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Title: [unknown]
Author: Cleveland, John
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Witty satire on the counterfeit nature of protectors of kingdoms, no doubt
with reference to Oliver Cromwell
Title: On a parliament fart
Author: Hoskins, John
Date(s): 162- or 163- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Witty lines on a fart in the House of Commons
Title: On Christ Church Windows, Oxon', by Mr J.C., 1640
Author: Cleveland, John ?
Attribution: Mr J.C.
Date(s): 1640 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 32
Contents: Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural
scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ
Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the painter's art. Followed
(f.12r) by a list of "Stories ment
Title: Epitaph on P. Henry (suppos'd to ha' been poison'd)
Author: Fletcher, Giles, the younger ?
Date(s): 1612 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epitaph on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I, the tombstone
expressing its grief and keeping secret the name of the deceased
Title: On the Spring
Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden
Date(s): 1623 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Apparently urging a friend, in time of Spring, to abandon his spiritual
winter and think of the springtime of Heaven
Title: Solitude
Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden
Date(s): 1623 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the true happines of the peace and solitude of the country contrasted with
the noise and intrigue of the court; lacking two lines of the original sonnet
Title: Peace of mind
Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden
Date(s): 1625 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Comparing the inability of a besieger to destroy a city completely with the
peace of mind still left the writer after all the troubles of life
Title: On the conquest of Mexico
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1664
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of the prologue to Dryden and Howard's play "The Indian Queen", in which
the natives of Mexico realise that the Spanish conquest has brought their
idyllic paradisal life to an end
Title: Alexander's feast
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extracts from Dryden's poem on Alexander the Great's feast after his victory
over Persia, demonstrating the power of music to sway emotions before the time
of St Cecilia
Title: Dispair
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1696 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Pastoral love song from D'Urfey's play "The Comical History of Don Quixote",
Part III, moving from joyful anticipation to despair, contemplating suicide
and madness
Title: The mad-man
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of the mad Cardenio's song from Act 4 of D'Urfey's play "The Comical
History of Don Quixote", Part 1, expressing his anger, despair and love
Title: Shade
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1695
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Description of a gloomy place devoid of all light and natural life;
the opening twelve lines of Congreve's "The Mourning Muse of Alexis",
elegiac lament for the death of Mary II.