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Title: Verses made by him
Author: Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex
Attribution: Ro. Essex
Date(s): 1598?
Manuscript: Lt q 57
Contents: On the desirability of retreat and religious contemplation
Title: Verses on Monsieur's Departure out of England
Author: Elizabeth I
Attribution: Queen Elizabeth
Date(s): 159-?
Manuscript: Lt q 57
Contents: The Queen grieves for a suitor who has recently left England (possibly Francis, Duke of Alencon)
Title: A perfect patterne of true felicity, framed to find the way of eternity [i.e. BCMSV 4621]. Verses [Verses concerning true felicity (index)]
Author: Tusser, Thomas
Date(s): 1580 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: Religious poem urging contentment with the gifts of god
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: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Shakespear
Date(s): 1595 ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the art of poetry, used as epigraph to Dallaway's collection of his own
verse; from Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", V.1.
Title: The praises of Mopsa daughter to Damietas
Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 2
Contents: Pastoral poem describing the beauty of Mopsa, from Sidney's "Arcadia", Book
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