[48] _Ibid._, May 27, 1612. Bishop Goodman, no enemy of Cecil, is inclined to believe that at the time of the secretary's death there was a warrant out for his arrest. _Court of King James_, i. 45. [49] The first of these epigrams, in Latin, concludes thus: Sero, Recurve, moreris sed serio; Sero, jaces (bis mortuus) sed serio: Sero saluti publicæ, serio tuæ. The second is in English: Whiles two RR's, both crouchbacks, stood at the helm, The one spilt the blood royall, the other the realm. A marginal note explains that these were, "Richard Duke of Gloster, and Robert Earl of Salisburie;" the anagram, of which title is "A silie burs." He also styles the late minister a monkey (_cercopithecus_) and hobgoblin (_empusa_). [50] Osborne, _Traditional Memoirs_, p. 236 (ed. 1811). [51] _Court of King James_, i. 44. [52] _Traditional Memoirs_, 181. [53] This feeling was expressed in lampoons quoted by Osborne, e.g.: "Here lies Hobinall, our pastor while here, That once in a quarter our fleeces did sheare. For oblation to Pan his custom was thus, He first gave a trifle, then offer'd up us: And through his false worship such power he did gaine, As kept him o' th' mountain, and us on the plaine." Again, he is described as "Little bossive Robin that was so great, Who seemed as sent from ugly fate, To spoyle the prince, and rob the state, Owning a mind of dismall endes, As trappes for foes, and tricks for friends." (_Ibid._ 236.) Oldmixon (_History of Queen Elizabeth_, p. 620) says of the Earl of Essex, "'Twas not likely that Cecil, whose Soul was of a narrow Size, and had no Room for enlarged Sentiments of Ambition, Glory, and Public Spirit, should cease to undermine a Hero, in comparison with whom he was both in Body and Mind a Piece of Deformity, if there's nothing beautiful in Craft." [54] _Court and Character of King James_, § 10. [55] _Ambassade_, i. 58. [56] _Ibid._ 401. [57] Against Northumberland nothing was proved (_vide_ de la Boderie, _Ambassade_, i. 178), except that he had admitted Thomas Percy amongst the royal pensioners without exacting the usual oath. He in vain demanded an open trial, but was prosecuted in the Star Chamber, and there sentenced to a fine of £30,000 (equal to at least ten times that sum in our money), and to be imprisoned for life.