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SONNET 43
’43 = Mar. with Cath. Parr
43—issue of King’s Book: relig. position ordered
Elements appear at end. Identifying them is important. [The four elements—water, earth, air, and fire—were identified with the four humours in the human body—phlegm, black bile, blood, and yellow bile.]
’43 Mary crowned at Stirling Castle
’43 Treaty of Greenwich—Mary [Queen of Scots] to be wed to Edw.
Maybe this is a moon metaphor
Illusion more agreeable than truth about her

SONNET 44
’44 Mary restored to succession
(water) phlegm is cold + moist
(earth) black bile melancholy cold + dry
Mercury was insignia worn by Burleigh]]>

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SONNET 45
Glowing descrip. of Cecil by Ascham about now (’50) cfs. him to Pericles, in whom “all those 4 excellencies” desc. by Thycidides – p. 33 Beckingsale[?]
Fr. War ’45 – Battle at sea
Fr. galleys–Mary Rose sank–fleet ravaged with Eng. Keep Boulogne
Henry’s health worsening. Addr. Parl–relig dissension
Henry tests Catherine on doctrine about this time
Line 8
Melancholy: Melancthon is Wittenberg Prof.

SONNET 46
’46 June – Fr. war over; Eng. gets money from Fr. + keeps Scotl.
’46 – Anne Askew wracked and burnt (under Six Articles)
March ’46 – burning of Wisehart by Cardinal Bent on Revenge possibly contrived by Henry
Heart = Hertford (uncle of Edw)
Eye = John Dudley
Line 10
A quest: anagram Askew
Tenants to the heart: Seymour gains control
Line 13
Part: Cath. Parr?]]>

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SONNET 49
’49—Somerset, Cecil, Smith in Tower
’49—Act of Uniformity: requires new Prayer Book use
Eng scandal of E. and Seymour
Line 3
Sum: Somerset’s desertion of Seymour
Line 8
Gravity: Icarus + Ded. to S.[;] Seymo[ur] + Essex both are Icarus

SONNET 50
Overall Notes
50-51—relig. vacill. Somers[et]—Warwich[?] [illegible]
’50—Ridley begins campaign agst. altars (in London)
Lines 1-2: Could be kidnapping of Ed. by Somerset or could be S. in Tower or Edw. sep. from uncle
Line 5
Tired: towered
Line 14
Ward: Warwich now in chg. of ward Edward]]>

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Sonnet 5
Overall Notes:
’05 – Isabella dies
“till” = Sp. Castille
The frost – lease – show?
E’s speech 1585 q. Eccl.: They that fear the frost the snow will fall on them.
’06 – Joann[a] + Philip removed[?] as prisoners after shipdown to England[?] – Bacon Treaty of Windsor
Summer must be fair queen

Sonnet 6
Overall Notes:
6 – Perfect number assigned to Venus
’06 – Death of Philip after pact with Ferdinand. Henry considers Joanna as wife.

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Ragged: Henry
Line 2:
Distill’d: Joanna
Line 4:
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SONNET 51
Overall Notes
’51—Smithfield fires again (first since Henry’s death): 2 alien heretics
When does Jane marry Dudley son[?]? Sidney has sonnets about horseman
Oct. ’51—Norwich made Duke of Northumberland (overthr. Of Somerset)
Jan 22—’52 – Somerset exec.
Owen Tudor—clerk of wardrobe—mr. Cath. of Valois: Son, Edmond, Grandson, Henry Tudor
Line 2
Dull bearer: Bear=Leic[;] dull?=tutor Dee?
Speed: Dee
Line 4
Need: Dee

SONNET 52
Overall Notes
Raleigh was Capt. of the Guard
1552—exec. of Somerset
Line 10
Wardrobe; robe: Robert “Rob” + about robbing]]>

