[Collection of verse related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde], [ca. 1640-1680].engAlbum 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 affairsSome poems docketed by Ormonde; others by his private secretary, Sir George Lane.Spine label reads, in gilt: "Verses and Addresses."Binding: nineteenth-century calf.