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.
Pii5 Some say the Duke was gratious, vertuous, good
Notes. This defence of Felton is more playful than is typical, arguing that if Buckingham was as virtuous as his apologists asserted, Felton did him a favour by sending him to his eternal heavenly rewards ahead of schedule.
“On Feltons killing the Duke”
Some say the Duke was gratious, vertuous, good,
And Felton basely did to spill his blood.
If that were true: What did hee then amisse
In sending him more quicklie to his blisse?
Pale death seemes pleasing to a good Mans Eye,
5And onely bad-men are afrayd to die.
Left he this Kingdome to possesse a better?
Why Felton then hath made the Duke his debter.
Source. BL MS Sloane 826, fol. 188v
Other known sources. Rous 29; Trevelyan Papers 3.172; Wit Restor’d 58; Bodleian MS Ashmole 47, fol. 31r; Bodleian MS Dodsworth 79, fol. 158r; Bodleian MS Douce 357, fol. 18v; Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. e.14, fol. 19r; Bodleian MS Malone 23, p. 195; Bodleian MS Rawl. Poet. 26, fol. 78v; Bodleian MS Tanner 465, fol. 102v; BL Add. MS 22959, fol. 27r; BL MS Egerton 923, fol. 45v; BL MS Harley 791, fol. 57r; BL MS Lans. 498, fol. 141v; CUL Add. MS 42, fol. 37v; CUL MS Dd.11.73, fol. 67v; Houghton MS Eng. 1278, item 12; Rosenbach MS 239/27, p. 318
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