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Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Mackbeth Act 1 Sc. the L.
Date(s): 1606 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice
finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with
English ones that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs
with English ones that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Somers's Tracts, vol.XV or Coll.4 vol.3 p.314; [Latin]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the money value or resale worth of everything, said to be from
Somers's Tracts, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with English ones
that answer to them".
Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
c.1670
Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Epigram on time and universal transience
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Dialogue on mortality between death and a lady (three speeches with names
prefixed), he claiming her without delay, she protesting her youth and beauty
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Attribution: Ro. James
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Comparison of the transience of life to a bubble and a flower, particularly
the marigold, seeing also hope of a future life
Title: [Latin epigraph from Horace]
Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Attribution: Sir W. Rawleigh; [Latin]
Date(s): 1614 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: The legend of Jove descending on Danae as a shower of gold, translating
Horace, Odes, III.16. From Raleigh's History of the World, II.13
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1692
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the transience of human youth and beauty. From stanza 3 of Prior's Ode of
1692.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Extract from Prior's humorous verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, here
fancifully describing his own life in the country
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, counselling that a virtuous life will bring heavenly reward.
Translating preceding Latin verses, and possibly relating to the preceding
record of the death of Anne Bois (or Boys) in 1680.
Title: Dr Heylen on his present of a bible to a friend
Author: Heylyn, Peter
Attribution: Dr Heylen
Date(s): 1628 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Commending the Bible to his future wife, urging her not only to read it but
to sing the psalms, which will bring spiritual profit.