16th-century erotic poem found inside book

Started by NewsCaster, Dec 15, 2011, 05:02 AM

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Nearly 450 years ago, when England was tearing itself apart over religion, a Catholic woman named Lady Elizabeth Dacre wrote an elegant but at times erotic Latin love poem to Sir Anthony Cooke, a Protestant and tutor to King Edward VI, the successor of Henry VIII.

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