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Title: Air XIII
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Thirteenth song in play 'The Country Attorney. A Musical Farce of One Act', an old man's declaration that he is as good a lover as a young man
Title: Air XIV
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Fourteenth song in play 'The Country Attorney. A Musical Farce of One Act', in which a married woman pretends to be shocked by the conduct of the old, would-be lover she is duping
Title: Air XV
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Fifteenth song in play 'The Country Attorney. A Musical Farce of One Act', in which a daughter asks her father to approve of
her love for a young man
Title: Air XVI
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Sixteenth and last song in play 'The Country Attorney. A Musical Farce of One Act', a duet by the lovers expressing their love for one another
Title: Prologue spoken by Mr Sparkes to the play of The Provoked Husband at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden for the benefit of the widow of the late Mr Ryan comedian
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 1761
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Prologue to a performance of Colley Cibber's play 'The Provoked Husband' in April 1761, asking for charity for the widow of the actor Lacy Ryan
Title: The flowing bowls. Tune, To all ye ladies now at land etc.
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Satirical song advocating drink rather than the ambitions of the courtier, the politician, the patriot, the doctor and others; includes reference to Frederick North and William Murray, Earl of Mansfield
Title: The countryman and Jupiter, a fable. Occasioned by a general fast being appointed, on the alarm of a French invasion.
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Interprets a fable by Aesop, in which a countryman, on asking Jove to help right his overturned cart, is told by the god first to become worthy of help, as an allegory for the need for Britain to defend herself against France
Title: The favourite bird
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: In praise of Sir Edward Hawke, first Baron Hawke, making out the hawk is Britain's favourite bird
Title: An occasional prologue intended to be spoke at the opening of the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden after having been shut up for a week on account of the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 1765
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Prologue to be read at the Theatre Royal in November 1765 following the theatre's closure following the death of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, commenting ironically on the actors' loss of pay rather than that of the Duke
Title: A cure for the head-ach
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: First part of a humorous poem about an Irishman suffering from a headache after a drinking session, incomplete owing to loss of following leaves
Title: [unknown]
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: End of poem or song comprising two line chorus and four line air urging that hunting give way to fighting at the behest of Great George, presumably George III. Incomplete owing to loss of preceding leaf.
Title: Philander and Daphne
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Pastoral dialogue in which Philander invites Daphne into a lover's grove, she resisting until they agree on marriage since Strephon had betrayed Laura there