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Punch's petition to the ladies

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Imprint: [Dublin, 1724]

First line: Fair ones! To you who Hearts Command,

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Printed. Signed: Punch cum sociis; sometimes attributed, erroneously, to Swift and to Sheridan. Handwritten annotation below title, "written upon Secretary Hopkins refusing to let Stretch act without a large Sum of money."

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Date

1724

Call number

143201

Provenance

Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).

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[Sheridan, Thomas ?]. Punch to the Ladies his Petition

Manuscripts

Poem in 107 lines. Endorsed: "Punch's Petition to the Ladies." Attributed to Sheridan by Sir Walter Scott.

HM 14370.

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Fyleman, Rose. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Dorking, England

Manuscripts

Rose is contributor to Punch and author of children's poems.

mssAdams

Miscellany : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-46v. Liber alphabeti super cantu plano. [i.e. Treatise on plain chant]. Incipit: Et primo viginti sunt litere cantus. Guama a b c d e f g a b c d e f g a b c d e. Que dividuntur in tres partes in viii graves et septem accutas et Ve super acutas. Octo graves sunt ille que ponuntur in primo ordine. Explicit: Quando vero sextus tonus seu a sexti toni habet suum finem in e sol fa ut tunc Intonatur per iiiiam deductionem et mediatur per vam ut in subsequenti exemplo patet [musical notation on "Dixit dominus domino meo sede a dextris meis"; catchword:] Pro Maior [?]//. Rubric: Liber alphabeti super cantu plano. Latin. ff. 47-50. [Alcuin]. [De psalmorum usu liber]. Incipit: Prophetie spiritus non semper electorum mentibus presto est quatenus cum hunc non habent. Explicit: si intima mente scrusteris et ad medullam intimi intellectus per dei gratiam pervenies. Amen. Latin. PL 101:465-468. ff. 50v-57. [Customary]. Incipit: Semel dum me cernerem valde tribulari/ Hoc unde procedent cepi contemplari/ Meaque flagicia in mente rimari. Explicit: Ac prester ut regulam sic adimpleamus/ Sic omnes ad bravium celeste curramus/ Ut cuncti feliciter illud capiamus/ Ut cum sanctis omnibus semper gaudeamus. Amen. Finis. Memento rogare pro Scriptore. Latin. Monastic customary in 69 stanzas of 4-line monorhyme verse. ff. 57v-66. [Walter Mapes]. De contentione anime et corporis. Incipit: Noctis sub silentio tempore brumali/ Dedictus quodadmodo sompno spirituali.... [another text:] Vir quidam extiterat dudum heremita phillibertus nomine cuius erat vita frutosa penitus et testatur ita. Explicit: Et mereamur sic a deo liberari/ Et in eterna gloria cum eo commorari. Deo gracias. Amen. Rubric: De contentione anime et corporis Secundum quod quidam heremita francigena philibertus nomine filius regalis vidit in spiritu. Latin. T. Wright, ed., The Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes (London 1841) pp. 95-106 for the first 75 stanzas; pp. 149-50, line 36 for the following 9 stanzas; the next to the last stanza, not in the printed text, reads: Quando genus hominum morti deputatur/ Quo post mortem transeat quisque ignoratur/ Contremisco iugiter dum mens meditatur/ Quis sum et quo propero quid michi paratur; the last stanza is vv. 41-44 on p. 150. Regarding the verses at the end which attribute the Contention to "Philibertus heremita," see The Latin Poems..., p. 95, footnote, where a similar attribution is printed: the first stanza appears somewhat confused in FI 5096; the second stanza corresponds; the third is lacking in the printed text. ff. 66v-67. [Jacopone da Todi?] Versus de contemptu mundi. Incipit: Cur mundus militat sub vana gloria/ Cuius prosperitas est transitoria. Explicit: Superna cogita cor sit in ethere/ Felix qui poterit mundum contempnere. Amen. Rubric: Versus de contemptu mundi. Latin. Walther, Initia 3934. ff. 67-76. [Passages on Mass and Communion]. Latin. Several are attributed to Thomas Aquinas, to Bonaventure and to Anselm. ff. 76v-79v. [Prayers for the dying]. Latin. Domine ihesu christe fili dei vivi per agoniam et oracionem tuam santissimam...; Domine ihesu christe fili dei vivi qui pro nobis mori dignatus es in cruce...; Domine ihesu christe fili dei vivi qui per os prophete tui dixisti in caritate perpetua. ff. 79v-82v; ff. 83-86 blank. [Prayers for redemption from purgatory]. Latin. ff. 86v-109; ff. 109v-113v blank. [Votive masses]. Latin. On f. 113v, added in two later hands: beginning of a prayer against plague; a letter, ending defectively.

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