Lancashire Record Office

DDS. 19/11

A collection of recusant verse, 16 leaves. c.1586.

Among the Scarsbrick, Blundell and Crosby papers.

pp. 7-8

TiC 39: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

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First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

pp. 8-29

SoR 267.9: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

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First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.