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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Notes. This deliciously economical epitaph mocks the excessive list of offices and titles—“places”—that Buckingham had accumulated in his thirteen years as a royal favourite and has now taken with him to his early grave.
“Epitaph”
This little Grave embraces
One Duke and twentie places.
Source. BL MS Sloane 826, fol. 181v
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Malone 23, p. 145
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