Part pp. 167–72 - ‘Instructions to a Painter, On the Burning the Ships at Chattam’ (author unknown), 1667

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Crewe MS/36/pp. 167–72

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‘Instructions to a Painter, On the Burning the Ships at Chattam’ (author unknown), 1667

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First line: ‘Draw England ruin’d, by what was giv’n before’. Last line: ‘Which most, the Dutch, or Parliament they fear.’ Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1667.’

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Publication note

Printed, with four more lines, in A Third Collection of … Poems … against Popery (1689), pp. 17–18, under the heading ‘Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham.’ See IELM, ii(2). 58–60; ECS, p. 327; and POAS, i. 140–6.

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