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Title: Epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1624 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph or tombstone inscription lamenting the deaths of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and his son James, Lord Wriothesley, in the Low Countries in 1624, as if spoken by their tomb. Cf. BCMSV 3408, 3409, 3410.
Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: Pallas with the Muses
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.
Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious epigram on freewill and divine grace, attributed to St Bernard; translation
Title: On the Lord Lovelace's triumphant march into Oxford 1688
Author: Smith, John, 1662-1717
Date(s): 1688 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic ballad on the occupation of Oxford for the future William III by John,
3rd Baron Lovelace
Title: Cato's soliloquy. Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture; in his hand
Plato's book on the immortality of the soul. A drawn sword on the table by
him.
Author: Addison, Joseph
Date(s): 1713 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Cato's soliloquy from Addison's play "Cato," V.1, arguing for the immortality
of the soul after death, while contemplating suicide. At end, "23rd December
1740, B.Coles"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Attribution: B.C.; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
verses
Title: A usefull meditation
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy
death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and
the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January
1740/1."
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 1741 ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
Coles, 1 January 1740/1."
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
a grocer," included in his autobiography.
Title: [unknown]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lines said to be engraved on Elizabeth I's pocket pistol presented to her by
Philip of Spain, displayed on Dover pier, claiming to be able to shoot as far
as France; included in Coles's prose autobiography.
Title: The king of hearts
Author: Mainwaring, Arthur
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
Warrington, for his ostentatious support for William III
Title: The snail
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A Welch curate
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,
"25th February 1740/1".
Title: To Miss Walter of Grosvenor-Square on her birth-day, June 17, 1766
Author: Scott, William
Attribution: William Scott, St Sepulchre's, Snow-Hill, June 16, 1766 [at end]
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Birthday poem for a Miss Harriet Walter, praising her virtues, recalling the
previous year's event and anticipating the next
Title: A pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their
contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the
respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a
marginal alternative reading, annotated
Title: A ballad
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Saturday] October 17, [17]67
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more
important than physical beauty
Title: Epilogue to the Widow'd Wife, spoken by Mrs Clive
Author: Kenrick, William ?
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Friday] Dec. 11, 1767
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epilogue to William Kenrick's play "The Widow'd Wife", urging the audience to
continue their patronage, and pretending, like a doctor, to take the pulse of
their reactions to the performance. Spoken by the actress Kitty Clive.
Title: A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was
performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Copied from the first (originally) plain leaf of F. Vansleb's Travels printed
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord
Russell in 1683. One line corrected and signed G.S.