Bosworth-field: a poem...with several verses in praise of the author, and elegies on his death by the greatest wits then living [T29559]
- DMI number:
- 215
- Publication Date:
- 1710
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T29559
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW109543248
- Shelfmark:
- BOD G. Pamph. 1278 (14) (see also bound in the same volume BOD G. Pamph 1278 (16)).
- Full Title:
- [g]Bosworth-field:[/g] | A | POEM. | Written in the Year 1629. and Dedicated | to King [i]CHARLES[/i] I. | [rule] | By Sir [i]JOHN BEAUMONT[/i], Baronet. | [rule] | With several VERSES in Praise of the Author, | and ELEGIES on his Death, by the greatest | Wits then living. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and Sold by [i]H. Hills[/i] in [i]Black-fryars[/i], | near the Water-side, 1710.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany dominated by poet
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [2], 3-39, [1] pp.
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin verse p. 15 signed 'Ph. Kin.'
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Dedication 'to the King's most excellent majesty' [i.e. Charles I] signed 'John Beaumont', son of Sir John Beaumont, pp. 3-4. End matter: Catalogue of books 'Printed and Sold by H. Hills'
- Author:
- Beaumont||John||Jr
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'John Beaumont' signs the dedication.
- Dedicatee:
- Charles I
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Dedicated to King Charles I' (first edition of this work pub. 1629)
- Printer:
- Henry Hills
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars near the Water-side.'
- First Line:
- To tell the world what it hath lost in thee
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy to the Living Memory of his Deceased Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Nevill
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Nevill
- First Line:
- I write not elegies nor tune my verse
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- First Line:
- We do not usher forth thy verse with these
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- To the Worthy Muse of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- First Line:
- Ye heavenly sisters by whose sacred skill
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- A Congratulation to the Muses, for the immortalizing of his dear Father, by the Sacred Vertue of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- John Beaumont
- Attributed To:
- Beaumont||John||Jr
- First Line:
- You who prepare to read grave Beaumont's verse
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Upon the following Poem of my dear Father, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet, deceased.
- Attribution:
- Francis Beaumont
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- When lines are drawn greater than nature art
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Poem of his dearest Brother, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- George Fortescue
- Attributed To:
- George Fortescue
- First Line:
- This book will live it hath a genius this
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- On the Honour'd Poem of his Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet,
- Attribution:
- Ben. Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- This Posthumus from the brave parents name
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- To the dear Remembrance of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Mi. Drayton
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
- First Line:
- I knew thee not I speak it to my shame
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Honoured Poem of his Unknown Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Ja. Cl.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The winter's storm of civil war I sing
- Page No:
- pp.17-39
- Poem Title:
- Bosworth-Field: A Poem
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Beaumont
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Beaumont
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