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Title: [unknown]
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: On the folly of appreciating flowers more than grass; last two lines of Southwell's 'Scorne not the least'
Title: Losse in delayes
Author: Southwell, Robert
Attribution: Henricus Gould [at end]
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem warning against procrastination in doing good and delay in combatting evil
Title: Loves garden griefe
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the consequences of enjoying the material, worldly pleasures of a life of vanity, comparing it to a garden tended by Satan
Title: Scorne not the least
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem affirming that the humble and weak will be given their reward whatever the misery they suffer
Title: Lewd love is loss
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the perils to the soul of human, secular love
Title: Time goes by turnes
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the mixture of fortunes in human life such that no happiness is unalloyed, nor misery total
Title: Davids peccavi
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem in which King David expresses repentance for his sins caused by vain fancies and folly
Title: The burning babe
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on Christmas Day describing the vision of a burning babe, the Christ child expressing his love for mankind. The final lines are repeated in another hand, below.
Title: Part of St Peters plaint
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 159- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem in which St Peter expresses remorse and repentance for his sins, asking forgiveness; extracted from Southwell's 'St Peter's Complaint'
Title: [unknown]
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the mixture of fortunes in human life such that no happiness is unalloyed, nor misery total; extract from Southwell's 'Time goes by turnes'