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Pii13  Feare not brave Felton sith it is thy fate


Notes. This combination of two Latin anagrams on Felton’s name with an explanatory poem urges the assassin to maintain his resolve in the face of death.


Anagra: Iohannes Feltonus

Non sine fato lues1

Idem

En fas luenti honos2

on the same

Feare not brave Felton sith it is thy fate

that fatall stroake thy life must terminate

Looke in thy name, ah tis thy fate to dy

So fame with fate must bee thy destiny.



Source. BL MS Egerton 2421, fol. 18r-v

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1   Non sine fato lues: “you suffer not without fate”; i.e. “your destiny is to suffer”. <back>

2   En fas luenti honos: “Behold, honour is the destiny/reward of suffering”. <back>