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Copies of An essaye upon satyre, 1675 [manuscript], between 1679 and 1697?.

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 1721, attributed name.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700, attributed name.
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.6 (1-5)

Title
Copies of An essaye upon satyre, 1675 [manuscript], between 1679 and 1697?.
Uniform title
Essaye upon satyre
Description
5 items.
Associated name
Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 1721, attributed name.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700, attributed name.
Summary
Contains 4 manuscripts copies (1-3, 5) in different hands and 1 printed copy (4), p. [109]-124 of an unknown publication. The dates of the manuscript copies are probably between 1679 and 1697. The manuscript copies contain 285 lines each while the printed copy has only 255 lines. The first line of the printed copy differs from the manuscript copies. Essay attributed to John Sheffield, then Earl of Mulgrave, in Hugh Macdonald's Dryden bibliography. It has also been attributed to Dryden.
Note
Listed in the Folger card index of first lines. First line: How dull and how insensible a beast. Printed copy first line: How vain, and how insensible a Beast.
Provenance
Copy 5 was previously MS Add 478.
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.6 (1-5)
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Poems.

Call number
X.d.6 (1-5)