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Document Reference	Pw V 657
Title	MS poem entitled 'Labor ipse voluptas' in hand of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon; n.d.
Date	n.d.
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 13 lines. Endorsed, probably, in the hand of Edward Harley, 'this is the hand writing of the present Earl of Clarendon and Rochester', i.e. Henry Hyde, 4th Earl.
Title Of Work	Labor ipse voluptas
First Line of Poem	'tis not the Splendour of the place
Last Line of Poem	is onely Labour to doe good
Language	English
Physical Description	Single folio leaf
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, 82 x 94 mm
Watermark	Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Top. Oxon. e 172, f 20r

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1047	Harley; Edward (1689-1741); 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; styled Lord Harley 1711-1724	1689-1741
NA72735	Hyde; Henry (1672-1753); 4th Earl of Clarendon and Rochester	1672-1753

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