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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 575
Title
MS poem entitled 'The fable of ye pot and kettle'; n.d.
Date
n.d.
Extent
1 f
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of 31 lines.
Endorsed 'A Fable ye Brass Kettle & Earthen Pott'.
Ascribed to Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax in P. Dobell's Literture of the Restoration.
Title Of Work
The fable of ye pot and kettle
as twas told by Coll. T. ye night before he kist ye Kings hand.
First Line of Poem
As down ye Torrent of an Angry Flood
Last Line of Poem
For know that you are Clay and they are brasse
Language
English
Physical Description
One folio
Condition
Generally good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Arms of the City of London within large, ornate shield, and letters AJ under the shield, 110 x 75 mm
Watermark
Arms of London (ornate)
Related Material
Crum, Index, A 1483
Publication Note
A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Songs, Catches etc against Popery (London, 1689) p 18
Poems on Affairs of State, vol IV (1968), pp 233-4
Dobell, P., Literature of the Restoration (1918) p 82
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PersonName
Dates of existence
NA29197
Montague; Charles (1661-1715); 1st Earl of Halifax; cr. Baron 1700; cr. Earl 1714
1661-1715
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