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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: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs
with English ones that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Somers's Tracts, vol.XV or Coll.4 vol.3 p.314; [Latin]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the money value or resale worth of everything, said to be from
Somers's Tracts, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with English ones
that answer to them".
Title: Description of death
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.xi.21-22, comparing death to an archer armed with
deadly arrows, and describing his ghastly appearance
Title: Mirth
Author: Spenser, Edward
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.vi.3, describing the lady Mirth
Title: Danger
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1590 (published) 1596 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", III.xii.11, and part of IV.x.16, describing the dreadful
appearance of Danger
Title: Dispair
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of "The Faerie Queene", I.ix.35, describing the appearance of Despair
Title: Harmony
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.xii.70, describing the music heard at the Bower of
Bliss
Title: Discord
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1596 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the
underground dwelling-place of Ate, representing discord
Title: Disdain
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1590 and 1596 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.vii,40 (part)-41 and VI.vii.41,43, describing the
dreadful appearance and nature of Disdain
Title: Dispair
Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Date(s): 1591 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Lament of resignation to a life of solitary sorrow and despair, translating
the French of Desportes. Song, adapting Raleigh's sonnet.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Shakespear
Date(s): 1595 ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the art of poetry, used as epigraph to Dallaway's collection of his own
verse; from Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", V.1.