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Impromptu by Mr. Glover
      Sunning Hill Octer 15th.
      1779


Ye lovely stars of Sunning dale
      Which you with brightneʃs fill,
Leonidas[1] muʃt now bewail
      Your distance from the hill.

There damps and rain disʃsolve your charm;
       ------ Sore cramps his speed have barr'd;
Poor wife sighs oer a scalded arm,
      And cannot hold a card.
N.B:  ------  The Dr. Old mans own hand writing

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 1. Leonidas was the title of Glover's epic poem, published in 1737.

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Ye lovely stars of Sunning dale
      Which you with brightness fill,
Leonidas must now bewail
      Your distance from the hill.

There damps and rain dissolve your charm;
      Sore cramps his speed have barred;
Poor wife sighs o'er a scalded arm,
      And cannot hold a card.

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 1. Leonidas was the title of Glover's epic poem, published in 1737.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Verses by Richard Glover

Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/5

Document Details

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Date: 15 October 1779

Summary: Lines of poetry by Richard Glover. There is also a note by Mary Hamilton stating that this piece was written in the dear 'old man's hand writing'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 45 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 4 June 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2020

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