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.
I7 Of Raleighes life and death the sum of all to tell
Notes. In one source, the scribe transcribes this ambivalent poem as the final two lines of the far more positive “Beholde Brave Raleigh here interr’d” (BL MS Cotton Titus c.7).
Of Raleighes life and death the sum of all to tell
none ever livde so ill, that seem’d to dye so well.
Source. Folger MS V.a.418, fol. 5v
Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 191; BL MS Cotton Titus c.7, fol. 93r
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