Pleasure and Pain was printed during the latter stages of Somerset 's fall and shortly before his and Sir Ralph Fane 's executions .
It appears as less a bid for financial support than a plea for a changing of minds and policies .
Since Pleasure and Pain was printed during the latter stages of Somerset 's fall and shortly before his and Sir Ralph Fane 's executions , it appears as less a bid for financial support than a plea for a changing of minds and policies .