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Niii3 Anagram on Count Gondomar

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Notes. In one source, this anagram is attributed to “Mr W. Breton of Emman. Coll.” (Bodleian MS Sancroft 53).

Gondamore

Anag:

Romane Dog.

This Dog can barke, and bite rather then faile;

Yet wants he one Dogs tricke to wag his taile

5

xx A Fistula1


Source. BL MS Egerton 2725, fol. 47r

Other known sources. Bodleian MS Sancroft 53, p. 8; BL MS Sloane 1489, fol. 12r; Folger MS E.a.6, fol. 84r

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1   A Fistula: Gondomar was thought to suffer from an anal fistula (a pipe-like, suppurating growth), hence his inability to “wag his taile”. <back>

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