Margaret Demorest Sonnet Annotations: Sonnets 137 and 138
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SONNET 137 1597 – Parl (Oct) – Fr. Bacon spoke strongly on enclosures: Intro, 2 bills passed, Famine prompted St calls Mary the anchor of Papists Wyatt: “Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever, / Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more– (ends)...Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb[.”] includes “liberty is lever” Prob fight over enclosure Plot is laid for my life? Letters forged acc to Essex
SONNET 138 Nothing here says she is young Could be Bacon spkg Raleigh has poem Hist which says, Death cover over all great + pride, cruelty _ ambition of men with 2 narrow words– “His jacet” [Quotation from Walter Raleigh’s “The History of the World: In Five Books.” “Hic jacet” is Latin for “here lies,” and was often inscribed on gravestones.] The Truth: Recog + accept. of false]]>
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SONNET 1 Overall notes Sid – Arcadia [illegible] has 17 sonnets (9 are Eng. Form) Henry VII on throne – Marriage Arthur + Cath. Of Aragon Tudor symbol A Rose – maybe Raleigh? 1501 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Cath. of Aragon – Nov. (See line 3) 1600 – Bruns burned [illegible] Rome Henry Tudor was Earl of Richm. Eyes here can be her attach. to Leic., preventing royal marriage What if Fair = Fr = Francis? Spring may mean Spain Theme of whole: Categories Is she to be the matron’s “tender” in marriage trade? Line 1 Increase: Marriage—family but not love “desired” Line 3 Decease: Cecil? Line 4 Bear: May be marriage with Leicester Line 10 Spring: Spain? Line 11 Buriest: Bear = leicester [sic] symbol Line 12 Waste in niggarding: denigrate[;] negromantike?[?]
SONNET 2 Overall Notes Fair is part of title of [illegible] Baron Ferrers Death of Arthur; Henry becomes successor Mary Stuart born in 42 Jane suggests council speakers in this group but I’m inclined to think (perhaps) – over period of years – advice urying [sic] (quote Ransom) Arthur’s death possibly from corruption ’99 – Sir [illegible] probable host to [illegible] – More + he [illegible] – Henry, age 9 – encountered by them, (N born in ’91— Duke of York = Henry Mary Tudor m. to James IV of Scotl. He much older than she (she is 15) ([illegible] of James I, Engl) Maybe “best” is Bess ’02 Catherine’s tutor + confessor sent back home (Alessandra Gualdina[?]) 1601 1561 40 winters (from time of Bacon’s birth) Could I’s be J’s for James = House of St.? Line 1 Forty winters: prophecy: Scotland – winters Line 4 Weed: widow’s (Cath) Line 7 Eyes: Leic? Line 13 When thou art old: She’d be 65 after 40 years on throne Art: Stuart? 15 + 25 Catherine Howard will see her blood]]>https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]>The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.
SONNET 101
Hugh = color ’91–Hugh O’Donnell escapes from Eng. + begins war (Irish) Late 1397 (p. 203, Lacey) Vere = Truth, To Eliz, He defended Essex in Azores trouble against Raleigh War of Theatres begins 1601 (Exec. of Essex connected?) 1601 John Sh[akespeare?] dies Truth is enough: celebration renewed Line 2 Dy’d: pan: Exec. of Essex
Line 13 How: Howard?
SONNET 102 D marriage in Dec – possibly memb of Parl. in Oct (dissolved in Dec). Carr becomes Somerset but I don’t know when (was Cecil, first?) Summer must be James I believe Ral. was a nightingale (night?)]]>
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SONNET 103 ’94–Philip sends money to aid the Hughs (of Ireland) 1603–O’Neill surrenders[;] Mountjoy (Blount) has victory (End of Cath[olicism]; contest for Ireland_ 1903 Plague stops players Reopen in 1604 Apr. Mary placed infant James in custody of Earl of Mar. – March 1567 Essex angry at E’s refusal to appt. Bl.-- what year? Blunt exec. with Essex 1601 other Blunt took over comm. in Irel. Also–it was Earl of Mar who was Sc. repr.--arrived to find Essex dead.--Neyst[?] with Cecil, ’01 End of mirror (with end of Eliz.)
