A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
R3 Vainglorious man who can your witt applaude
Notes. Laud became Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1630, after a contested and somewhat controversial election.
“On Bp Laud being chosen Chauncelor of Oxford”
Vainglorious man who can your witt applaude
That stretch so farre to get a little Laude.
Did nature erre? or on set purpose try
To shew her power in such a prodegie
Shee, untill know, nere croun’d (as I could reade)
5So vast a body with soe small a head
yet Oxford in thy choise th’art partly blest
For of the thing that’s bad a little’s best.
Source. Folger MS V.a.97, p. 5
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. e.97, p. 31
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