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The Death of the Boy King

some suspect foul play

By Rob AngeliPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
Portrait of Edward VI, Juvenile Tudor Autocrat

[Bedtime]

I think today is the day I die. So the son of Henry the Eighth will never grow up, yet I'm happy to die, already tiring so old with this Crown too heavy. I'm fifteen already neither speaking like a child nor thinking like a child not me: I can write and discourse in five languages am awfully good in maths and an expert in political economics. They say that I am Sick, but I fear that I am olding already hair falling skin peeling vomitting phlegm and Blood:

Sister, is this Poison?

[Bloody Mary tends well to matters.]

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sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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    Written by Rob Angeli