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.
I13 Beholde Brave Raleigh here interr’d
Notes. This poem is transcribed in a manuscript collection devoted to Ralegh’s life and death, where it is attributed to “Sir A[rthur] Thr[ockmorton]”, Ralegh’s brother-in-law. In another source, the scribe combines this poem with the ambivalent couplet “Of Raleighes life and death the sum of all to tell” (BL MS Cotton Titus c.7).
“An Epitaphe by Sir A. Thr:”
Beholde Brave Raleigh here interr’d
Whose Virtue, Vallor, Learning, Witt
Our greate rare Queene1 raysde and preservde
All buryed in a place unfitt2
which earth nor envie can make die
5but live with all eternity
take this remembrance from thy Brother3
Sith he may give thee now no other.
Source. Folger MS V.a.418, fol. 5r
Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 191; BL MS Cotton Titus c.7, fol. 93r
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2 buryed in a place unfitt: Ralegh was bured in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, close to the site of his execution. <back>
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