[Poems], [ca. 1680].

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[Poems], [ca. 1680].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174933

Manuscript on paper, in several professional scribal hands, of approximately 40 verse satires and a few prose pieces, most with topical political subjects. Poems represented include "The Club;" "Advice to Apollo;" "Upon the Late Prorogation;" "The Parliament House to Be Let;" "Marvell's Ghost;" "Sir E B Godfrey's Ghost;" "Bedow and Sutherland;" "Sapho and Phaeon;" "On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Picture;" "An Answer to a Satyr;" "The Character;" "Upon a Bowl of Punch;" "The Cheese;" "The Looking Glass;" and "Rochester's Farewell." Other works include satires on Charles II, Queen Catherine, and his mistresses the Duchess of Cleveland and the Duchess of Portsmouth; the Duke of Monmouth; "Ned" Howard; and Samuel Pepys. This section of the volume is followed by 7 verse and prose pieces in a different hand concerning the Nonjuror controversy that followed the Glorious Revolution. Pieces include "To a Painter. A Satyr" (attack on Albemarle, Sunderland, and other figures of William III's court); and "The Conscientious Nonjuror" (supposedly a speech by a heritor of Scotland to the Lords Council).

1 v. (ca. 200 p., some blanks) ; 20 x 18 cm.

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