[Collection of verse related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde], [ca. 1640-1680].

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Title: [Collection of verse related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde], [ca. 1640-1680].
Abstract: Album containing a collection of manuscript verse that belonged to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (1610-88). The volume includes English and Latin panegyrics of Ormonde and on his role as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; epigrams and elegies; Royalist political satires such as Dorset's "Clarendon had law and sense", Thomas Cobbes's "A poeme upon Cromwell', and Waller's "To His Majesty Upon his Motto, 'Beati Pacifici'"; a poem by Denham; translations from the Greek and Latin, and acrostic poems in English and Latin. Several comment on contemporary Irish affairs
Description: Some poems docketed by Ormonde; others by his private secretary, Sir George Lane.
Spine label reads, in gilt: "Verses and Addresses."
Binding: nineteenth-century calf.
Provenance: Purchased from Julian Browning on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2004.
Extent: 1 34 x 22 cm. v. (120 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Ireland
Subject (Name): Cobbes, Thomas.
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.
Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 1638-1696.
Lane, George, Sir.
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
Subject (Topic): English poetry
Political satire, English
Verse satire, English
Politics and government
History
Subjects: Cobbes, Thomas
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669
Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 1638-1696
Lane, George, Sir
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700
Political satire, English > 17th century
Verse satire, English
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1688
Ireland > History > 1660-1688

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Citation: Collection of Verse Related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.