Poem on the shortness of man’s life, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Item

MS. Rawl. D. 859, fol. 158

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In Baskervile’s handwriting.

This is the well-known poem beginning: "Like to the damask rose we see", of which the first stanza was written by Francis Quarles, and which has been also assigned for that and another stanza to Henry King, bishop of London, Dr. Donne, and others. Here it consists of eight twelve-line stanzas and their ascription to Donne as their real author appears to be corroborated by the present MS. which has his own and his wife’s name written thus at the end: "Iohn Dun, / Anne Dun, / Vndone".

Dates

Creation: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 859, fol. 158

Additional Description

Bibliography

The stanzas are found in their complete form at the end of a little anonymous book, frequently reprinted, entitled, Crumbs of comfort and godly Prayers, and were also printed from a MS., under the name of Richard Wates as their author, in vol. iii of the fifth series of Notes and Queries, 1875, p. 291. (See also Dr. Richard Caulfield’s article at p. 349 in the same volume).

Related Names

Creator

From the Collection: Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary (Person)
From the Collection: Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State (Person)
From the Collection: Wilkinson | Thomas | fl 1600-1699 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
From the Collection: Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (Person)
From the Collection: Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
From the Collection: Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate (Person)
From the Collection: Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London (Person)
From the Collection: Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville (Person)
From the Collection: Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher (Person)
From the Collection: Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer (Person)
From the Collection: Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works (Person)
From the Collection: Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
From the Collection: Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist (Person)
From the Collection: Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister (Person)
From the Collection: Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph (Person)
From the Collection: Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 (Person)
From the Collection: Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine (Person)
From the Collection: Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
From the Collection: Turner | Thomas | 1645-1714 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Person)
From the Collection: Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet (Person)
From the Collection: Williams | John | fl 1709-1726 | Poet (Person)
From the Collection: Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton (Person)
From the Collection: Zamboni | Giovanni Giacomo | fl 1723-1751 | resident in England for Duke of Modena (Person)
From the Collection: Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury (Person)
From the Collection: Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary (Person)
From the Collection: L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian (Person)
From the Collection: Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar (Person)
From the Collection: Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian (Person)
From the Collection: Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister (Person)

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