Record

Document Reference	Pw V 617
Title	MS song entitled 'Upon the French Kings returne out of Flanders to France'; n.d. [late 17th century]
Date	1675-1699
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of seven 4-line verses. The poem is a paraphrase on Madam Maintenon's advice to Louis XIV who assumed command in person of the new Marshall de Boufflers' army in Flanders at the height of his struggle with William III. Beal dates this copy to the late 17th century (see Index, II, DoC 121).
Title Of Work	Upon the French Kings returne out of Flanders to France
First Line of Poem	In Grey hair'd Celias's withered Arms
Last Line of Poem	I gott him as surely as Lewis gott you
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio leaf
Condition	Generally good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Letters PG, 11 x 24 mm
Related Material	Index, ELM II, DoC 121
	Crum, Index, I 1341
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 47/76
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 46/87
	For other concordances see Index, ELM, II, DoC 114-18 and DoC 122
Publication Note	Examen Poeticum (London, 1693) ?
	Harris (ed.), Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset (1979) pp 173-5
	P. Legouis, 'The Original of Dorset's Lampoon on Madame de Maintenon', MLR, 54 (1959) pp 66-68