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Philip Massinger was born in 1584, the son of Arthur Massinger, a gentleman who held some position of trust in the household of Henry, Earl of Pembroke, who married the sister of Sir Philip Sidney. It was for her that the "Arcadia" was written. And for her Ben Jonson wrote the famous epitaph: --
"Underneath this sable hearse / Lies the subject of all verse. / Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. / Death! ere thou hast slain another, / Learn'd and fair and good as she, / Time shall throw a dart at thee."