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A panegyrick on Cardinal Wolsey

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/1059

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Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1059 (Lt 13 )

Title: A panegyrick on Cardinal Wolsey

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/98964

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 13

Pages: f.20v

Description

Notes: (Hail minister by)

First lines: Hail minister by paradoxes great

Proceeds it from thy genius or thy fate

Last lines: Say mighty W--- are we to adore

Thy starrs or genius never matchd before ?

Length: 25

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Satirical praise supposedly of Cardinal Wolsey but probably attacking Sir

Robert Walpole's conduct of affairs