Mistris Parliament presented in her bed, after the sore travaile and hard labour which she endured last weeek, in the birth of her monstrous off-spring, the childe of deformation. The hopefull fruit of her seven yeers teeming, and a most precious babe of grace. With the severall discourses between Mrs. Sedition, Mrs. Schisme, Mrs. Synod her dry-nurse, Mrs. Iealousie, and others her gossips. / By Mercurius Melancholicus.
dc.contributor | Text Creation Partnership, |
dc.contributor.author | Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648. |
dc.coverage.placeName | London |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-01 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-27T07:47:52Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-27T07:47:52Z |
dc.date.created | 1648 |
dc.date.issued | 2011-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:A89188 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/A89188 |
dc.description.abstract | A satire in the form of a play. "Mercurius Melancholius" was a pseudonym used by a number of Royalist writers including Martin Parker and John Crouch. A variant edition has corrected the spelling of "weeek" to "weeke". Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 10th London". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
dc.format.extent | Approx. 18 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.format.mimetype | text/xml |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.isformatof | https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=eebo-99859595e |
dc.relation.ispartof | EEBO-TCP |
dc.rights | To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. |
dc.subject.lcsh | Political satire, English -- 17th century. |
dc.subject.lcsh | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. |
dc.title | Mistris Parliament presented in her bed, after the sore travaile and hard labour which she endured last weeek, in the birth of her monstrous off-spring, the childe of deformation. The hopefull fruit of her seven yeers teeming, and a most precious babe of grace. With the severall discourses between Mrs. Sedition, Mrs. Schisme, Mrs. Synod her dry-nurse, Mrs. Iealousie, and others her gossips. / By Mercurius Melancholicus. |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 82226 |
files.count | 4 |
identifier.stc | Wing M2284 |
identifier.stc | Thomason E441_21 |
identifier.stc | ESTC R14014 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
Files for this item
Download all local files for this item (80.3 KB)

- Name
- A89188.epub
- Size
- 20.08 KB
- Format
- EPUB
- Description
- Version of the work for e-book readers in the EPUB format

- Name
- A89188.html
- Size
- 24.82 KB
- Format
- HTML
- Description
- Version of the work for web browsers

- Name
- A89188.xml
- Size
- 35.38 KB
- Format
- XML
- Description
- Version of the work in the original source TEI XML file produced from the Text Creation Partnership version