THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
SONETTI and Canzoni of Petrarch, entitled "Lamentationes domini Francisci Petrarce de amore domine Laure." Preceded by an index of first lines, and followed in the same hand (f. 150) by the Triomphi, headed "Triumfi vi. Petrarce." The reverse of the last leaf contains a copy of Petrarch's note o...
COLLECTION Of pieces in verse and prose, mostly of a religious character; temp. Elizabeth. Included are:-(1) Ballad, in 37 fourline stanzas, in praise of Mary Watt, niece of Hugh Latimer and wife of Robert Glover, the martyr, beg. "Mary Wat the nyce in blud To Latemere the great." f. 8, and cont...
COLLECTION of Welsh Poems by various writers. Imperfect, and mutilated at the beginning. Among the names and headings are:- Bedo Brwynllys. ff. 4 b, 16, 37 b, 60, 198,225. Llywelyn ap Gyttyn. ff. 5, 160, 161, 162 b. Morys Dwyreth. f. 6 b. Davydd Llwyd. ff. 8 b, 25, 107 b, 116 b, 135, 159 b, 160...
POEMS by Sir John Beaumont, Bart., [1582-1628], brother of Francis Beaumont the dramatist, and author of "Bosworth Field." This volume contains several of his shorter poems, including two not printed in Grosart's edition, one (f. 8 b) entitled "Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady," the other (...
"THE VANITIE and Follie of misplaced Love, a brief Reflection on Women": a collection of poems in one hand, on the subject of women, in different metres; followed by some religious meditations and miscellaneous poems. Some are dated from 1693 to 1698. Paper; ff. 331. Small Octavo. Poetry: "The ...
BACON'S ESSAYS; With the Characters of Julius Cæsar and Augustus at the end, and preceded by the dedication to the Duke of Buckingham and "Elogies" on the author by Ben Jonson and by A. Cowley, in his poem to the Royal Society. A printed edition, with the title-page torn out. On one of the fly l...
"CAMILLO'S COMPLAINT: a poem, inscribed to his Grace, George [Stone], Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh" [1747-1765]; and lamenting the brief vice-royalty of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1745-46. In 53 six-line stanzas. Paper; ff. 19. circ. 1747. Quarto. Ge...
COLLECTION of songs and verses, with the inscription on the cover: "Carnarvan 1745 [James Brydges, Marquis of Carnarvon, b. 1731, 3rd Duke of Chandos, 1771] ejus liber carminum, West- [monasteriensis] Alumn[us] Schol[æ]." Included are:-(a) "Verses by the Prince of Wales," beg. "Come, my dearest ...