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Pii13 Feare not brave Felton sith it is thy fate |
Notes. This combination of two Latin anagrams on Felton’s name with an explanatory poem urges the assassin to maintain his resolve in the face of death.
Anagra: Iohannes Feltonus
Non sine fato lues1
Idem
En fas luenti honos2
on the same
Feare not brave Felton sith it is thy fate
that fatall stroake thy life must terminate
Looke in thy name, ah tis thy fate to dy
So fame with fate must bee thy destiny.
Source. BL MS Egerton 2421, fol. 18r-v
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1 Non sine fato lues: “you suffer not without fate”; i.e. “your destiny is to suffer”. <back>
2 En fas luenti honos: “Behold, honour is the destiny/reward of suffering”. <back>