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Collection of poetry, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.43

Scope and Contents

Contains: (a) 'Come poetry, and with you bring along…' (song) by Abraham Cowley; (b) 'The history of Æneas and Dido's love, translated out of ye fourth booke of Virgill, by Mr Sydny Godolphin', beginning 'Meanwhile the queene fanning a secret fire…'; '(c) 'Dr Donne's Farewell to the world', beginning 'Farewell you gilded follyes, pleasing troubles ...' (printed in Walton's 'Compleat angler', 1653, and elsewhere, but not now attributed to Donne; Herbert Grierson, 1912, called the present manuscript 'a very inferior version'); (d) a final piece, unfinished, relating to 'the death of the Rev. Dr Raughleigh [Walter Raleigh, 1586-1646], who desiring leave to preach was murdered in prison by his keeper' (see Walker's 'Sufferings of the clergy' (1714), part II, p. 71). A flyleaf at the beginning bears an epigram beginning 'The divell was sicke ...'.

Dates

  • Creation: Seventeenth century

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 volume(s) (39 pages excluding blanks.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

The names of William Godolphin and Henry Savile appear on a flyleaf. In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Physical Description

Paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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