Verses on the death of Queen Caroline [T50710]
- DMI number:
- 656
- Publication Date:
- 1738
- ESTC number:
- T50710
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW106008531
- Shelfmark:
- BL 603.k.28.(5.)
- Full Title:
- VERSES | ON THE | DEATH | Of Her late Most Excellent MAJESTY | Queen [i]CAROLINE[/i], | Of Blessed Memory; | Who departed this Life. [i]Novemb.[/i] 20. M DCC XXXVII. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for RICHARD HETT, at the [i]Bible and Crown[/i] in the [i]Poultry.[/i] | MDCCXXXVIII. | (Price Sixpence.)
- Epigraph:
- [i]Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus | Tam cari capitis? praecipe lugubres | Cantus Melpomene - - - - - - - [/i] HOR.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection associated with specific occasion and Memorial collection
- Format:
- Folio
- Price:
- Sixpence
- Pagination:
- [2], 3-10, 11-12 [last leaf is MS addition].
- Bibliographic details:
- HALF TITLE: [rule] | VERSES | ON THE | DEATH | Of Her late Most Excellent MAJESTY | Queen [i]CAROLINE[/i]. | [rule] A MS copy of 'A Lampoon To which the foregoing Epitaph Was drawn up as an Answer,' possibly by the Earl of Chesterfield has been added at the end, continuing the volume's pagination (11-12). The hand imitates the typography of the printed text. The title says the last poem in the volume ('Here lies lamented by the poor and great') was an answer to this lampoon, explaining the lines on p.9: "Lov'd by the Good and hated by the Evil; | Pursu'd, now dead, by Satire and the Devil". The first line reads 'Here Lies unpitied both by hurch and State'. It ends with this couplet: "To her own offspring mercy she deny'd, | And unforgiving, unforgiven dy'd".
- Comments:
- ESTC notes 'Sometimes attributed to Thomas Tickell'. MS notes '3 poems, by different hands?'.
- Publisher:
- Richard Hett
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Muse bid the verse in plaintive numbers flow
- Page No:
- p.3-7
- Poem Title:
- Verses on the Death of Her Majesty Queen Caroline.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bend gracious sovereign bend the willing ear
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- To the King
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies lamented by the poor and great
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on the Queen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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