Lady Hester Pulter

'A Ruffian Rustick Clambring up a Tree'

PuH 1

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 125r-v)

Alitheas Pearl ('ffair Alithea (when I was A Girle)')

PuH 2

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 48v-51r)

'All Creatures then the Dolphin are more slow'

PuH 3

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 117r-v)

'An old Man through a Town did often pass'

PuH 4

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 130r-v)

'And must the sword this controverse deside'

PuH 5

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Facsimile of f. 87r in Robson, p. 242.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 87r)

'Aristominus his Strang Ambiguous ffate'

PuH 6

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 122v-3r)

Aurora ('Lovely Aurora, o how Heavenly faire')

PuH 7

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 7v-8r)

Aurora ('Lovly Aurora, when wilt thou apear')

PuH 8

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 55r-v)

'Behold how many Cobwebs doth invest'

PuH 9

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 115r-v)

'Behold this flying ffish with shineing Wings'

PuH 10

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 107v)

The Center ('Oh that the Splendent & Illustrious Sun')

PuH 11

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 46v-7v)

The Circle ('In sighs and tears there is noe end')

PuH 12

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 38r-v)

The Circle ('The eternall Spirit of Life and Love')

PuH 13

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 54v)

The Circle ('Those that y^e hidden Chimick Art pfess')

PuH 14

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 40v)

The Circle ('To bee unwilling or afraid to die')

PuH 15

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 42v)

'Come my Dear Children come and Happy bee'

PuH 16

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 91v-2r)

To my Deare J P: M: P:, P:P: They beeing at London, I at Bradfield ('Come my Deare Children to this lonely Place')

PuH 17

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 56r)

'Come my Dear Pledges of our Constant Loves'

PuH 18

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 114v-15r)

The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of Kings was imprisoned by the worst of Rebels at Holmbie ('Late in an evening as I walk'd alone')

PuH 19

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 8v-10r)

'Could this ffell Catablepe lift up her head'

PuH 20

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 113r)

'Dear God from thy high Throne look down'

PuH 21

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 86r)

'Dear God turn not away thy fface'

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PuH 22

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 39v-40r)

The desire ('Dear God, vouchsafe from thy High Throne')

PuH 23

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 38v)

A Dialogue between two Sisters Virgins bewailing their solitary life, P:P:, f.p. ('Come my deare sister sit with mee a while')

PuH 24

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 77r-8r)

The Eclips ('Why doe those frowning vapours interpose')

PuH 25

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 3r-4r)

The Garden, or The Contention of fflowers, To my Dear Daughter M^ris Anne [Pulter] at her desire written ('Once in my Garden as a lone I lay')

PuH 26

Copy, the name Pulter in the title deleted.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 19r-32v)

'Honor I have I want no heartly pellt'

PuH 27

Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 1r)

The Hope January :1665: ('Deare Death desolve theise mortall charms')

PuH 28

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 88r)

'How fast this creature runs upon the earth'

PuH 29

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 96r-v)

'How long shall my dejected soul'

PuH 30

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 42r-v)

'Immense ffount of Truth, Life, Love, joy, Glory'

PuH 31

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 72r)

'In Africa about the ffountain's brink'

PuH 32

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 99v-100r)

'In Ments[?] when Corn was grown excessive dear'

PuH 33

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 123r-v)

The invitation into the Countrey to my D.D. MP: PP 1647 when his Sacred Maj^tie: was at unhappy home ('Deare daughters come make hast away')

PuH 34

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 4v-7r)

The invocation of the Elements the longest Night in the Year 1655 ('Have patience my aflicted soul')

PuH 35

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 59v-62v)

The Larke ('See how Arachne doth her Howres Pass')

PuH 36

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 68v-70v)

Made when I was not well. April 20. 1655 ('My Soul why dost thou such a mourning make')

PuH 37

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 73v-4r)

Made when I was Sick 1647 ('Oh mee! how sore, how sad is my poor heart')

PuH 38

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 48r)

Made when my spirits were sunk very low with sickness & sorrow. May 1667 I being seventy one years old ('Droop not my soul, nor hang the Wing')

PuH 39

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 88v)

'Mark but those Hogs w^ch underneath yond tree'

PuH 40

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 113v)

'Marvall not my names conceald'

PuH 41

Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 1r)

'Must I thus ever interdicted bee'

