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Document ReferencePw V 47/9 (ff 20r-22r)
TitleMS poem, entitled 'Upon the Sicknesse of the ArchBishop of Cant: Feb: 14: 1688', not ascribed; n.d.
Date1691 (c)
LevelPiece
Content DescriptionA full description of the volume in which this appears can be found under the reference Pw V 47.
Text consists of 85 lines.

This is the main section of a poem entitled 'Marvell's Ghost'. POAS V suggests that the assertion this part was written in 1688 is only a device and not true.
Title Of WorkUpon the Sicknesse of the ArchBishop of Cant. Feb: 14: 1688
First Line of PoemHow just is then the Tribute of our Eyes
Last Line of PoemAnd bath with Tears (of Joy) each Bishops Herse
LanguageEnglish
Physical DescriptionFor 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 MaterialCrum, Index, H 1441
University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 46/32
University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 48/3
Other copies of the same MS.
Publication NotePoems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 278-80

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA30714Sancroft; William (1617-1693); Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop from 1678; imprisoned in Tower and tried for seditious libel 16881617-1693
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