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Pulter, Lady Hester121
Hadassas121

Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Epigram on the use of a poetic pseudonym

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Title: The eclips

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem on triumph through faith in Christ over the apparent victory of death, mortality and the world; with some revisions

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Title: The invitation into the countrey to my D.D. MP: PP: 1647 when his sacred Majestie was at unhappy home

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1647 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist poem inviting her daughters (probably Margaret and Penelope Pulter) to leave London and join her in the country, arguing that there is nothing to keep them in the city now that Charles I has left. Includes a description of nature's lament

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Title: Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of Aurora, describing the desire of Phoebus (Apollo) for her, and ending with a premonition of death

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Title: The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of kings was imprisoned by the worst of rebels at Holmbie

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1647 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I as if spoken by the River Thames, recalling the former glories of his reign and the consequent envy of the rivers of other nations; with some revisions. Title refers to Charles's imprisonment at Holmby in

the ea

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Title: Of night and morning

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem comparing sunlight to spiritual illumination

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Title: Universal dissolution, made when I was with child of my 15th child I being [ink stain] one thought in a consumption 1648 [Interlineated: my sonne John]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the inevitability of decay and death, relating this universal principle to the chaos of the Civil War and looking forward to peace; with some revisions

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Title: On those two unparraleld friends Sir G: Lisle and Sir C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester [the final seven words in a later hand]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Angry royalist lament for Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas, both of whom were shot at Colchester in August 1648 for their part in the Kentish insurrection during the Civil War; with some revisions

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Title: On that unparraleld Prince Charles the first his horred murther

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, prophesying chaos and disaster for the realm unless another Charles be found to take his place

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Title: Upon the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP [with added note: Jane Pulter, baptized May 1 1625, buried Oct 8 1645, aet. 20].

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1645 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter; with some revisions

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Title: On the same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter, in which the writer asks not to be reminded of her virtues and beauty; with some revisions.

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Title: The garden, or the contention of flowers. To my dear daughter Mistris Anne Pulter [Anne crossed through, Pulter blotted out] at her desire written

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Debate between several types of flowers (named in the margins), in which each presents arguments for precedence over the others, and at the the end of which their "parliament" is "prorogued"; with some revisions

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Title: Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd prince King Charles the First

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I whilst in prison, calling for vengeance; with some revisions

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Title: On the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, arguing that tears are not a sufficient expression of grief for such a loss

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Title: On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, but also for that of Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, and Arthur, Lord Capel of Hadham

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Title: The revolution

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem imagining rising from the earth into heavenly light

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem putting trust in God at a time of weeping and sadness

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Title: The desire

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God at a time of sadness, expressing the desire to leave the earth for the bliss of heaven

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Title: The welcom

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem looking forward to death and the bliss of heaven

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God for sustained help so that death may be defeated and heaven attained

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Criticism of alchemists and others who try to ensure their bodily survival after death, forgetting that mankind must inevitably return to dust

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Title: To Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the battle between light (Aurora) and darkness (Night); with religious overtones

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Title: To Astrea

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of the beauty of the morning star Astraea

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem praising God and hoping for the eventual bliss of heaven

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem on the transience of earthly life

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Title: To Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of the dawn (Aurora), comparing the beauty of the morning star Astraea beneficially with that of other named goddesses

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Title: On the kings most exelent magisty K Charles the 1st

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of Charles I, asking that he and his family be blessed with immortal glory; with some revisions

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Address to the soul, expressing contempt for the world and reflecting on the inevitability of death

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Title: My souls sole desire

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem in praise of God

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Title: The center

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem in praise of God, wishing that the sun's light could shine perpetually so that people need no longer endure the physical and spiritual darkness of night; with some revisions

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Title: Made when I was sick 1647

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1647 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem expressing contempt for the world at a time of sickness (at the age of forty), looking forward to the bliss of heaven

