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- Call Number:
- Osborn b90
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 3
- Alternative Title:
- Grub 229, Grub 255, On ye reading K G's speech 1733, The Drs answer to ye Dutch memorial ..., The new health, The thanksgiving, and Whigg's ye first letter of his name
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714 and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Political poetry, English and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph on Mrs. Dolben (?)
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb142
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- book
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1688-1689].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb108
- Collection Title:
- [Restoration poems], [ca. 1688-1689].
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in various hands, of a collection of 72 satirical verses and songs, primarily commenting on events and political and literary figures in 1688-89. A poem titled The Invasion declares, "O! The year 88 that shall in story be prais'd, for a Parliament sunk, and Six Regiments rais'd;" another is mockingly addressed "For her Royall Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark on the Birth of the Duke at Gloster sung att Hampton Court." A Satyr On The Poets mocks such poets as Wycherley and Shadwell; other items include A Satyr on The Most Eminent Court Ninnys; Advice To The Test-Holders; On The Speakeing Wooden Head; The Lovers Session; New Letter to Julian; A Poem On Matrimony by Sir Charles Sedley; and The Puritans Lecture by Abraham Cowley.
- Description:
- Binding: no covers., Index, in another hand, at beginning of manuscript, which lists many more items than appear in the collection., and This collection was evidently made in London for a gentleman resident with Sir George Strode (1583-1633) in Dorset, the individual poems being sent down separately as they were acquired; several have postmarks.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Anne,--Queen of Great Britain,--1665-1714, Cowley, Abraham,--1618-1667, Grafton, Henry Fitz Roy,--Duke of,--1663-1690, Great Britain.--Parliament, Heveningham, Henry, Sedley, Charles,--Sir,--1639?-1701, Shadwell, Thomas,--1642?-1692, William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702, and Wycherley, William,--1640-1716
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Religious satire, English, Satirical verse, English, and Songs, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Englishman
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1652]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b200
- Image Count:
- 183
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 226 primarily secular verses and songs. Entries include William Strode’s Uppon An Infant Unborne Whose mother Dyed in Travell; Walton Poole’s On A Gentlewoman with Black Eyes; and An Epitaph Uppon One, Drowned in the Snowe. The volume also contains satirical epigrams such as On A Creditor; An Epitaph on a Lascivious Woman; and An Epitaph on a Bastard; a series of prologues and epilogues taken from plays by William Cartwright; and several political entries, including A Declaration of the Commons Howse of Parliament in Ireland, 1640; The Copy of A Lettre Sent From the Rebells in Scotland to the King of France, Desiring his Protection; and A Dialogue Betweene Two Zelotts Concerning the New Oath. and P. [173] digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- . On spine: "Common place book."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1649 and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, and Strode, William, d 1600 or 1601-1645
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Religious poetry, English, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]