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H8 The Sommers sun is sett

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Notes. This poem is either a revision of a non-political verse, or else an attempt to make that verse more blatant. The more oblique lines (albeit transcribed in a series of poems on Carr and Howard) read: “Our Somer Sun is sett / and winter is come on / The Robin Redbreast leaves to chirpe / because his voice is gone” (Bodleian MS Rawl. D 1048). The poem is briefly discussed by Bellany (Politics 166).

The Sommers sun is sett

And will shyne out noe more

This sommersett did gett

By marryeing of an whore.1


Source. Bodleian MS Rawl. Poet. 26, fol. 17v

Other known sources. Cort verhael van het grouwelick (Dutch translation) B3v; Bodleian MS Rawl. D. 1048, fol. 64v; BL MS Sloane 1489, fol. 9v

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1   whore: i.e. Frances Howard. <back>

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