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Title: Pleasure
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, recommending a
life of pleasure free from the cares of learning and study but realising that
this will not bring perfect happiness
Title: Musick
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the
power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but
finding its effects short-lived
Title: Drinking
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, rejecting
drinking as a source of comfort to the soul, and regretting the jests and
revels of the previous night
Title: Man's being
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, reflecting
whether the soul is simply a more refined part of the body or a divine spark
which at death will return to heaven
Title: Misery of life
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, on the
general unhappiness of human life
Title: Human learning
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", I, on the uesless
presumption of human wisdom, especially of knowledge of the universe
Title: Vanity of life
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, reflecting on
the transitoriness of human life, the uncertain fate of the soul, and
helplessness in the face of destiny
Title: A prayer
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, a prayer to
God for guidance and strength in facing the temptations and cares of human
life; religious
Title: Charity, a paraphrase, on the 13. chapter of the 1. of Corinthans
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the nature of charity, praising its beneficial influence.
Paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 13.
Title: Hans Carvel. De la Fontaine imitated. Adapted to the E. of Ranelagh. 1700
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1700 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic tale about an impotent husband and his young wife, freely adapted from
La Fontaine, "Contes", II.xii; here said to apply to Richard Jones, Earl of
Ranelagh
Title: To Chloe, weeping
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.180
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: On how the world of nature joins in weeping with his beloved,
yet her tears do not soften her hardheartedness towards him
Title: Cupid mistaken
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Oblique praise of the beauty of a young woman, in which Cupid
shoots his arrow at his mother Venus, having mistaken the one
for the other