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The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously 'witty' acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell's death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot's 'A sea of the seed's sufferings'.
Benjamin Keach, War with the Devil (1673), Robert Wild, A Panegyrique Humbly addrest to the Kings ... Delivered (1673), Benjamin Keach, An Elegy on the Death of that most Laborious … John Norcot (1676), Robert Wild, An Exclamation against Popery (1678), Robert Wild, Oliver Cromwells Ghost: or Old Noll newly Revived (1679), Robert Wild, Dr. Wild’s Poem. In Nova Fert Animus (1679), Benjamin Keach, Th e Glorious Lover (1679), Martin Mason, In Memoriam Johannis Perrotti (1682), Editorial Notes
Biography
George Southcombe
