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Even in works which, like the elegies for the royal martyr, reinvent or perpetuate an engaged poetics, the realities of loss and military defeat epitomised in the regicide inevitably bring a committed verse practice itself into question. An unpublished elegy attributed to Sir Henry Skipwith of Cotes, Leicestershire confronted this issue, finding in Charles’s death the conditions necessary for a corresponding dismemberment and decay in the late King’s loyal subjects: Alas what are wee now that hee is gone, though wee are number still wee are a lone, and so astonish’t from our selues remayne that few know where to meet themselues againe. For by his death wee are all sett awry, and by our false positions wee belye and mishape goodnes…1
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See Mildmay Fane, Otia Sacra, ed. Donald Friedman (New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975), iii.
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For Moseley’s significance and allegiances see John Curtis Reed, ‘Humphrey Moseley, Publisher’, Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers, 2 (1927–30), 57–142, and Potter, 19-22.
See D. H. Woodward, ed., The Poems and Translations of Robert Fletcher (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1970). The evidence for an acquaintance between Mayne and Fletcher is their mutual connection with the Hickes family of Shipston-on-Stour. Ex Otto Negotium contained an epitaph on William Hickes, who died in 1652. William’s father, Francis, was a translator of Lucian, and an acquaintance of Brian Duppa: after Francis’s death in 1631 his translations were published by his other son Thomas, an M. A. and chaplain of Christ Church, in an edition dedicated to Duppa (see Francis Hickes, Certaine Select Dialogues of Lucian (Oxford, 1634), sig. A2r-v, and Fletcher, Poems and Translations, 269-70). Mayne, of course, was a protégé of Duppa and a Christ Church contemporary of Thomas Hickes, and shared the enthusiasm for Lucian shown by Francis and his son: Mayne’s own translations, made in the late 1630s, were published with those of Hickes under the title Part of Lucian Made English from the Originall (Oxford, 1664).
Steven Zwicker, Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649–1689 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1993), 63.
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Loxley, J. (1997). ‘Like committed Linnets’: Polemic and the Poetry of Retirement. In: Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389199_6
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