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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.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from
Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.1
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", I.1, in which Egeon
anticipates his death
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from
Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.1.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Advice to a husband to disguise his infidelity by pretence of virtue; extract
from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", III.2.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Expression of love; extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors",
III.2
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has
money. Cf. BCMSV 677.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: better to be poor and at liberty than rich and
in prison
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb, partly biblical: love your neighbour and do
him no wrong.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: action speaks louder than words
Title: A copy of verses by Queen Elizabeth on occasion of her first uneasiness
concerning Mary Queen of Scots
Author: Elizabeth I; Queen of England
Attribution: These verses were published in an old art of poesy printed at London in 1589
Date(s): 156- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Expressing concern and annoyance at rumours of plots against the state, and
determination to suppress them by force if necessary. Shorter and textually
different from the received versions, including Puttenham's, despite the
Introduction.
Title: The holy sisters
Author: Harington, Sir John
Date(s): 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Satire on religious women, who decide that standing
is the best alternative term to describe preaching. Probably a
bawdy pun. Among a collection of "Jacobite satyrs".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: friends are numerous only when a man has money. Cf. BCMSV 677.