Thomas Deloney

Thomas Deloney

1543?–1600?

Introduction

Of those works printed in Mann, no manuscript is known except for a contemporary copy of one of the songs in The Garland of Good Will (DlT 1). There are no currently known specimens of Deloney's handwriting.

Abbreviations

Mann — The Works of Thomas Deloney, ed. Francis Oscar Mann (Oxford, 1912; reprinted 1967).

Verse

A song in praise of a single life ('Some do write of bloudy warres')

First published in The Garland of Good Will (London, 1596?. The earliest known extant edition [exemplum at Yale] is London, 1628). Mann, pp. 328-30.

DlT 1

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of songs and ballads, in double columns, ii + 26 leaves, some imperfect or excised.

c.1580-1600

Owned c.1600 by Thomas and William Wagstaffe.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 185 f. 22v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Introduction

Abbreviations

Verse

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