[Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174177

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing extracts from philosophical, religious, and historical works; sermons; and numerous verses, both philosophical and satirical. The volume contains extracts from Thomas Aquinas; Fuller's History of the Holy War; Livy's History; Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England; Jeremy Taylor's Exercises of Holy Living; and Reynold's God's Revenge Against Murder. Satirical verses include a copy of Thomas Randolph "Salting," which satirizes Randolph's contemporaries under the figure of dishes at a feast, as well as A Poet's Farewell To His Threadbare Cloake. The volume also contains such contemplative poems as Musarum Lachrymae; Ruines of Time; and Mr. Austin's Sepulcrum Domus Mea Est; and a list of English words and their Latin translations.

1 v. (264 p.) ; 10 x 16 cm.

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