sick, I must dye:/ Lord, have mercy on us", Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567-1640) , Ben Johnson (1572-1637) , author of Volpone (1605-6), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre (1614), and John Webster (1580-1635) , the last. Excuse me while I yawn? In 1585 left the provinces for London, the