Front | Explore: x3 'And graven with Diamondes in letters plain There is written her faier neck rounde abowte' (Thomas Wyatt's Whoso List to Hount) |
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Back | •'Diamondes' alone is a significant change from Petrarch's Sonnet 190 as he removed the 'topaz' that followed, which were symbolic for virginity •is this scandalous or because she is married? •The words are written around her neck => significant as she was beheaded, almost like Henry owned her both in life and death |
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