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Piii12 Honor, worth, greatnes, and what part so ere

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Notes. One source (Bodleian MS Ashmole 38) attributes this sympathetic epitaph to John Heape, to whom two libels on Buckingham (“And art return’d againe with all thy Faults” and “I that my countrey did betray”) are also attributed.

“An Epitaph on the Duke of Bucking:”

Honor, worth, greatnes, and what part so ere

Conduce to make Nobillitie; lyes heere

Envie be silent, and nowe cease for shame

To spend thy Furie on a downefall frame

Aske Charitie her censure, she will tell

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Though Earths in Earth, his Soule in Heaven doth dwell.


Source. Bodleian MS Malone 23, p. 138

Other known sources. Bodleian MS Ashmole 38, p. 14; Bodleian MS Dodsworth 79, fol. 158r; PRO SP 16/114/70

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