opportunity to stab him with his dagger through the back into the
vitals, of which wound he instantly died, September 30, 1628.

The murderer then struck with remorse, horror and despair, and all the
natural attendants of his guilt, retired to his chamber, and having
secured the door, fell upon the same weapon with which he had
assassinated his master, and anticipated on himself the justice
reserved for the hand of an executioner. Lord Brooke was interred in
Warwickshire, under a monument of black and white marble[1], whereon
he is stiled, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James,
and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.

His works are chiefly these, viz.

Alaham, a Tragedy; printed in folio 1633. This play (says Langbaine)
seems an imitation of the ancients; the Prologue is spoken by a ghost.
This spectre gives an account of each character, which is perhaps done
after the manner of Euripides, who introduced one of the chief
actors as the Prologue, whose business it was to explain all those
circumstances which preceded the opening the stage. He has not in one
scene throughout introduced above two speakers, in compliance with
Horace's rule in his _Art of Poetry_;

nec quarta loqui persona laboret.

Mr. Langbaine professes himself ignorant from whence the plot is
taken, neither can he find the name of any such Prince as Alaham, that
reigned in Ormus, where the scene lyes, an island situated at the
entrance of the Persian Gulph, which is mentioned by Mr. Herbert[2] in
his account of Ormus.

Mustapha, a Tragedy, printed in folio 1633. This play likewise seems
to be built on the model of the ancients, and the plot is the same
with that of lord Orrery's tragedy of the same title, and taken from
Paulus Jovius, Thuanus, &c. Both these plays are printed together in
folio, London, 1633, with several other poems, as a Treatise on Human
Learning; An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour; A Treatise of Wars. All
these are written in a stanza of si