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Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from
Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.1
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", I.1, in which Egeon
anticipates his death
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from
Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.1.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Advice to a husband to disguise his infidelity by pretence of virtue; extract
from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.2.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Expression of love; extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors",
III.2
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has
money. Cf. BCMSV 677.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: better to be poor and at liberty than rich and
in prison
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb, partly biblical: love your neighbour and do
him no wrong.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: action speaks louder than words
Title: A copy of verses by Queen Elizabeth on occasion of her first uneasiness
concerning Mary Queen of Scots
Author: Elizabeth I; Queen of England
Attribution: These verses were published in an old art of poesy printed at London in 1589
Date(s): 156- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Expressing concern and annoyance at rumours of plots against the state, and
determination to suppress them by force if necessary. Shorter and textually
different from the received versions, including Puttenham's, despite the
Introduction.
Title: The holy sisters
Author: Harington, Sir John
Date(s): 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Satire on religious women, who decide that standing
is the best alternative term to describe preaching. Probably a
bawdy pun. Among a collection of "Jacobite satyrs".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has money. Cf. BCMSV 677.