Record

Document Reference	Pw V 636
Title	MS satire entitled 'The Caball' in response to Dryden's essay on satire; c 1680
Date	1680 (c)
Extent	4 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 208 lines. Also known by the title 'In Opposition to Mr Dryden's Essay on Satyr 1680'. This manuscript omits certain couplets as well as the last 16 lines found in the printed edition.
Title Of Work	The Caball
First Line of Poem	Now the Reformers of the Court and Stage
Last Line of Poem	Would Damne themselves and theire posterity
Language	English
Term	The Cabal
Physical Description	Two sheets folded once to form four folios
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within ornate and crowned shield, 76 x 48 mm
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol II (1965), pp 327-38

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA28866	Villiers; George (1628-1687); 2nd Duke of Buckingham	1628-1687
NA25767	Saville; George (1633-1695); 1st Marquess of Halifax; cr. Baron Saville of Eland 1668; cr. Earl of Halifax 1679; cr. Marquess of Halifax 1682	1633-1695
NA28844	Cooper; Anthony A. (1621-1683); 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; M.P.; creat. 1672; also 1st Baron Ashley; supporter of Monmouth	1621-1683