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Great Buckinghame

hath spred a fame

that soone he will be gone

But what say some

that times not come

5

till sure the thirtie one1

which beinge past

Hee’le then make hast

and make noe longer stay

if this be soe

10

hee’le never goe

and thus the most men say.

He hath a trick

that hele be sick

to find his Doctors sport

15

and they must say

he needs must stay

Soe cheates the vulger sort.

But soft Sir knave

we often have

20

had triall of that shift

we know the cause

Of your longe pause

Your whole Intent & drift.

you would not goe

25

the matters soe

You would avoyd the warr

you thinke to have

your bodie safe

in England as you are

30

I wonder here

the whores staye cleere

the Dukes most mightie presse2

Because not one

but these alone

35

to him can have accesse.

Tis said the kinge

the Duke will bringe

to portsmouth3 if he may

and then I hope

40

the D:4 and pope

will beare him quite away.

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Source. Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. c.50, fol. 27r

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¹   the thirtie one: presumably a reference to the thirty-first day of the month in which this poem was written (possibly, therefore, May or March). <back>

²   the Dukes most mightie presse: the meaning of “presse” here is a little unclear. It might have a bawdy innuendo, but it might also refer to the pressing of men for the army to go to Ré. <back>

³   Tis said...to portsmouth: Charles I visited the fleet at Portsmouth in early June 1627. <back>

⁴   the D: the devil. <back>