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.
B9 As Cats over houses do go a catter-walting
Notes. This couplet makes a sardonic comment on the extent to which the royal favourite Robert Carr benefited from the fall of Ralegh. Late in 1608, James I granted Carr the manor at Sherborne, Dorset, worth about £1000 per annum in rents, that had been confiscated from Ralegh by the Crown upon his 1603 treason conviction.
As Cats over houses do go a catter-walting
So C is over house. he goes a walter-rauling.
Source. “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript” 28
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