Record

Document Reference	Pw V 47/76 (ff 102v-103r)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'On the French King', by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; n.d.
Date	1695-1699
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 47.
Content Description	Text consists of six 4-line verses. The poem is a paraphrase on Madam Maintenon's advice to Louis XIV who assumed command in person of the new Marshall de Boufflers' army in Flanders at the height of his struggle with William III.
Title Of Work	On the French King
First Line of Poem	In Gray hair'd Caelia's wither'd Arms
Last Line of Poem	Te deum sing in quiet
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 47.
Related Material	Index, ELM II, DoC 120
	Crum, Index, I 1341
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 46/87
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 617
	For other concordances see Index, ELM II, DoC 114-18 and DoC 122
Publication Note	Examen Poeticum (London, 1693)
	Harris (ed.), Poems of Charles Sackville Sixth Earl of Dorset (1979) pp 173-5
	P. Legouis, 'The Original of Dorset's Lampoon on Madame de Maintenon', MLR, 54 (1959) pp 66-68