Record

Document Reference	Pw V 326
Title	MS extract from Motteux's play 'Love's a Jest'; n.d. [post 1696]
Date	n.d. [post 1696]
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of three 8-line verses from Motteux's first play 'Love's a Jest', a comedy from the Italian produced in 1696 in Little Lincolns Inn Fields by his Majesties Servants.
First Line of Poem	Slaves to London, I'll deceive You
Last Line of Poem	London is ye milder Curse
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio Physical match: Pw V 318 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 319 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 320 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 321 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 322 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 323 (dimensions, script) Physical match: Pw V 324 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 325 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 327 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 328 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 329 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 330 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 331 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 332 (dimensions, script)
Condition	Generally good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Letter E, 10 x 7 mm Italic
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	Love's a Jest (London, 1696) p 2
	Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy (London, 1707) pp 194-95
	Van Lennep (ed.), The London Stage, I '1660-1700', pp 462-63