Manuscript verse miscellany.

including: 'On the numerous access of the English to waite upon his Ma[jes]ti in Flanders' ("Hasten greate Prince unto the Brittish Isles...") by KATHERINE PHILIPS, ANDREW MARVELL's epigram on Thomas Blood's attempted theft of the Crown Jewels in Latin ("Bloodius, ut fundi damnum repararet aviti...") and English "Whilest valiant Blood, his Rents to have regaine'd..."), also with a second translation of Marvell's Latin by "Mr Freak of Wadham", AN EPITAPH ON MOLIERE in French (with an English translation ("Here lyes the fam'd Moliere, who was at strife..."), and other poems in English and French, in at least three hands, 12 pages, plus blanks, folio, c.1670s, original limp parchment wrappers retaining three parchment ties, tear to upper cover, covers creased

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An interesting and unrecorded collection of Restoration verse, including a number of apparently unknown poems. Many are occasional, such as 'On the Marriage of two Dwafes' and 'to Mr T.H. on his poem upon the Tragedy of Davids Teares', and includes poems written as early as 1660 (such as Katherine Philips's lyric on the Restoration), but most of the dateable poems are from the first half of the 1670s. The compiler evidently had an interest in French literature and court culture: alongside the epitaph on Moliere, there are epigrams on the Louvre and the poetic 'Dialogue D'Acante et de Pegase', later included in Dominique Bouhours, Pensées ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes (1689).