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.
Mii7 Within this sty heer now doth ly
Notes. Though it assumes the form of an epitaph, this poem was written during Bacon’s life. An unpublished section of Sir Simonds D’Ewes’s Autobiography records that a more pointed variant (“Within this sty a hog doth ly,/ That must be hang’d for sodomy”) was left on a sheet of paper within Bacon’s residence, York House (BL Add. MS 47128, fol 63r; BL MS Harley 646, fol. 59r-v).
“Upon Sir F. Ba.”
Within this sty heer now doth ly
A hog wel fed with bribery
A pig, a hog, a boare, a bacon
Whom God hath left, and the Divel taken
Source. Folger MS V.a.345, p. 25
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Douce f.5, fol. 16r
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