Content Description | Text consists of two verses, in 6 and 4 lines.
Endorsed 'Dorset on tyburn' [by the printer Jacob Tonson].
The poem was inspired by the brass statue by Grinling Gibbons of James II, set up in Pebble Court, off the Privy Garden, on New Year's Eve, 1686. (See Brice Harris, ed., The Poems of Charles Sackville..., 1979, p 57) |