Commonplace book, [ca. 1660].

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Commonplace book, [ca. 1660].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316960

A mixture of poetry and prose, compiled from many contemporary sources, with a wealth of epigrams and epitaphs. The manuscript is written on 108 pages in one hand, with short poems and quotations added laterally in the margins of many pages. From the fact that there appear several quotations from Wharton's almanacs of 1656 and 1657, it would seem that the book was compiled a short time after that. Many of the epigrams and epitaphs were copied, according to notes by the compiler, from manuscript books of friends named Hilton and Lee, and from the miscellanies, Wits Recreations and Wit and Drollery. Some of the poems are merely fragments of longer pieces, others are full texts. Among those identified are some by Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Thomas Randolph, and John Cleveland. The prose, like the verse, consists of mere quotations as well as longer passages and full letters. There are copies of letters by Sir Henry Wotton and by Cleveland.

1 v. (108 p.) ; 21 cm.

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