Miscellany, compiled ca. 1600-ca. 1652.

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Miscellany, compiled ca. 1600-ca. 1652.

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Contents include poems attributed to Samuel Ward, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey, Hoccleve, several on the Spanish Armada, and an epitaph on Philip Sidney; maxims; proverbs; notes on Turkish customs, Venice and historical occurrences; quotations from and comments on classical authors, the Fathers and leaders of the Reformation; a reference to Chaucer (p. 119); A compendious and profitable way of studying (p. 86); My Lord treasurer his ten commandments [to his son Robert], whose text resembles that of X.d.212 but varies from the 1636 edition of Burghley's Precepts (p. 12); Mr John Bruen's reasons for detesting gaming, which vary slightly from those set forth in William Hinde's A faithful remonstrance of the holy life ... of John Bruen ... 1641, p. 121, (p. 167).

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