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Title: To Sir Richard Steel, on his Conscious Lovers
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A young lady
Date(s): 1722 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: In praise of Richard Steele's play "The Conscious Lovers" for teaching virute
so delightfully and for his skill in engaging the audience's emotions
Title: Thoughts on death
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A young lady
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Meditation on approaching death, expressing fear of God's judgement
Title: Epigrams by a young Lady on Occasion of an Entertainment lately made for her in the City
Attribution: A young lady
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: A witty epigram in which a young lady makes an unflattering comparison between dining with the proverbial Duke Humphrey (a saying meaning 'to go hungry') and one Duke Walter, who has supplied a poor meal.
Title: Verses
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A young lady
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Bitter tirade by a young woman, jilted by her faithless lover, predicting,
with a curse, that he will suffer the same fate whenever he falls in love