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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 662
Title
MS song entitled 'The Whiggish merchant Alamode answered verse for verse by Nic. Fitz Gerald'; n.d.
Date
n.d.
Extent
5 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of 36 3-line verses plus refrain.
Sung to the tune 'which nobody can deny'.
On the Duke D'Amont, the French Ambassador who came to England after the peace in 1713.
Title Of Work
The Whiggish merchant Alamode answered verse for verse by Nic. Fitz Gerald
First Line of Poem
Attend and prepare for a Cargo from Dover
Last Line of Poem
And make a good Peace to Great Britain's applause
Language
English
Physical Description
Two sheets folded once to form four folios, and a single folio sewn together within a sheet of printed wall?paper
Condition
Generally good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, 102 x 90 mm
Countermark: Letters IM, 12 x 26 mm
Watermark
Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material
Crum, Index, A 1889
<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Eng. misc. c 116, f 5v
<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Rawl. poet. c 986, f 25
Publication Note
Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 274-78
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA72740
Fitzgerald; Nicholas
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