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Title: Alitheas pearl

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1653 (inferred from line 119)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Tale in which personifications of Truth (Alithea), Patience and Hope battled with Despair, Sorrow and Fear for the possession of the author's soul

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Title: The welcome

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem looking forward to death and the bliss of heaven

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Title: To Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, in praise of the dawn (Aurora) and then reflecting on the division between the body and the soul, anticipating the bliss of heaven

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Title: The pismire

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem comparing an anthill to the world in order to express the futility of worldly activity; with some revisions

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem in praise of the light of the morning star Astraea

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Title: Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem wishing for the light of dawn (Aurora) and thus the bliss of heaven, and expressing fear of the chaos associated with night

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Title: To my deare J.P., M.P., P.P. they beeing at London, I at Bradfield

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Invitation to three of her children to join her, both to relieve her loneliness and to share in her religious joy; with some revisions

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Title: The perfection of patience and knowledg

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem comparing the departure of the soul from the body to an awakening or birth into freedom; with some revisions

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem setting aside earthly concerns, and the fate of the body, sure in the knowledge of the soul's eventual elevation to the bliss of heaven

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Title: The invocation of the elements the longest night in the year 1655

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1655 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem in which each elements in turn is asked to take the author's body so that her soul might be free to live in the bliss of heaven

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Title: Of a young lady at Oxford 1646

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 or 1649 or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the suicide of a young woman whose royalist lover was killed during the Civil War, comparing this to the desire, inspired by Christ's death, of the soul to leave the body. With reference to the deaths of Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas.

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Title: A solitary discoars

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem on the mundanity and sadness of earthly life compared to the glorious bliss of heaven

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Title: This was written 1648 when I lay inn with my son John Pulter ['Pulter' blotted out] beeing my 15 child I beeing soe weak that in ten dayes and nights I never moved my head one jot from my pillow out of which great weaknes my gracious God restored

methat I

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem describing an imagined journey of the author's soul through the stars, with many classical allusions, whilst her body lies unmoving because of sickness

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Title: The larke

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious tale of a lark who loses her young chicks, comparing the bird's suffering to that of human life on earth

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem welcoming night as a sign of the circularity of human existence from life to death to life. A later hand has questioningly glossed 'causses' with the note "? chaos or coffins".

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem on the love and light of God

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, chiding the heart for its earthly concerns and cares

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem praying for God's kindness and mercy despite her unworthiness

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Title: Made when I was not well. April 20, 1655

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1655 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem addressing the soul, suggesting that since the author's physical beauty has disappeared the soul should also leave the body

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Title: The wish

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem expressing the wish that she could be a sun, so that she might send her rays to comfort others and express praise of God her creator

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Title: Upon the crown imperiall

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On how the flower known as the crown imperial appears never to shed the rain water collected in it, unlike the author's soul which is for ever overflowing

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Title: A solitary complainte

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem contrasting human life on earth with the glorious bliss of heaven

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem complaining of the withdrawal of God's love from her and asking to be readmitted to his grace

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Title: A dialogue between two sisters virgins bewailing their solitary life, P.P., F.P.

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Dialogue in three speeches attributed to "Young Anne" and "Elder Pen" (i.e. Anne and Penelope Pulter), in which the two sisters lament the sadness of their lives, butresolve to relieve the loneliness of their mother rather than to die

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Lamenting her confinement and consequent inability to help her children, contrasting her immobility with the freedom of less deserving creatures. Ends by looking forward to the liberty of her soul after death, remarking also on the freedom that

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Title: My love is fair

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Lightly satirical address to a man, Philanthropas, urging him to make haste and woo his beloved if her beauty and virtues really do exceed those of the gods

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Title: To Sir Wm. D. upon the unspeakable loss of the most conspicuous and chief ornament of his frontispiece

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Satire upon Sir William Davenant's loss of his nose through syphilis, urging him not to betray his renewed honour in royal service. Begins, "Sir".

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious

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