Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letters Addressed From London to Sir Joseph Williamson, Vol. 2 of 2: While Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Cologne in the Years 1673 and 1674
The poem here referred to is one ascribed to Andrew Marvell, his Advice to a Painter. This passage fixes the date of the poem, which the Rev. Mr. Grosart leaves in doubt. The references in the poem to the projected marriage of the Duke of York clearly show that the poem was published in the autumn of 1673. But a line mentioning Lord Danby, as it has been usually printed, would require that the poem were published at least a year later, as Osborne was not made Earl of Danby till June 1674. The line in question has been usually printed, With Father Patrick, Danby, and with Teague. Talbot should be substituted for Danby, which is unquestionably wrong: Talbot is in the edition of 1689.
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