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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 513
Title
MS poem, entitled 'My Lord All-Pride', by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; n.d.
Date
1670-1700
Extent
1 f
Level
Item/file
Access Conditions
Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance.
Content Description
A full description of the manuscript in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 512.
Poem consists of 30 lines.
'All-Pride' was the name given to John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave, later Duke of Buckingham (1648-1721)
Title Of Work
My Lord All-Pride
First Line of Poem
Bursting with Pride, the loath'd impostume swells
Last Line of Poem
This Knight o' th' Burning-Pestel, makes us sport
Language
English
Physical Description
Folio leaf
Descriptive Features
Countermark: Letters HWS, 12 x 56
Related Material
Index, ELM II, RoJ 199
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 40 p 37
Another copy of Pw V 513
Publication Note
J. Hayward, Collected Works of Rochester (Nonesuch; London, 1926) p 64
J. Wilmot, Broadside entitled 'A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common' (London, 1679)
Pinto, Poems of John Wilmot, pp xxiii, 115-16
Walker, The poems of John Wilmot, pp 116-17
'Epigram upon my Lord All-Pride' was published in the broadside.
Click the links below to view related name indexes
Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA28878
Sheffield; John (1647-1721); 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby; 3rd Earl of Mulgrave; Lord Chamberlain 1685-88
1647-1721
NA573
Wilmot; John (1647-1680); 2nd Earl of Rochester; poet
1647-1680
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