A triple paradox: affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint, slander and poverty, the three grand engines of the world, the flesh and the devil. / By Major George Wither, who, now beleagured by their forces throws out unto them this defiance. The said paradox maintains these particulars, that confinement is more safe than liberty, slander more advantageous than praise, poverty more profitable than riches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wither, George, 1588-1667.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--Great Britain--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Imprisonment.

Libel and slander--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Libel and slander.

Poverty--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Poverty.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Triple paradox; wherein are asserted, these particulars, that imprisonment, is more safe than libery, slander, more advantageous than praise, poverty, more profitable than riches

Geo. Withers' work's

George Wither's works

Fingerprint:

tho-s.s, ).vy MuAn (3) 1661 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author, 1661.

Notes:

This edition is gathered in 4's; line 11 of title ends with "throws".

The "s" in "advantageous" failed to print.

"A word on the behalf of Mr. Zachary Crofton, prisoner in the Tower": p. [74]-[76]

B3 is misnumbered A3.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Vaticinia poetica, or rather, A fragment of some presages, long since written, and, also of some lately composed ... London : Imprinted, for the year MCDLXVI, to be reckoned from about the year of our Lord XXXIIII, and are to be sold by Edward Blackmore, at his shop in St. Pauls Church yard, [1655?]. [Item 6 of 9]

OCLC:

23629872