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Title: The careless lover
Author: Wither, George
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1622 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Expressing lack of interest in a woman's virtues or beauty if she takes no
interest in him
Title: O p.s. a great man (?)
Author: Wither, George
Date(s): 1622 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 57
Contents: Expressing lack of interest in a woman's virtues if she takes no
interest in him. Stanza 1 of Wither's poem.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wither, George
Date(s): 1635 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the heavenly rewards of a good life, from Wither's 'Britain's Remembrancer'; another slightly variant copy appears at the foot of the page, followed by "Amen lord give me store of goods you may behould (?) and you may ...".
Title: On the labours of Hercules
Author: Wither, George
Date(s): 1622 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Listing the twelve labours of Hercules and humorously suggesting that the feat of making love to fifty virgins in one night, also attributed to him, would have involved even greater effort