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Brotherton Collection85
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse85

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Southwell, Robert10
Spenser, Edmund7
Shakespeare, William6
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The Comidy of Errors4
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Ch. Fitzgeoffrey ... Wrote An Epic On Sir Francis Drake2
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INDEX/BCMSV/109.1
15-- ?
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
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INDEX/BCMSV/1046
15-- ?
Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs
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INDEX/BCMSV/1048
15-- ?
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
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INDEX/BCMSV/1121
1590 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", II.xi.21-22, comparing death to an archer armed with
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INDEX/BCMSV/1148
1590 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", II.vi.3, describing the lady Mirth
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INDEX/BCMSV/1161
1590 (published) 1596 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", III.xii.11, and part of IV.x.16, describing the dreadful
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INDEX/BCMSV/1164
1590 (published)
Part of "The Faerie Queene", I.ix.35, describing the appearance of Despair
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INDEX/BCMSV/1165
1590 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", II.xii.70, describing the music heard at the Bower of
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INDEX/BCMSV/1166
1596 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the
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INDEX/BCMSV/1167
1590 and 1596 (published)
"The Faerie Queene", II.vii,40 (part)-41 and VI.vii.41,43, describing the
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INDEX/BCMSV/1276
1591 (published)
Lament of resignation to a life of solitary sorrow and despair, translating
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INDEX/BCMSV/1700
1595 ?
On the art of poetry, used as epigraph to Dallaway's collection of his own