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.
I22 If spite be pleasd, when that her object dead
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
5And strike the first two blind the other dombe.
Source. Bodleian MS Ashmole 781, p. 151
Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 196
I22
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