He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.

It is in fact far more probable that, as Langedijk suggests, the habit of portraying Cosimo in grandducal robes was introduced only after his death.

John King made the key point: suicide was worse than other sins because it left no time for repentance, and so it was difficult to believe that many, if any, self-slayers were spared.

They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to the broom-staff with me, I defy'd 'em still […]