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Document Reference	Pw V 531
Title	MS poem entitled 'The South Sea Whim'; n.d.
Date	n.d.
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of eight 6-line verses plus refrain. Glosses that the poem should be sung 'To the tune of - All you Ladys now at hand'. Endorsed by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford 'Song 1711 Octo<be>r Libel on South Sea Act sent by D: Marlbourough to her friends'.
Title Of Work	The South Sea Whim
First Line of Poem	To you fair Traders now ashore
Last Line of Poem	And heave the Rogues into the Sea
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Letters HIB, approx. 13 x 56 mm
Publication Note	A Pill to Purge State Melancholy (London, 1716, 3rd ed.) pp 93-95

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA18706	Churchill; Sarah (1660-1744); Duchess of Marlborough; née Jennings; dau of Richard Jennings of Sandridge; m John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough 1678	1660-1744

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