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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B19 Heer lye’s my Lord’s Grace at six & at seaven

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Notes. This is one of the four surviving libellous epitaphs on Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in November 1610.

“Epitaphs on Bishop Bancroft”

Heer lye’s my Lord’s Grace at six & at seaven1

And if I doe not lye his soule is in heaven

I wish with my heart it may bee to his Leeking2

Since all the World know’s it Was never his seeking


Source. BL MS Harley 3991, fol. 126r

Other known sources. Bodleian MS Ashmole 1463, p. 13; BL Add. MS 70454, fol. 21v

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1   at six & at seaven: in confusion. <back>

2   Leeking: i.e. liking. <back>

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