blot of endless blame, You, fairest Lady leave out of this place, Remembrance of your gracious nameWherewith that courtly garlond most ye graceAnd deck the world." Besides Edmund Spenser, to whom she was distantly related, she was a patron of Thomas Nashe and the composer John Dowland, who mentions her in his First Book of Songs (1597). Elizabeth's miniature portrait was painted by Nicholas Hilliard on an unknown date. Death Elizabeth died on 25 February 1618, and was buried on 2 March in Westminster Abbey, London. References 1552 births 1618 deaths 16th-century English women English baronesses 16th-century English nobility 17th-century English women Elizabeth