Notes. This poem’s ambivalence is shared by many other contemporary assessments of Ralegh and, like many of them, registers the positive impact of Ralegh’s scaffold performance.

Heere lyes the man whose death and life

Left in the world an endles strife

Twixt Shame & Honor, Hate & Love

Which of their Powers should greatest prove

In Rawleighs Name each had his turne

That in his life, this in his Urne.

Source. Doctor Williams’s Library MS Jones B.60, p. 274

Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 195

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