English Poetry Database.
Sample of the data
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<poetgrp>
<cbel>JAC</cbel>
<poet id=abbot>
<name>John Abbot</name>
<nameinv>Abbot, John</nameinv>
<alias>John Rivers</alias>
<dates born=1588 died=1650 cert=n>1588?–1650</dates>
</poet>
<chad>
<header>
<file><citn>
<title>Abbot: Devovt Rhapsodies [1647]: a machine‐readable transcript</title>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<date>1992</date>
<publ>Chadwyck‐Healey</publ>
<series>English Poetry Full‐Text Database</series>
<pubnote>(c) 1992 Chadwyck‐Healey. Do not export or print from this database without checking
the Copyright Conditions to see what is permitted. </pubnote>
</citn></file>
<source>
<citn>
<poet>
<name>John Abbot</name>
<nameinv>Abbot, John</nameinv>
<alias>John Rivers</alias>
<dates born=1588 died=1650 cert=n>1588?–1650</dates>
</poet>
<title>Devovt Rhapsodies: In Which, Is Treated, of the Excellencie of Divine Scriptvres ... By J: A:
Rivers</title>
<city>London</city>
<publ>Printed by Thomas Harper, for Daniel Frere [etc.]</publ>
<date>[1647]</date>
<desc>[6], 80 p.</desc>
<pubnote>Preliminaries and introductory matter omitted</pubnote>
</citn>
</source>
<acc.no>1.1318</acc.no>
<ID>AbbotRhaps</ID>
</header>
<doc>
<epigraph lang=latin r=italic>
<l>Hæc omnia Liber Vitæ (Continet) & Testamentum Altissimi, & agnitio Veritatis.
</l>
<signed r=smcap>Eccles. 44.</signed>
</epigraph>
<pb>
<div>
<div>
<poem rhymed=y type=commend poet="Fortescue, G." r=italic>
<head r=roman>To his honoured Friend, Mr. <hi r=italic>Rivers</hi>,
<subhead>Upon his Holy Rhapsodies.</subhead>
</head>
<l ln=1><hi r=smcapit>VVho</hi>'s this? who like the rosy‐fingred Morne, </l>
<l ln=2>Is thus from Mountaine unto Mountaine borne: </l>
<l ln=3>Whose mystick locks charg'd with the drops of nights, </l>
<l ln=3>And cannot with impurity be stain'd, </l>
<l ln=4>Or with obsceane conceptions be prophain'd.</l>
<l ln=5>But in <hi r=roman>Meanders</hi>, holy turnes, and windes, </l>
<l ln=6>Delightfull to thine owne, and Readers mindes. </l>