SONNET 104 Perhaps annual sequence ended at 1603? Tris[?] 1592 Essex + 2 Bacons ’04 Dec appeals to J. in vain for help against charges of conjuring. Line 6: Lear now: Cordelia tries to aid father]]>
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SONNET 105 E. assumed pose of “earthly idol” near end of her reign About 1603 Bacon writes Valerius Terminus in which he makes first mention of the 4 classes of idols afterwards descr. in Novium Organdum ’20 Could this be against Essex retort to K[illegible] to rep. of quartering during night of [illegible]? 1604–authorized King James Version Bible Chains last used against Wyat again strung to resist invasion of Armada–London Line 1: Interesting bc cf. this with Jonson’s tribute to him [Shakespeare] after his death Line 14: Trinity[;] maybe: Eng Scotl Irel
SONNET 106 Constance–1st child of Donne (1603?) ’06 Bacon marries Alice Birnham 05–what is Bacon–Veralum? Just before Armada: Merlin? (old marble at Glastonbury)--words warn of destr. when Pendragon’s seed (like Pegronientarus[?] word[?] but earlier) Time not king now + has “wasted” her (Strong evidence that two are the same) Fair + dark becomes “dark, cruel, + unfaithful” in 2nd unit Line 3: Making beautiful old rhyme: Bible Line 7: Express’d: Essex[;] Young Essex marries Frances Howard Line 8 You master now: Master of England Line 10 Prefiguring: mortal Line 11: Divining: Bible Line 14 Eyes: Leicester (in command of kingdom’s defenses at time of Armanda)]]>
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SONNET 107 Saturn, Jupiter + Mars in eclipse of sun–Feb 2 total eclipses of moon: March + Augh. Balm in Venus + Adonis is sweating palm of Ad. adrn. By Venus as “balm” ’07–Death of Penelope = Stella Founding of Jamestown Lady Southampton (Harvey) dies 1607
SONNET 108 [Illegible] or Marlowe or Kyd = Queen’s “sweet boy” 1604 – Robt Jones proven on[?] death for page of Lady South Possibly E. dies here + portions that follow are written later than Dark Lady series Suggest clue to new method of numbering paralleling – what sources?]]>
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SONNET 109 1609–12 books of Iliad transl by Chapman publ 1609–Sir Geo. Summers shipwrecked in Bermudas Penelope + Ulysses: home fits Penelope stone theory ’09 Pericles printed Reconciliation for Essex + Raleigh? (Date = ?) Begin series of explanation poems–accounting for distance + return culminating 115-116 Rose theatre–Lord Admiral’s Men play there in 1594
SONNET 110 Series seems to be parallel to 1599-60–etc. Lord Strange died myst (poison?) in 1594 ’90-’91–James involved in witch trials; suspects Bothwell of using evil powers agst him Fr. statesman Sully described James as “wisest fool in Christendom” Thomas Cecil called a clown in bedside (but he dis. with Cecil on protl.[?]) Or does he give up on even leaving his love for her? Appalled + disapproving he still loves 1608 = Cupid’s Revenge, by Be[aumont] + Fletcher]]>
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Sonnet 11 General Notes: (11) (a) Prince of Wales [illegible] lives 7 wks Tho. More was estate of Nalsey[?] Sir Thomas Egerton is keeper of the gov. seal of Eng.
Line 7 Cease: Cecil? Line 13 Seal: of state (authorizes) written records
Sonnet 12 Overall Notes ’12 Naval incident – loss by fire of ships that were fighting – caused Henry to improve gun positions ’52 Somerset executed by Northumberland ’12 Birth of James V?
Line 1 Count: (pun) Compton courted/married gentlew. Anne Line 3 Violet past prime: Symbol of faithfulness]]>https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]>The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.
SONNET 111 Forbes theatre opened 1600 Cup of Christ on cross? 1591? Is “dye” a pun = live + die Attempt at reconciliation with Cecil? Eysell is almost like early form of word “Cecil” Line 1 For my sake: Illness sequence
SONNET 112 Could be Catherine of Henry–despairing hr poor[?] from her poverty Black adder exec. for murder of Darnley–1567(?) ’91 James, pursuing Bothwell, nearly drowns as horse falls into waters of Tyne Essex decapitated on Green]]>
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SONNET 113 1613(!)--festivities of marriage of Princess Eliz. included fireworks: some were hunting hounds pursuing a hart–Also a great sea battle was staged–Christians against Turks, with “divers… maymed and hurt” and “one lost both his eyes.” The next stanza 114–includes “Palate” as if referring to the groom[?]--from the Palestine[?] Line 5 Form: foreign Heart: Cath. Parr? Line 10 Deformed’st: Poem by E. on deformed
SONNET 114 In 1614 the poisoning of Lord Overbury takes place Bibl. Echo in “doth prepare the cup[”] (Last Supper?) Is this period of writing against Jesuit and Catholicism at James’ order? About ’35–Mary fearful of poison. Her ill-suspicions possibly center of plot–[illegible] marry Pole–[illegible] war. Anne’s alchemy feared– In 1614 Overbury was poisoned by Lady Essex + Somerset–D. used as lawyer]]>