Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
Described in The Carl H. Pforzheimer library, English literature 1475-1700, vol. 2, p. 505-506, no. 501., Imperfect: several errors in pagination., and In case 28 cm. Second issue, with canceled title page.
Subject (Topic):
Church and state in Great Britain and Church polity
Imperfect: separate title page ("Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost ... By P.H.") wanting. Bound with his: Poems upon several occasions, London, 1695. Paradise regain'd. London. 1715. and The "explanatory notes" by Patrick Hume have separate title page ("Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost by P.H.") and separate paging.
The serio-jocular medley in verse and prose : some very good, some pretty tolerable, and other
Image Count:
8
Alternative Title:
A discourse against purgatory, A French gentleman, dining with some company on a fast day ..., An appendix to the Discourse on purgatory, Hom. Il. I, It having been asserted by Misokuon in this our Medley..., Mr. Brice, Your allowing vacancy ..., The lover's auction, and Verses wrote extempore in a lady's prayer-book
Collection Created:
Exon : Printed by Andrew Brice, in the years 1734 and 1735