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Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical criticism of the disrespect accorded to the practice of swearing;
extract from Butler's "Hudibras", II.2.191-200
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical criticism of fashionable methods of trying to win a woman's love;
extract from Butler's "Hudibras", II.1.855-65
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical criticism of those who keep their consciences hidden except when
they want to argue; extract from Butler's "Hudibras", II.1.5-8
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical criticism of Quakers for refusing to swear oaths, and for following
their private understanding of conscience; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
II.2.219-30
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical criticism of the practice of influencing witnesses before legal
cases come to trial, and of packing juries; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
II.2.359-72
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Epigram comparing honour to a bubble, completely destroyed even if only
slightly damaged; extract from Butler's "Hudibras", II.2.385-8
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On a cobbler who could also teach Christian doctrine; extract from Butler's
"Hudibras", II.2.431-2
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on the prevalence of hypocrisy, as a sin practised by almost everyone;
extract from Butler's "Hudibras",III.1.1221-36
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on the Church of England; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
III.1.1285-90
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on Puritan religious attitudes; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
III.2.313-14
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satirical proverbial lines on marriage; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
III.3.685-8
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on the practice of swearing oaths in courts of law; extract from
Butler's "Hudibras", III.3.701-06
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Attribution: Hudibras
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Couplet from Butler's "Hudibras", III.1.163-4 (the knight to the lady)
followed by a comic expression of love in a different verse-form and seemingly
not by Butler
Title: On mony
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1664 (published) and 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on money being the driving force behind all the world's affairs,
including love. Assembled from extracts from Butler's "Hudibras", namely
II.3.851-4, III.2.1327-8, II.1.512-8, III:The lady's answer to the
knight:131-4, II.1.443-6, and II.1.463-6
Commonplace book of verse and prose
1680s
Contains three items of English verse, Samuel Butler's prose "The loyal satyrist" or "Mercurius menippeus", and (written from back, inverted) "Mr Adrian Battans service / Te deum", with music.