Authority Cited: [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
Author name and dates: Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
BKG Bio-tweet: Wit; playwright; libertine; politician (House Speaker); light and satiric poetry; SJ quotes poem: Royal Knotter
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Sedley cites in vol.1 of the 1755 Dict. No Sedley cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sedley title SJ used is unknown; the poem may have appeared also in other Sedly collections.]
The poetical vvorks of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar. and his speeches in Parliamemt, with large additions, never before made publick, Published from the original MS. by Capt. Ayloffe. To which is perfixed, The Earl of Rochester's mountebank speech, on Tower Hill, With a new miscelany of poems by several of the most eminent hands. As also a compleat collection of all the remarkable speeches in both Houses of Parliament: ...
The Second Edition, 1710, London, printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by James Woodward in St. Christophers Church-Yard, and John Morphew near Stationers Hall.
Author name and dates: Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
BKG Bio-tweet: Wit; playwright; libertine; politician (House Speaker); light and satiric poetry; SJ quotes poem: Royal Knotter
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Sedley cites in vol.1 of the 1755 Dict. No Sedley cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sedley title SJ used is unknown; the poem may have appeared also in other Sedly collections.]
The poetical vvorks of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar. and his speeches in Parliamemt, with large additions, never before made publick, Published from the original MS. by Capt. Ayloffe. To which is perfixed, The Earl of Rochester's mountebank speech, on Tower Hill, With a new miscelany of poems by several of the most eminent hands. As also a compleat collection of all the remarkable speeches in both Houses of Parliament: ...
The Second Edition, 1710, London, printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by James Woodward in St. Christophers Church-Yard, and John Morphew near Stationers Hall.
- The Royal Knotter, by Sir Chearls Sedley; knot (p.146, Sidley in 1755 Dict., Sedley in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: SJ condenses the stanza quoted from six lines to four, perhaps from memory.] Dict.:
- Sedley (no work cited); afeard (no quote; SJ comments: "It is now obsolete; the last authour whom I have found using it, is Sedley.")
Happy we who from such queens are freed,
That were always telling beads:
But here’s a queen when she rides abroad
Is always knotting threads.
Text:
Bless'd we! Who from such Queens are freed,
Who by vain superstition led,
Are always telling Beads;
But, here's a Queen now, Thanks to God,
Who, when she rides in coach abroad,
Is always knotting Threads.