Union First Line Index of English Verse

13^th-19^th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

First Line: If shadows are [be] a [the] picture's excellence

Author (Last name, First): Poole, Walton?

Title: `On a gentlewoman [Beatrice Brydges, Mrs. Henry Poole?] that thought herself not fair because her...hair and eyes were black'

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Last Line: The black mark would I hit but not the white.

Library: Bod

Shelfmark: Rawl. poet. 142

Folio: f. 27

Ref Nbr: Crum I0945

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Names Mentioned: Poole, Beatrice (nee Brydges)

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