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Title: A hymne to Christ the Mesiah
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, in praise of Christ
Title: An hymne to the Holy Ghost
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, in praise of the Holy Ghost
Title: A songe of praises
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, in praise of God.
Title: Honny-dropps
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, denouncing sin and praising God
Title: Of vertue
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Advocating virtue and praising God
Title: Of patience and temperance
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Advocating the virtues of patience and temperance
Title: Of anger
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On the emotion of anger
Title: On the fatal day Jan. 30 1648
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Regretting the death by execution of Charles I. At end, "Curae loquuntur leues ingentes stupent" (?).
Title: Of impartial fate
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On man's relationship to fate. At end, "Conjugi Diata sequuntur".
Title: To the Lady Cary upon her verses on my deare wife
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Answer to Lady Cary's lament for the death of Fairfax's wife, thanking her and expressing his own grief. Begins, "Madam".
Title: Epitaph on a younge gentlewoman, Mrs A Va. deceased
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Epitaph or elegiac lament on the death of a young lady (probably a member of the Vane family), praising her virtues
Title: Shortness of life
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Reflections on death and the shortness and transience of life
Title: Life and death compared
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Reflections on human life and death. Followed by a Latin epigram on the subject.
Title: Of a faire wife to Coregio
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Warning to one 'Coregio' about the dangers involved in having a beautiful wife
Title: Of Beauty
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Reflections on the transience of beauty and the trouble it can cause
Title: Upon a patch't face
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On how virtuous women have no beauty spots
Title: Upon a virago
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On how a wanton woman can never be the mother of a modest daughter
Title: Upon an ill husband
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Contrasting the harsh behaviour of human husbands towards their wives with the peaceful behaviour of male animals towards their female mates
Title: Upon a fountaine
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Comparing the quick passage of water through a fountain with the transience of human or worldly glory
Title: Upon Appleton House
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On Nun Appleton House, Yorkshire, reflecting that it is no more than an inn on the way to a heavenly home
Title: Upon the horse which his Majesty rode upon att his coronation
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On the horse ridden by Charles II on the day of his coronation, ironically noting how fortune has in contrast brought its breeder low. At end, "Bridla-dore, anglice A Goulden Bridle".
Title: Upon Mr Stanley's Booke of Philosophy supposinge itt the Worke of his tutor W. F.
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Apology for having mistakenly attributed a work of philosophy to his tutor, W.F., instead of its rightful author, Mr Stanley, giving as a reason the power of platonic love between the two men. At end, "These verses are entred upon Mr Stanleys
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Title: Vulgar proverbs
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Collection of short proverbs, or epigrams. Towards the end, "(The ill dozen are omitted)".