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 or Cupid's Sacrifice,’ 1602; and ‘Necromantes, or the two supposed Heads,’ a comical invention acted by the children of St. Paul's about 1602. In 1619 Thomas Campion [q. v.] included in his ‘Epigrammata’ a friendly and appreciative address to Percy in Latin verse (bk. ii. No. 40; cf. edit. by Mr. A. H. Bullen, p. 325).

Percy seems to have lived a troubled life. At one time he was in the Tower on a charge of homicide. In 1638 he was residing obscurely in Oxford, ‘drinking nothing but ale’ (Strafford Letters, ii. 166). He died at Oxford in May 1648, ‘an aged bachelor in Pennyfarthing Street, after he had lived a melancholy and retired life many years.’ He was buried on 28 May in Christchurch Cathedral.

[Ritson's Bibliographia Anglo-Poetica; Fleay's Biogr. Chron. of the English Drama; De Fonblanque's Annals of the House of Percy, ii. 365; W. C. Hazlitt's Bibliographical Collections.] 