A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
I1 Raleigh in this thy selfe thy selfe transcends
Notes. A longer version of the title, in another source, states that this is “advise” on the occasion of Ralegh “preparing for Guaiana 1617” (BL MS Cotton Titus c.7). Silvanus Scory was a client of Ralegh’s friend and fellow prisoner in the Tower, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland.
“Sylvanus Scory to Sir Walter Raleigh”
Raleigh in this thy selfe thy selfe transcends.
When howerly tastinge of a bitter Challice.
Sereninge1 the sad faces of thy frends.
Thou smilest at fortunes minions and her Mallice.
Hold thee firme heere, cast ancor in this port.
5Heere art thou safe till death enfranchise thee
Heere neither harme nor feare of harmes resort.
Heere though enchaynd thou livest in liberty.
Nothinge in earth hath permanent abode.
Nothinge shall languish under sorrow still.
10The fates have set a Certayne period.
As well to those that doe as suffer ill.
Source. Bodleian MS Smith 17, p. 124
Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 189; BL MS Cotton Titus c.7, fol. 94r
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