PuH 42

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 76r)

'My God I thee and onely thee Adore'

PuH 43

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 73r)

'My Heart why dost thou Throb soe in my breast'

PuH 44

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 72v)

My Loue is Fair ('And is thy Love soe Wonderous ffair')

PuH 45

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 82r-v)

'My Soul why art thou full of trouble'

PuH 46

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 58v-9r)

My Souls Sole desire ('Thou that didst on the Chaos move')

PuH 47

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 46r)

Of A young Lady at Oxford 1646 ('A Noble pair in Love without Compare')

PuH 48

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 62v-4r)

Of Night and Morning ('Night's like the Grave wherein wee lie forelorn')

PuH 49

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 10r)

'Oh my aflicted Solitary Soul'

PuH 50

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 45r-v)

'Old Esculus being told that hee should die'

PuH 51

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 111v-12r)

On that Unparraleld Prince Charles the first: his Horrid Muther ('Those glittring Globes of light which grace')

PuH 52

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 15v-16r)

On the Fall of that Grand Rebel the Earl of Essex his Effigies in Harry the 7^th's Chappel in Westminster Abby ('When that Fierce Monster had usurp'd the Place')

PuH 53

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 246-7, with a facsimile of f. 85r on p. 241.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 85r-v)

On the Horrid Murther of that incomparable Prince, King Charles the ffirst ('Let none presume to weep, tears are to weak')

PuH 54

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 34r)

On the kinges most exelent magisty K Charles y^e 1^st ('Victorious palm triumphing lawrell boughs')

PuH 55

Copy, the heading in another hand.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 44r-v)

On the Same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter J P] ('Tell mee noe more her haire was lovly brown')

PuH 56

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 250-1, with a facsimile of f. 17v on p. 240.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 17v-18v)

On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First] ('Let none sigh more for Lucas or for Lisle')

PuH 57

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 34r-5r)

On those two unparraleld friends, S^r: G: Lisle and S^r C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester ('Is Lisle and Lucas Slaine? Oh Say not soe')

PuH 58

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 13v-15r)

The perfection of Patience and Knowledg ('My soul in strugling thou dost Jll')

PuH 59

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 57r-8r)

The Pismire ('Walking a broad once in a Sumers day')

PuH 60

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 53r-4r)

The Revolution ('Oh thou which Circumvolveth all')

PuH 61

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 36r-7v)

'Seest thou this Horizentall Bird whose eyes'

PuH 62

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 114r)

A Solitary Complainte ('Must I bee still confind to this Sad Grove')

PuH 63

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 75r-v)

A solitary discoars ('How canst thou heavie bee now shee apears')

PuH 64

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 64v-7r)

'Some Birds their bee sure they noe love doe lack'

PuH 65

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 97v)

'Somnus why art thou still to mee unkinde'

PuH 66

Copy, on a leaf in a separate folder.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 130A^r-v)

'That many Heliotropians there bee'

PuH 67

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 92r-v)

'The Brackman th'angrie Deities to appeas'

PuH 68

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 121v-2r)

'The Caucasines with Locusts were anoy'd'

PuH 69

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 127r-v)

'The Cockatrice as vulgarly receiv'd'

PuH 70

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 101r)

'The Cruel Tiger Swiftly on doth Pass'

PuH 71

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 100v)

'The Cuckoes constitution's cold shee knows'

PuH 72

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 110r-v)

'The Dubious Raven doth her young forsake'

PuH 73

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 98r)

'The Eliphant when Radiant Sol doth rise'

PuH 74

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 102v-3r)

'The Estrich with her gallant gaudy plumes'

PuH 75

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 119r-v)

'The hunted hart when shee begins to Tire'

PuH 76

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 105r-v)

'The Indian Mooze three Young at once doth bear'

PuH 77

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 95v)

'The Lion Roars his vassals fear and tremble'

PuH 78

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 112r-v)

'The Lyon that of late soe Domineer'd'

PuH 79

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 116r-v)

'The Manucodiats as Authors write'

PuH 80

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 93v-4r)

'The Marmottanes for Unitie's renownd'

PuH 81

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 107r)

'The Porcupine went Ruffling in his pride'

PuH 82

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 99r-v)

'The Stately Mooz being mounted up the hill'

PuH 83

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 108v-9r)

'The Toad and Spider once would trie the might'

PuH 84

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 106r-7v)

'There is one black & sullen hour'

PuH 85

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 84r)

PuH 86

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. i^r rev.)

