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Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6332

170-?

Moralising lines, urging upon children the pursuit of study

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INDEX/BCMSV/6333

170-?

Moralising poem, urging upon children the pursuit of study (and warning against the dangers of excessively 'following play').

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INDEX/BCMSV/6334

170-?

On the theme of intellectual humility.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6335

170-?

Poem describing the inequalities of life, and urging contentment

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INDEX/BCMSV/6337

1705 (head of poem)

On the importance of humility and contentment.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6338

1700?

Epitaph on the clergyman William Willets, concerning the consequences of human vanity and reality of divine judgement

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INDEX/BCMSV/6339

170-?

Praise of Jesus; speaker begs for deliverance. EMANUEL in margins down the side. Followed by a prayer in prose.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6340

170-?

Acrostic epitaph, envisioning the body of Matthew Mead as a cabinet and his soul as a jewel, with the two separated by death but conjoined again in resurrection; succeeded by Latin version of the same

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INDEX/BCMSV/6342

170-?

Epitaph idealising, in religious terms, female fidelity and chastity; followed by corresponding Latin couplet. Title preceded by 93, as if taken from a collection

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INDEX/BCMSV/6343

170-?

Epitaph on the different virtues of a deceased wife. Title preceded by 99, as if taken from a collection

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INDEX/BCMSV/6344

170-?

Epitaph on a mother who is seen as renewed in her son. Title preceded by 103, as if taken from a collection

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INDEX/BCMSV/6346

170-?

Epitaph on the reuniting of lovers in death