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The high and mightie commendation of the vertue of a pot of good ale : full of wit without offence, of mirth without obscenities of pleasure without scurrilitie, and of good content without distaste : whereunto is added the valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock / written by Thomas Randall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages)
- Other Title:
- Valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and J. Wright, 1642.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Illustrated t.p.
- In verse.
- Hazlitt considers Randall and Thomas Randolph the same person but B. M. lists them as two separate people.
- "This facetious piece was more probably by Taylor, the water poet" Cf. Hazlitt.
- Entered in Wing under Thomas Randolph. See, however, Randolph, Thomas, Poems ... edition by G. Thorn-Drury, pages xxii. Where "The high and mightie" is not included as a poem of Randolph's.
- "The valiant battell ..." is by Robert Wild. Cf. Games and gamesters of the restoration (1930) pp. 112-114.
- Wing entry imprint reads "F. Coules."
- Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 252:E153, no 20) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing R239A
- Hazlitt Handbook 497
- OCLC:
- 12680199
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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