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