Record

Document Reference	Pw V 571
Title	MS satire, untitled, 'Six of the female sex & purest sect'; n.d.
Date	n.d.
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	Text consists of 16 lines only. According to Needham, the literary historian John Hayward ascribed this work to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) (see cover); however, the poem is not considered by modern scholars to be part of Rochester's canon.
First Line of Poem	Six of the female sex & purest sect
Last Line of Poem	for all likt handling well, but standing best
Language	English
Physical Description	One quarto
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Foolscap ending in monogram 4 with three rings (bottom half only), 65 x 60 mm
Watermark	Foolscap
Related Material	Crum, Index, S 779
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Douce f 5, f 19v
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f 6r
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 38/20
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	? Rump Songs II (London, 1662) pp 158-59
Publication Note	?POAS, ii