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Title: Amans amens
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wx [Latin?]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: On the profit others may gain from observing a lover's suffering. Heavily
corrected, and finally crossed through
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wx; Bible [Latin]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: On the happiness of having neither too much wealth nor too little, based on
a preceding Latin quotation from Proverbs 30.7. Cf. BCMSV 470.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wxt [French]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Witty reply to the opinion that poets are fools, translating a preceding
4-line poem in French. First line corrected.
Title: Another of the same
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wx; Martial [Latin]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: The second of three translations, under the shared title "To him that had
lost one of the sisters of destiny", of a preceding Latin epigram on the
Graces ("Tres fuerint Charites"), here attributed to Martial. Cf. BCMSV 472,
474
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wxt [French]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Death fighting for liberty preferred to slavery, translated from a preceding
French poem attributed to Ronsard ("Il vaut trop mieux en liberte mourir").
Line 3 corrected.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: x
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: On happiness depending on being content with one's lot
Title: Epitaph
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: x
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: The first of two epigrammatic couplets on the death of one Barnard. Cf.
BCMSV 480
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: The second of two epigrams, under the joint title "Epitaph", on the death of
one Barnard. Cf. BCMSV 479
Title: Epitaph upon the vertuous Mrs Jane Cholmley
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wx
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Witty epitaph on one Jane Cholmley
Title: Epitaph on her sister the Lady Bellassis
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wx
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Epitaph praising the beauty of Lady Barbara Belasyse, sister of Jane Cholmley
(see BCMSV 482). Attributed by Crum to Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wxt; Plutarch [Latin]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: On the undesirability of depending on strangers rather than kinsmen, said to
be translated from Plutarch. Heavily corrected.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: The third of three versions of the same epigrammatic couplet comparing women
to forts, written consecutively with much correction