'This huge Leviathan for all his Strength'

PuH 87

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 120r-v)

'This Stately Ship Courted by Winds & Tide'

PuH 88

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 120v-1v)

'This Ugly Sow descendent of that Bore'

PuH 89

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 111r)

'This vast Leviathan Whose Breathing blows'

PuH 90

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 98v)

This was written 1648 when I Lay Inn, with my Son John [Pulter] beeing my 15 Child I beeing soe weak that in Ten dayes and Nights I never moued my Head one Jot from my Pillow, out of which great weaknes my gracious God restored me; that I still Live to magnifie his Mercie 1665 ('Sad, Sick, and Lame, as in my Bed I lay')

PuH 91

Copy, the name Pulter deleted in the title, the date 1655 written as a corrective sidenote in a different hand.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 67r-8v)

'Those that imployed are the Apes to catch'

PuH 92

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 108r-v)

To Astrea ('Thou blessed Birth of the Celestiall Morn')

PuH 93

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 41v)

To Aurora ('Faire Rosie Virgin when wilt thou Arise')

PuH 94

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 41r)

To Aurora ('Look up sad eyes behould the smileing Morn')

PuH 95

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 43r-v)

To Aurora ('Why doth Pale Phoebe thus her bevty shrowd')

PuH 96

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 52r-3r)

S^r: W^m: D: Upon the unspeakable Loss of the most conspicuous and chief Ornament of his ffrontispiece ('Sir / Extreamly I deplore your loss')

PuH 97

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 83r-4r)

'Two Mountebancks contended for A Stage'

PuH 98

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 94v-5r)

Universal dissolusion, made when I was with Child of my 15^th: child I being my sonne John very one thought in a Consumption 1648 ('My Soule why art thou sad at the decay')

PuH 99

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 10v-13r)

Upon the Crown Imperiall ('Why doth the Tears stand in the Orient eyes')

PuH 100

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 74v)

Vpon the Death of my deare and lovely daughter J P ('All you that haue indulgent Parents been')

PuH 101

Copy, with an inserted note identifying J P as Jane Pulter, baptized May 1. 1625, buried oct 8 1645, aet. 20.

Facsimile of f. 17v in Robson, p. 240.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 16v-17v)

Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd Prince King Charles the ffirst ('Why I sit sighing here ask mee noe more')

PuH 102

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 33r)

'Vain Erostratus was soe fond of ffame'

PuH 103

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 109v-10r)

'Vertue once in the Olympicks fought a duell'

PuH 104

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 93r-v)

'View but this Tulip, Rose, or July fflower'

PuH 105

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 118r-v)

The weepeinge wishe January .1665 ('O that the tears that tricle from mine eyes')

PuH 106

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 84v)

The Welcom ('Dear Death thou'rt welcom to my troubled soul')

PuH 107

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 39r)

The Welcome ('Death come and welcome thou'rt my Ancient friend')

PuH 108

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 51v)

'When as that Geniall Universall ffire'

PuH 109

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 124r)

'When Brittish Brennus Sack'd that Noble Citty'

PuH 110

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 126v)

'When fair Aurora drest with raidient Light'

PuH 111

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 128r-9r)

'When God (who is to Mercie most inclin'd)'

PuH 112

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 101v-2r)

'When Mighty Nimrade Hunting after fame'

PuH 113

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 91r)

'When Phalaris for Tiranny soe ffam'd'

PuH 114

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 126r)

'When royal ffergus Line did rule this Realm'

PuH 115

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 124v-5r)

'When scornd Medea saw Cruesa led'

PuH 116

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 96v-7r)

'Who can but pitty this poor Turtle Dove'

PuH 117

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Facsimile and transcription of f. 104r in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 390-1.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 103v-4r)

'Why art thou sad at the aproach of Night'

PuH 118

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 71r-v)

'Why must I thus for ever bee confin'd'

PuH 119

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A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 79r-81r)

The Wish ('Oh that I were a Sun that I might Send')

PuH 120

Copy.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 f. 74r)

'You that love Poppit Playes, Masks, Court Buffoons'

PuH 121

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

c.1655-61

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 32 ff. 104v-5r)

Introduction

Verse

Prose

Contents