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.

I14 The Divell longe deceaved hath, Watt Raleighs wit with evell


Notes. This poem is one of a series of laudatory epitaphs on Ralegh, in a volume devoted to accounts of his life and death.


The Divell longe deceaved hath, Watt Raleighs wit with evell

yet at his death it seems to me, he hath deceavd the divell



Source. Folger MS V.a.418, fol. 5v

Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 191

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