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Buckingham, John Sheffield Duke of (1648-21)1
Peyton, Robert, Sir1
Shepherd, Richard (1732?-1809)1
Waller, William, Sir, D. 16991

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The sheeps skin pull'd off from the wolf's back: or, The uncasing of the knight : Being a satyrical copy of verses on the abominable and treasonable practices of a pagan knight with a Christian name, now in the Tower

[1680]

The knight is sometimes identified with Sir William Waller, but the piece appears to refer to Robert Peyton's rôle in the proceedings concerned with the Meal-Tub Plot. Verse - "Of all the plots we ...

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The enjoyment

Buckingham, John Sheffield Duke of (1648-21)

1679

In verse. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Anon., by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. Another edition of this poem (Wing, 1st ed, R1742) is wrongly attributed to the Earl of Rochester.

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The nuptials : a didactic poem in three books

Shepherd, Richard (1732?-1809)

1763

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