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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 211
Title
MS poem, entitled 'Prologue', not ascribed; n.d.
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of 39 lines.
The printed version in 'Wit and Mirth' is entitled 'A Prologue by Sir John Falstaff'.
Title Of Work
Prologue
First Line of Poem
See Brittains, see one halfe before y<ou>r eyes
Last Line of Poem
Preserve Plump Jack, & banish all beside
Language
English
Physical Description
One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition
Fragile and torn
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Three Circles surmounted by crown, the top circle the Arms of Genoa, the middle circle contains letters GB, 85 x 40 mm
Mixed
Watermark
Circles, three
Related Material
Index, ELM III, PrM 526
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 44/83
University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note
T. D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy (London 1700) II, pp 313-14
Wright and Spears (edd.), The Literary Works of Matthew Prior (1959), vol 2, p 775
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