Alexander Hume

Standard Name: Hume, Alexander

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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Melvill
In early 1599 Alexander Hume dedicated to EM his Hymnes, or Sacred Songs, Wherein the Right Use of Poesy May be Espied. He calls her a tender youth, sad, solitare [though he knew she...
Literary responses Elizabeth Melvill
The minister Alexander Hume offered praise in print of EM 's compositiones so copious, so pregnant, so spirituall, which he felt sure she owed to the gift of God.
Hume dated his dedication 16 February...

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Hume, Alexander. Hymnes, or Sacred Songs, Wherein the Right Use of Poesy May be Espied. Robert Waldegrave, 1599.