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Brotherton Collection8
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immortality3
soul3
dance2
acrostics1
love poetry1

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Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)3
D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668)2
D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-16682
Bedell, Gabriel (1668)1
Buckingham, George Villiers1
Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687)1
Collins, Thomas (1650-1682)1
Davys, Mary (1674-1731)1
Denham, Sir John (1615-1669)1
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-16031

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The original, nature, and immortality of the soul : A poem. With an introduction concerning human knowledge

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)

1715

First pub. in 1599 under title: Nosce te-ipsum. Epistle dedicatory is by N. Tate, the preface, by "an ingenious and learned divine."

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The incomparable poem Gondibert : vindicated from the wit-combats of four esquires, Clinias, Dametas, Sancho, and Jack Pudding

Wild, Robert (1609-1679)

1655

Anon., attributed to Wild by NUC and Wing, but more likely by several hands, probably those involved in "Certain verses". Satirical verses on Davenant's "Gondibert" and on Davenant himself. First ...

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Certain verses written by severall of the authors friends : to be reprinted with the 2d edition of Gondibert

Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687)

1653

Anon., by Sir John Denham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and others. Satirical verses on Davenant's "Gondibert" and on Davenant himself.

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Madagascar : with other poems

D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668)

1638

Title vignette. Decorative tail-pieces.

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Two excellent plays : The wits, a comedie: The platonick lovers, a tragi-comedie. Both presented at the Private House in Black-Friers, by His Majesties servants

D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Bedell, Gabriel (1668); Collins, Thomas (1650-1682)

1665

Title within ornamental border; headpieces; initials. Each play has special t.-p. with ornamental border. "To the readers of Sir William Davenant's play" signed: T. Carew.

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Nosce teipsum : This oracle expounded in two elegies : 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astraea in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poem of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)

1622

Signatures: B-M8 L⁴. Last leaf is blank. The general title page has "ORCHESTRA"; a variant has "Orchestra"; with errata on recto of L3; a variant lacks errata. "Hymnes of Astrea" (beginning le...

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