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Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Greeting a hogshead of wine as if it were a noble guest, translated preceding lines from Virgil, "Aeneid", V.10
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the practice of drinking healths, to show the antiquity of this custom in England. Translating preceding Latin lines from Barnes's own "Franciados".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the positive qualities of wine in moderation, and the negative effects of overindulgence
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: An example of drinking a health to Caesar, to show that this is not originally an English practice; translating accompanying lines from Ovid, "Fasti"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the nobility of the hogshead of wine, paraphrasing preceding Latin
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the appearance of Bacchus to the pirates; preceded by Greek and Latin versions
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the virtues of wine, paraphrasing preceding lines from Horace, "Odes", 21
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: In praise of wine, translating preceding lines from Anacreon. Used also as the final final two lines of BCMSV 4049.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the attributes of good wine, translating preceding Latin lines from the 'Schola Salerni'
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Song celebrating the gift of a hogshead of wine from Henry St John, later Lord Bolingbroke, including a health to the royal family, church, and John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, with a plea for sociable moderation in drinking.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the punishment of Danaus as an illustration of the antiquity of the hogshead; translating preceding lines from Horace, "Odes", II.11
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Comparing an ungrateful person to a hogshead with a hole in it; translated from preceding Greek lines by Lucian and given also in a Latin version
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Describing the beauty of Pandora; translated from Hesiod
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the drunken dancing of Hogshead, supposedly Bacchus's principal commander in India; translated from preceding lines from Nonnus, "Dionysiae"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Description of wine in the cellar of Ulysses (Odysseus); translating preceding Greek lines from Homer, "Odyssey"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Wishing that the inventor of the leather drinking bottle might dwell in heaven. Described as "that old catch".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the ingenuity with which satyrs will always find something from which to drink; translating preceding Latin lines from Nemesianus, "Eclogues"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Noting the occasional use of shoes and chamberpots as drinking vessels; translating preceding Latin lines attributed to John Lucemburgh
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Song celebrating a lady's slipper as a drinking vessel and envying its closeness to her feet. Described as "this extempore hymn".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Description of Nestor's drinking bowl, translated from Homer's "Iliad"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Explaining the significance of the weight and design of Nestor's drinking bowl; translating preceding Latin lines by Andrew Alciat, which explain the description given in Homer
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the design of two drinking bowls presented by Theagenes to Piso, each of which contains the constellations of a hemisphere; translated from Antipater Sidonius
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On Anacreon's design for a drinking bowl, depicting vines, youths and Bacchus rather than the stars; translated from Anacreon