[Poetical commonplace book], 1634-1640.

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[Poetical commonplace book], 1634-1640.

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Manuscript on paper, in a single italic hand, of about 63 poems and songs primarily on love, but also a containing a few satirical entries on religious and political subjects, as well as some occasional verse, including one On the Death of my Lord Francis Villiers and another Upon The Funerall of Mrs Pawleys Daughter. Other entries include a poem about "the purified sect" which encourages them "to goe to new England, To build new babels, strong and sure ... So shall our church cleansd and made pure, Keep both it self and state secure"; and a song called The Roundheads Race. The volume also includes Robert Ayton's Upon A Diamond Cut In Form Of A Heart; John Donne's Thou Art Not Faire, For All Thy Redd And White; and John Grange's Since All Men That I Come Among.

1 v. (108 p.) ; 20 x 16 cm.

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Aston, Herbert, 1614-

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Ayton, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638

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Donne, John, 1572-1631

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Proposed for publication as part of the Percy Society series. From the description of The Songs and sonnets of Dr. John Donne : with critical notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge / edited by Barron Field, Esq. : manuscript, [ca. 1840] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868820 Herbert Grierson attached great importance to the manuscript and presumed the writer to be an acquaintance of Donne. From the description of Poems and paradoxes : manuscript, ...