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Poems and songs, ca. 1600-ca. 1750 [manuscript], compiled ca. 1713 and ca. 1745.

Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.; D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; Thomas, John, 1691-1766.; Roper, Abel, 1665-1726.; Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.; Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.; Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.; Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.; Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653. Mad fashions, od fashions, all out fashions.
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Title
Poems and songs, ca. 1600-ca. 1750 [manuscript], compiled ca. 1713 and ca. 1745.
Description
1 v.
Associated name
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668.
L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
Thomas, John, 1691-1766.
Roper, Abel, 1665-1726.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Summary
The collector included many pro-Tory and anti-Catholic satires; some have been taken from newspapers. Among the poets are: Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, the Earl of Rochester [John Wilmot], John Thomas, Abel Roper, Abraham Cowley, Matthew Prior (see leaves 112r, 132v and reference to him on leaf 120r), Jonathan Swift, Colley Cibber, Edmund Waller, Thomas D'Urfey, Sir Roger L'Estrange, and William Davenant. Also, a receipt against the plague; Will (poem) of Matthew A-y of Cambridge in New England, December 30, 1731, "To my dear wife" (leaf 113v); manuscript copy of the illustrated title page of John Taylor's Mad fashions, od fashions, all out fashions from 1642 (leaf 74), and other items. Leaf 157v appears to be in a child's hand.
Note
[1] 6-54 [1 pasted in] 55-71 [1 pasted in] 72-101, 103-108 [102 pasted in] 109-114 [1] 115-207 leaves. Some pages removed.

Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

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Includes
Taylor, John, 1580-1653. Mad fashions, od fashions, all out fashions.
Genre/form
Poems.
Songs.
Satires.
Medical formularies.
Anthologies.
Poetical miscellanies.
Manuscripts (documents)

Call number
W.a.135
Folger accession
MS ADD 240