verses made of lambe
If heaven be pleased, when men leav do leave to synne
If hell be pleased, when it a soule Doth wyn
If earth be pleased, when it swallows vp a knave
Then all is pleased, nowe Lambe is in his grave
Calendared text from MS Ashmole 405, f. 349r (middle part of page)
Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE9112’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE9112, accessed 29 October 2026.