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D13 You say that Malefacit was dead:
Notes. Although Cecil is not explicitly identified in the poem, the sole extant copy is transcribed as part of a collection of anti-Cecil verse. The last line’s reference to “stinking evill” also matches the much-repeated and politically resonant allegation that Cecil’s final illness produced a foul bodily stench.
You say that Malefacit1 was dead:
Some wicked Spirit brake the thread
I sweare thou wert a witty divell,
To flie from such a stinking evill.
Source. Bodleian MS Tanner 299, fol. 12r
D13
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