Early Modern Whale

 I spend a lot of time looking at these things, so I posted a picasa web album. And as a break from the dusty dead, another of orchids. The ...

The OED cites this phrase from Sir Philip Sidney writing circa 1586: a 1586 SIDNEY Arcadia II. (1867) 190 Yet he durst not but kiss ...

The 1638 Folio of Suckling’s Aglaura on EEBO, with its alternate Act V, also preserves an answer song to Suckling’s famous lyric, ‘Wh...

I am always interested in the stray lives that occasionally get mentioned in 17 th century texts, people otherwise unrecorded, making ...

Robert Gell made much of the subject of my last post, the Marcle Hill landslip, in his sermon to the Society of Astrologers, publish...

Down for a weekend in Herefordshire, stopping at this very pleasant place, http://hallendhouse.co.uk/ Some part of what George Sandys ...

This chap is William Ramesey, and the amazing bonnet he is wearing was probably designed as an extra container or sump for the overf...

My pictures are from The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the...

The yellovv book, or, A serious letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration, the first day of May, 1656 which she is d...