Margaret Demorest Sonnet Annotations: Sonnets 137 and 138

]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in February of 2024.

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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