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Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)1

Title: [unknown]

Author: Beaumont, Francis

Attribution: F. ... (?):

Date(s): 1609

Manuscript: Lt q 11

Contents: Witty elegy on the death of Lady Markham, pretending love for her corpse and

asking worms to engrave her epitaph on her forehead

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The ex-ale-tation of ale

Mews, Peter (1619-1706); Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)

1671

A poem. Attributed to the Bishop of Winchester, Peter Mews, by Wing and DNB; the poem has also been attributed to Francis Beaumont (included in his Poems, 1653) and to Bishop Andrewes. First publi...

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The maid's tragedy altered : with some other pieces

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Fletcher, John (1579-1625)

1690

First authorised edition. The maid's tragedy altered is only a fragment, probably intended by Waller to form a new act V for Beaumont and Fletcher's tragedy, with some additions (cf. Greg, 357). "...

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The second part of Mr. Waller's poems : containing his alteration of The maid's tragedy : and whatever of his is yet unprinted : together with some other poems, speeches, etc. that were printed severally and never put into the first collection of his poems

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1690

Possibly edited by Francis Atterbury. First edition. This is the unauthorized edition which was ensured in the prefatory note of the authorized edition, the maid's tragedy altered, 1690. "The ma...

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