17th Century Verse No. 2
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, unbound. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 206: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
17th Century Verse No. 8
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue of two Zealottes concerninge &c in ye oath’, here beginning ‘Sr Roger from a peice of zealous freese’, on both sides of a folio leaf, unbound. c.1640s.
ClJ 32: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
PR 2420 1647Q
A printed and partly marked up exemplum of Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘Edward Goldesbrough of Lincoln's Inn Esqr’ and ‘James Webb’.
Discussed in James P. O'Donnell, ‘Some Beaumont and Fletcher Prompt Annotations’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 334-7.
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• B&F 167.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate
Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.
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• B&F 76.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject
Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.
Facsimile of p. 27 in O'Donnell.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 1-114. Bullen, III, 221-356, ed. J. Masefield. Bowers, V, 157-260, ed. Fredson Bowers.
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• B&F 190.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A Wife for a Month
Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bowers, VI, 367-452.
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Autograph letter signed, to William Duncombe, from ‘Shanville near Chelnsford’, 5 December 1734. 1734.
*SuT 8: Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)
Edited in Jrdan & love, II, 449-50.