Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet in 1702. The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life. His reputation as a wit and dissolute was partially responsible for the Sedleys of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". His most famous song, "Phyllis is My Only Joy", is much more widely known now than the author's name. While Sedley chiefly produced light amatory verse and pastoral dialogues in the 1670s, he turned to satirical epigrams in the 1680s and 1690s. His "Epigrams: or, Court Characters" are modelled on the works of Martial. In his epigram "To Nysus", for example, Sedley describes the function of satire
Amelia of Masovia death on 13 March 1425, Amelia returned to Masovia. She was buried in either Płock Cathedral or a near Dominican convent. Amelia of Masovia Amelia of Masovia (pl: "Amelia mazowiecka"; 1397/98 - after 17 May 1434), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Masovian branch. She was the fourth daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra, a daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. In 1407 William II, Margrave of Meissen asked her hand in marriage. The wedding by proxy took place on 16