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Pi10 Beehold this Obsequie: but without teares |
Notes. Buckingham was buried in Westminster Abbey on 18 September 1628, in a subdued, tense and occasionally chaotic nocturnal ceremony. Couplets like this one reveal much of what troubled Buckingham’s mourners: for many, if not most, of Buckingham’s contemporaries, his death was a time not for grief but for celebration.
“Upon his Funerall”
Beehold this Obsequie:1 but without teares;
The birth of all our Joy, and grave of feares.
Source. BL MS Sloane 826, fol. 181v
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Malone 23, p. 197
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