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BC MS Lt q 71

Elegies on the deaths of John and Lydia Burgh.

ca. 1740

Two epitaphs (3 ff.) and four related documents. The poem for Lydia Burgh is 64 lines and begins 'When gloomy night had clos'd the toilsom Day'. The poem to her husband John Burgh is 72 lines, dated a...