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POEM MENTIONED IN ONE OF THE LANSDOWNE MSS
By BOLTON CORNEY.
It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard to the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata through the convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A hearty well wisher to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first responsive scrap. The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The foolish rime to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus entitled:— "A Skeltonicall salutation, Or condigne gratulation, And iust vexation Of the Spanish nation,…
Topics: Victorian Poetry, Historical Customs, Literature
Locations: Oxford, London, British Museum