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LOVE, THE KING'S FOOL OF THAT NAME
By J. PAYNE COLLIER.
In Rawlinson's Manuscripts in the Bodleian (c. 258.), which I take to have been written either in, or very soon after, the reign of Henry VIII., there is a poem thus entitled:— "THE EPITAPHE OF LOVE, THE KYNGE'S FOOLE." Can any of your readers furnish me with information regarding him? He was clearly a man worthy of notice, but although I have looked through as many volumes of that period, and afterwards, as I could procure, I do not recollect meeting with any other mention of him. Skelton, who must have been his contemporary, is silent regarding him; and John Heywood, who was also living at t…
Topics: Royal History, Literature, Historical Customs