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Document Reference	Pw V 340
Title	MS poem, entitled 'In Memory of Mrs Elisabeth Corbett', by Alexander Pope; n.d. [post 1725]
Date	1725 post
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 10 lines. Note following title identifies Mrs Corbett and the order for 'this Monument to be erected'. Epitaph to Elizabeth Corbett inscribed on a monument in St Margaret's Westminster, erected by her mother Mildred Cecill; she died of cancer in her breast.
Title Of Work	In Memory of Mrs Elisabeth Corbett who departed this Life at Paris, March ye 1st 1724, after a long and painful Sickness
First Line of Poem	Here rests a Woman good without Pretence
Last Line of Poem	The Saint sustain'd it, but the Woman dy'd
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within ornate crowned shield and insignia 4WR under the shield, 115 x 54 mm
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
Related Material	Index, ELM III, PoA 141
Related Material	For other concordances see Index, ELM, III, pt. 3, p 37 amd PoA 140
Publication Note	Miscellaneous Poems By Several Hands (London, 1730)
Publication Note	Ault and Butt (eds), The Poems of Alexander Pope (1954) vi, p 322.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74510	Corbett; Elizabeth (-1724); Miss; dau. of Sir Uvedale Corbett of Longnor Shropshire and Lady Mildred Cecil	-1724
NA1123	Pope; Alexander (1688-1744); poet	1688-1744

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