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A partly autograph presentation MS to the Dowager Countess of Derby, on fifteen quarto leaves.
Headed The hoble: Lorde & Lady of Huntingdons Entertainement of theire right Noble Mother Alice: Countesse Dowager of Darby the firste nighte of her honors arrivall att the house of Ashby
, the dedication (f. 1r) and all of ff. 14r-15r in Marston's hand, as are probably occasional deletions, corrections and additions throughout the text (including five words on f. 2v and three lines written lengthways down the outer margin on f. 10v); the main text written probably in a single professional hand, in alternating italic and secretary scripts.
The volume also has tipped-in a separate MS of verses relating to Lady Derby and Lady Huntingdon (beginning As this ys endelesse, endelesse be yor ioyes
), in a secretary hand, subscribed W: SK:
[i.e. William Skipton], on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
Edited from this MS by editors. Discussed in R.E. Brettle, Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3 (p. 391); in James D. Knowles, Identifying the Speakers: The Entertainment at Ashby (1607), N&Q, 233 (December 1988), 489-90; and, with facsimile examples, in James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92.
Facsimile pages also in Davenport, p. 191; in R.B. Haselden, Scientific Aids for the Study of Manuscripts, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Supplement 10 (Oxford, 1935), fig. XIII; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 28; and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 165.
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First published in Poems of John Marston, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (Manchester, 1879). Bullen, III, 383-404 (reprinting Grosart). Davenport, pp. 189-207.
John Marston, The Entertainment of the Dowager-Countess of Darby