This letter, written by a friend of ours, Contains his death, yet bids them save his life: [He reads] ‘Edwardum occidere nolite timere, bonum est, Fear not to kill the King, ’tis good he die.’ But read it thus, and that’s another sense: 10 ‘Edwardum occidere nolite, timere bonum est, Kill not the King, ’tis good to fear the worst.’
The ambiguous death sentence
