Unrecuperable

If now, Sir, it mought like you in approvyng your benevolent mynde towad me, wherein I doo specially trust, to sett furth with your gentill report unto the Kinges highness my true hart and diligent indevour in his graces service, to my importable charges and unrecuperable decay of my lyving, onlas his highness relieve me with his abundaunt and graciouse liberalitie;

He is concededly the dead weight on the ticket, and he has made his party as unrecuperable as his own fortunes.

As the tale trundles on to its downbeat ending, via crosses and double-crosses at Tilbury Docks, we are left in little doubt as to the unrecuperable sadnesses of J’s life, standing in the tattered ruins of his existence.