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.

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H22 Anagram on Sir Thomas Overbury

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Notes. In the only known source of this anagram, it is transcribed alongside the more popular “Libellous Anagram on Frances Howard”.

Thomas Overburie - O! O! a busie murther.


Source. BL Harley MS 646, fol. 26r

Other known sources. D’Ewes, Autobiography 1.87

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Edited by Alastair Bellany and Andrew McRae
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