I am at pains thus to emphasize the acquaintance of Browne and Beaumont, because our acquaintance with the latter is enriched if we may regard him as familiarly associated with the literary coterie of the Inns of Court. Browne and Beaumont had friends in common beside Drayton, Chapman, and Jonson. To, and of, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Philip Sidney, Beaumont writes, as we shall presently notice, in terms of admiration and intimacy. And it is for Mary, the sister of Sir Philip, that William Browne composes, in or after 1621, the immemorial epitaph, Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learn'd, and good as shee Time shall throw his dart at thee. To this Pembroke, William Herbert, third Earl, Browne dedicates the _Second Book_ of the _Pastorals_, 1616, which contains the beautiful tribute to Sidney and his _Arcadia_; and Pembroke shows his regard for the young poet by appointing him tutor to a wealthy ward, and later taking him into the service of his own family at Wilton. In 1614 John Davies of Hereford wrote the third eclogue appended to Browne's _Shepherd's Pipe_, in which he figures as old Wernock, and Browne as Willy; and, in 1616, commendatory verses to the _Second Book_ of Browne's _Pastorals_,--beginning "Pipe on, sweet swaine." He had already in 1610, addressed "the most ingenious Mr. Francis Beaumont" in an epigram of like familiarity and devotion: Some that thy name abbreviate, call thee Franck: So may they well, if they respect thy witt; For like rich corne (that some fools call too ranck) All cleane Wit-reapers still are griping it; And could I sow for thee to reape and use, I should esteeme it manna for the Muse.[85]