17th Century Verse No. 2
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, unbound.
Mid-17th century.-
ClJ 206No description or publication history available.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as
Internally unlike his manner
. Morris & Withington, p. 66, amongPoems probably by Cleveland
. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')