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Document Reference	Pw V 197
Title	MS poem, entitled 'The 5 sensses', not ascribed; n.d.
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 80 lines. Also known by the title 'For the Kinge', this satire is a parody on Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Ben Jonson's masque 'Gypsies Metamorphosed'. The poem is printed in L.E. Kastner's edition of The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, 2 vols (Edinburgh & London, 1913) among his poems of doubtful authenticity (vol II pp 269-99); however according to Peter Beal 'its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond and it can be safetly rejected from the canon' (Index, I, p 18).
Title Of Work	The 5 sensses
First Line of Poem	Seeinge/ ffrom such a face whose excellence
Last Line of Poem	Heauen blesse my Sov<er>aigne & his sences
Language	English
Physical Description	Half folio
Condition	Fragile
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Grapes (fragment), 20 x 10 mm Secretary
Watermark	Grapes
Related Material	Crum, Index, F 751
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 198
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 37/258
Publication Note	L.E. Kastner (ed.), The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden (Edingburgh and London, 1913) vol II, pp 296-99
	C.F. Main, 'Ben Jonson and an unknown poet on the King's Senses', Modern Language Notes, vol 74 (1959) pp 389-93
	R.H. MacDonald, 'Amendments to L. E. Kastners Edition of Drummond's Poems', Studies in Scottish Literature, vol 7 (1969) pp 102-22 at p 118

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA73025	Jonson; Benjamin (c.1573-1637); Mr; dramatist and poet	c.1573-1637
NA74313	Drummond; William (1585-1649); Mr; of Hawthornden	1585-1649

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