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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

D. The Death of Robert Cecil (1612)

D1. Heere lies Hobbinoll our Shepheard while ere (html),   (pdf)

D2. Advance, advance my ill-disposed Muse (html),   (pdf)

D3. Ah was there nott a time when one man swayed (html),   (pdf)

D4. Heere lieth Robbin Crookt back, unjustly reckond (html),   (pdf)

D5. Two R:R:rs twoe Crookebacks of late ruled Englands helme (html),   (pdf)

D6. Robert E. of Salisburie. Libellous Anagram on Cecil (html),   (pdf)

D7. The old Cicilian fox (html),   (pdf)

D8. The divell now hath fetcht the Ape (html),   (pdf)

D9. This Taper, fedd, & nurst with court-oyle (html),   (pdf)

D10. He nowe is deade, from whome men fledd (html),   (pdf)

D11. Falshoods Jewell (html),   (pdf)

D12. O Ladies, ladies howle & cry (html),   (pdf)

D13. You say that Malefacit was dead: (html),   (pdf)

D14. Reader, if that desert may make the stay (html),   (pdf)

D15. Heere lyes interred wormes meate (html),   (pdf)

D16. Heere sleepes in the Lorde beepepperde with pox (html),   (pdf)

D17. Heere Robbin rousteth in his last neast (html),   (pdf)

D18. At Hattfeilde neere Hartforde there lyes in a coffin (html),   (pdf)

D19. Passer by know heere is interrd (html),   (pdf)

D20. Heere lyes Salisbury that little great comaunder (html),   (pdf)

D21. Heere lyes great Salisbury though little of Stature (html),   (pdf)

D22. Heere lyeth our great Lord Treasorer of late (html),   (pdf)

D23. You that reade passing by (html),   (pdf)

D24. If greatnes, wisedome, pollicie of state (html),   (pdf)

D25. Oh that such wisdome that could steere a state (html),   (pdf)

D26. When that rich soul of thine (now Sainted) kept (html),   (pdf)

D27. Ould Sarum now is dead Younge Salisburie lyves (html),   (pdf)