Record

Document Reference	Pw V 43/98 (pp 410-19)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'An Historicall Poem', unascribed; 1679
Date	1680 (c)
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 43.
Content Description	Text consists of 180 lines. Poem dated 1679 in this manuscript. The poem has been attributed to Marvell but the allusion to the death of Edmund Berry, which took place after Marvell's own death, makes this attribution unlikely.
Title Of Work	An Historicall Poem
First Line of Poem	Of a Tall Stature and of Sable hew
Last Line of Poem	How much more mischief when he is a King?
Language	English
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 43.
Related Material	Index, ELM II, MaA 169
	Crum, Index, O 21
	For other concordances see Index, ELM II, MaA 164-68 & MaA 170
Publication Note	The Fourth (and last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs etc. (London, 1689) ?
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol II (1965), pp 154-63