prescription, meaning to have added, also, somewhat of their own for her comfort, as the doctor, upon just cause, suspected. Seeing their great importunity, and the small need which the good lady had of physic, therefore he flatly denied their request; misdoubting, as he afterwards reported, lest, if they had poisoned her under the name of _his_ potion, he might have been hanged for a colour of _their_ sin. Marry, the said doctor remained well assured that this way taking no place, she should not long escape violence, as after ensued.”--Sec. Mem. [Illustration] <g>In taking</g> leave of <g>Kenilworth</g>, one cannot but regret with Fuller that so splendid a structure should have passed so rapidly into a mass of ruins; and that, not by the slow waste of time--not by the frequency of siege, nor the severity of tempests,--but by the wanton hand of aggression. “I am not stocked with charity,” says this quaint writer, “to pity the miners thereof, if the materials of this castle answered not their expectation who destroyed it. Some castles,” he adds, “have been demolished for security, which I behold destroyed, ‘se defendendo,’ without offence; others demolished in the heat of wars, which I look upon as Castle Slaughter: but I cannot excuse the destruction of this <g>Castle</g> from wilful murder, being done in cold blood since the end of the wars.” “Hark! ’twas a stone that from yon turret top Dropp’d heavily upon the sod below. These falling fragments of departed strength, These mouldering masses, make one feel ashamed That earthly grandeur has so little power To hand her greatness down to future times.”