QUARLES, Francis.
The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eclogues … London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot … 1646.
Small 4to., pp. [8], 143, [1], wanting the additional engraved title-page (supplied in facsimile) but with an initial blank (A1); slightly browned, dampstain to lower corner of gatherings S-T; modern half calf and marbled boards.
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The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eclogues …
Third edition of this pastoral allegory, first published in 1644, which uses the genre as a thin veil for the discussion of autobiographical, political, and religious matters. The poem includes portraits of Quarles’s friend Phineas Fletcher and of Archbishop Laud, who is described as an Arminian ‘Master Shepheard’.
Wing Q115A; Horden XXVII, 3.