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Author: Carkesse, James, fl. 1679.
Title: Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the Doctors patient extraordinary.
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Print source: Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the Doctors patient extraordinary.
Carkesse, James, fl. 1679.
London: [s.n.], 1679.
Subject terms:
Allen, Thomas, d. 1684.
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Literature and mental illness.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34243.0001.001
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TO THE Kings Majesty.
TO THE DUKE, GENERAL OF THE Artillery Ground, Overlookt by Finnes-burrough Mad-house, Where I was Confin'd.
To His Royal Highness.
TO THE DUKE After my Enlargement.
Presented to the DUKE ON NEW-YEARS-DAY.
THE Poetical History OF Finnesbury Mad-house.
His Apology.
On his being Seiz'd on for a Mad∣man, only for having endeavoured to reduce Dissenters unto the CHURCH.
On the late Horrid Plot.
The Cross Match.
Jackstraws Progress.
Nullum Magnum Ingenium (absit verbo invidia) sine mixturâ dementiae.
THE Duke of Grafton, Looking into his Cloyster, And kindly asking him; How he did.
The Doctors Advice.
The Patient Replies.
The New Distinction.
An Inscription To Madam Frazer, When he sent her some of his Verses.
Pronounc'd at the taking of a VOMIT.
A Dose for the Doctor.—facit indignatio versum.
The Riddle.
PRESENTED TO HER GRACE, THE DUCHESSE of PORTS MOVTH.
HIS Rule of Behaviour: If you are Civil, I am Sober.
Ad Apollinem Poeseos & Medicinae Praesidem.
Poet no Lunatick.
To a Tinmans Wife, Visiting him when he lay in Chains.
Ad Medicum de praescripto Vomitu.
To Mr. Doctor, on his giving him A VOMIT.
To the Worshipful Sir William Turner, President of the Hospital of Bethlem.
THE Patients Advice TO THE DOCTOR.
Presented to His Grace the Duke of Monmouth.
On Report of the Duke of Monmouth coming to see the Place.
Ad Medicum, se ab oculis omnium removeri, jubentem.
On the Ladies looking into his Cell.
To a Lady, who was very kind to him in the place.
To a Friend that sent him a Box.
To another sending him a Chair.
poem
To the same.
ON Madam Gwyn's Saying of Her Self, She was the only Protestant Mistress.
TO Mr. Stackhouse, Presenting me with a PERIWIG.
Poets are Mad.
On the Doctors telling him, that 'till he left off making Verses, he was not fit to be discharg'd.
On the Doctors letting him Blood.
The Mistake.
Made the 13. of November, Being a Fast-Day On Account of the Plot.
ON A Fanatick Ropemaker.
TO THE LADY IANE LEVISON GOWER, AND Mrs. CATHERINE NEWPORT, each giving him Six pence.
To a Friend, upon his sending him Venison to BEDLAM.
Presented to the Right Honourable EDWARD SEYMOUR, Esq His ever Honoured Master.
His Petition to Mr. Speaker.
On his mistaking the Name OF Sir Gabriel Silvius, Presented to his Lady.
The Poet's modest and reasonable Expostulation, with the non-Infallible Pope of the Lunatiques, on be∣half of the sober Parson, hitherto mistaken, and misjudged by Religio Medici.
Mr. Dr. Mr. D▪
THE Founders Intention.
THE Porter, a Prince.
ON Mrs. Moniments Giving him a Visit at Bedlam.
To his Friends, that gave in Security, according to the Custome of the Hospital.
On the late PLOT.
Dr. Titus Oates, Anagramma, Testis Ovat.