- Published / Created:
- [mid 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b205
- Image Count:
- 108
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- F. 23r digitized at high resolution. and Manuscript, in various hands, of a collection of several hundred primarily lighthearted or satirical poems on the subject of women and love. In addition to such titles as On a maidenhead; Choice of mistress; How to chose a wife; A hater of women; and On a blacke wench, the manuscript includes six anagrammatic poems on the names of six women under the title The virgin knott of honor, written by Francis Lenton and presented to the Earl of Dorset; and Shakespeare's second sonnet (f. 54v). The collection also contains numerous songs, including On a freind's absence and A parallel betwixt bowling and preferment; as well as a substantial number of poems on death, such as On the death of a twinne; On a death's head thought to be a virgins when twas taken out of the grave; Upon the death of Sir William Candish; and On one that died of the small pox. Dos-a-dos, the manuscript contains enigmas and epigrams.
- Description:
- Foliation is sequential although book
- Subject (Name):
- Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676--Poetry and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Enigmas, Epigrams, English, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
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- Creator:
- Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, collector
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb66
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A collection of copies of about 36 English poems, in various hands, many of them satirical and bawdy. Political and social satires include Thomas Brown's Melting Downe The Plate, Or The Pisspotts Farewell; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's Satire Against Reason and Mankind; and an excerpt from Samuel Butler's Hudibras. The volume also contains several sexually explicit satires against women, as well as numerous serious poems, which include an excerpt from Contention Of Ajax And Ulysses by James Shirley, attributed in the manuscript to the Earl of Orrery; an excerpted description of heaven from Abraham Cowley's Davideis; and John Denham's Cooper's Hill.
- Description:
- Binding: enfolded by a paper cover., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and The piece titled "A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery" is accompanied by a letter signed "Thomas Style" and addressed to "Signor Lorenzo Magallotti."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704, Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680--Hudibras, Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, and Shirley, James, 1596-1666
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Political poetry, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poesie Inglesi