Notes. This poem’s depiction of Ralegh’s destruction as a cause solely for the satisfaction of spite, malice and envy, implicitly challenges the official justification for Ralegh’s execution.

“Annother on his Death”

If spite be pleasd, when that her object dead

or mallice pleasd when it hath bruisd the head

or envie pleasd when it hath what it would

Then all her pleasd for Raleighs blood is coold

Which were it warme & active would orecome

And strike the first two blind the other dombe.

Source. Bodleian MS Ashmole 781, p. 151

Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 196

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