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Document Reference	Pw V 47/9 (ff 20r-22r)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'Upon the Sicknesse of the ArchBishop of Cant: Feb: 14: 1688', not ascribed; n.d.
Date	1691 (c)
Level	Piece
Content Description	A full description of the volume in which this appears can be found under the reference Pw V 47.
Content Description	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 Work	Upon the Sicknesse of the ArchBishop of Cant. Feb: 14: 1688
First Line of Poem	How just is then the Tribute of our Eyes
Last Line of Poem	And bath with Tears (of Joy) each Bishops Herse
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	Crum, 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 Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 278-80

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA30714	Sancroft; William (1617-1693); Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop from 1678; imprisoned in Tower and tried for seditious libel 1688	1617-1693

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