At end of docket title: To be heard before the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council, at the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, on the [blank] of March, 173[ ]., Caption title., Docket title same as caption title., Signed: J. Willes, D. Ryder., and The appellant's case was to be heard on March 27, 1734.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Name):
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761 and William, Rowland, d. 1718--Estate
Contents: [1] Beeing in passion, he writes a farewell to his hopes and successe in loue (First line: Dead are my hopes, which could not be releeued) / Ess. -- [2] Upon better aduise, he writeth an answere to the same (First line: Hopes are not dead, but sleepe, by beautie charmed) / Ess. --[3] Beeing wearie of life, in regard of his loues losse, he wrote as followeth (First line: Leave now deare life the prison of my minde) / Ess. -- [4] An answere imagined on his loues behalfe (First line: Leaue not your life, which libertie may finde / Ess. -- [5] His conclusion vpon both the former (First line: In such a life, no freedome can be found) / Ess. -- [6] To his fairest mistresse (First line: More then most fair, full of the louely fire) / H.W.S. -- [7] Of the fauour of the gods vnto men (First line: Oft haue I heard of stories long agoe) / S.P.S. -- [8] He writes a sonnet vpon his owne poe¨sie, vnder his armes (First line: Virtutis comes inuidia) / Ess. -- [9] As desirous to be his mystresses painter (First line: All things on earth, her fairenes farre excelles) / S.P.S. -- [10] Concering his suite and attendance at the court (First line: Most miserable man, whom wretched fate) / Edm. Spencer -- [11] The poore labouring bee (First line: It was a time, when sillie bees could speake).
Description:
An extract (gathering B4) from an unrecorded Elizabethan poetry collection entitled "The muses garland."