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SONNET 53
Overall Notes
Style here—a backing up—turning on self—
Spring may be April = Anne B.
6 July ’53: Edw. d; Mary on throne
10 July – Jane prod.[?] Q. by Northumb. group. Mary flees [illegible] + North[umberland] exec[uted]
’54 Birth of Sydney
Much Later—Pen. writes deris. letter to James—with Venus as code name for E (she learns of it)
“Truth” of identity in both sonnets here marriage of Mary + Phillip ’53
Line 2
Strange shadows: Mary is one shadow of E
Line 5
Counterfeit: both sexes here in comparison [Adonis (line 5) and Helen (line 7)] or perhaps: description of Adonis is only poor imitation of you

SONNET 54
Overall Notes
Check on his canker-bloom (perhaps it means flawed rose)
12 Feb. 16 yr. old Jane + Priest J[?] exec[uted]
E released from Tower May ’54
Untrue beauty dies unwoo’d but sweet beauty leaves sweet adown—his verse distill
Line 14
Distills: Philip? (Castile?)]]>

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SONNET 55
General Notes
1st Pros. [Protestant] martyr of new law allowing burn[ing] of heretics under Mary
70 persons that year burnt alive[,] Latimer + Ridley
Latimer—lighting such a candle as should never be put out. = Famous words
Line 1
Marble: Martyrs under Mary
Line 2
Mars: Martyrs under Mary
Line 14
Eyes: Celeb. Of E.?

SONNET 56
General Notes
54-55 Mary persuades herself of her own pregnan. – Apr. announcement + bell ringing
’56 Plot abroad to put E + Courtenay on throne but country now protective of E
1556—Phil. (heir to thr.) becomes P. II + King of Spain (father abdicates)[.] Leaves M. in Eng.
Line 1-2: Love dist[inct] from appetite]]>

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SONNET 57
General Notes
Pole chgd. by Pope with heresy
Pope Paul IV – bellicose
Excom. Philip—K. of Sp.
Mar[?] [illegible] Eng. + Fr. by midsummer ’57
Philip came in spring [of 1557], left July (forever)
Mary died in 1558
Line 5
World-without-end hour: =succession question under Mary’s death

SONNET 58
General Notes
’58-Mary (Sc) weds Dauphin
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SONNET 59
General Notes
1559 Henry II orders heresy stamped out in Scotl
1571 Anjou professes devotion to “the rarest creature that was in Europe these 500 years”
1559-500=1059 (King Arthur?)
Mathilda—only female ruler [Matilda lived from 1102-1167, and was the wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou. After her brother’s death, she was heir to the throne of England, but was unpopular and therefore never crowned.]
Mary of Guise dies + Treaty of Edinburgh
Lines 5-8: How do you compare with other great ones of the past?
Line 12
Revolution: ’59—Revolt in Scotland: John Knox
Be the same: Semper Eadem (theme of this sonnet) [Semper Eadem, meaning “always the same,” was the motto of Anne Boleyn, primarily known because it was also used by her daughter Elizabeth. It was at some point adopted by Leicester as well.]

SONNET 60
General Notes
Sc[otland] abolishes Cath[olicism]
1560—Amy[?] Robert’s death + scandal
1559-60—Jasper Haywood transl. Seneca’s Tragedies
Death of May of Guise—June 10—1560
60—Hertford + Cath. Gray secretly marry
Time’s cruel hand is not only in future, but showing, presently, her [Elizabeth’s] defects[.] Yet he praises.]]>

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SONNET 61
Is Bacon the watchman?
1561 O’Neill’s rebellion
Burleigh is spy?

SONNET 62
General Notes
’62—Duke of Guise murdered (in Feb) by Huguenot – (check on identity here + next page)
After Essex death, sec[retary] reports E. cries as she catches glimpse of self in mirror
Dudley bro[ugh]t into Council[.] Also Tho. Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Could Guise be “outward” or “mask”?
Cath. Parr had written Pros. [Protestant] tract – Lamentations of a Sinner
She[?] asked Council to make Dudley Protector of the realm with 20,000 per year—when ill and thought see[?] dying
Line 1
Sin: Scandals in ’62]]>

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