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EARLY ENGLISH WIT, POETRY & SATIRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. The power of literary device was never more in its prime than during this period of history, where a wide array of political and religious satire mocked the status quo and poetry called humankind to transcend the rigors of daily life through love, God or principle. This series comments on historical patterns of the human condition that are still visible today. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Three new playes, Viz. The noble ingratitude. A pastoral-tragi-comedy. The enchanted lovers. A pastoral. The amorous fantasme. A tragi-comedy. All written by Sir Wil. Lower Knight Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662. With a portrait of Sir Lower preceeding the collective title page. Each of the plays has special t.p. with separate pagination and register. The imprint on these special t.p.'s is the same excepting the printer's name reads: "Fr. Kirkman". The enchanted lovers has an extra (cancelland?) title page with the imprint reading: "Hague: printed by Adrain Vlack. 1658.". Signatures: pi2 A-D12 E4, A-D12 E4, A-D12. [4], 101, [3]; 104; 96 p., 2 plates: London: Printed for F. Kirkman at the John Fletchers Head over against the Angel-Inn on the backside of St. Clements without Temple-Bar, 1661. Wing (2nd ed.) / L3319A English Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery ++++