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Title: On a voyage to Clovelly
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A comic description of a voyage to Clovelly involving sea sickness and a
meeting with people who drink but do not eat.
Title: To -- accusing me for not being more jocular in a letter of mine dated on New
Years Day, in regard of the time.
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In letter form, arguing that the New Year is the same as the last except in
name and that it brings one nearer death; subscribed "From my chamber at the
Three Lutes, John Fountain".
Title: A shepheard's tale
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A pastoral in which the poet, a shepherd, meets a grieving girl who recounts
the story of her sad love affair.
Title: On a poet courting of a rich widow who refusing to wed him because he was a
poet, and so consequently poor, he in indignation speaketh thus unto her
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A dramatic dialogue between a poor poet and a rich widow on the subject of
marriage with contributions from her maid Priscilla. Speakers' name and
quasi-stage directions given.
Title: An epitaph on Mr --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph advocating emulation of the virtues of the deceased as his best
monument
Title: On the truly worthy & deserving matron Mrs Joan Leigh of Northam, written
under an epitaph which she had made on her mother, she being afterward laid in
the same grave, and under the same stone
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on Mrs Joan Leigh of Northam
Title: An epitaph on Mr --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on a man of great virtue
Title: An epitaph on --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on a lady whose virtues live on
Title: An epitaph on --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on a lady of great piety
Title: On two persons who were married before they were hang'd
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Ironic poen on a couple who were married and hanged in the space of
thirty-six hours.
Title: On a lady who being by marriage cured of her green sickness, remained
notwithstanding childless
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Asserting that the recovery of a lady from green sickness after marriage will
be considered hypocrisy if she does not now have a child
Title: On the death of --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on a man who encouraged poetry
Title: On a very formal divine who had made verses
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: On a poet divine whose poetry would have been better had there been a tithing
muse
Title: On tobacco
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In praise of tobacco, particularly in comparison with wine. With prose notes
to certain words.
Title: To a fickle mistress
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Address to a fickle lover
Title: Against marriage
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A warning against marriage, advocating reading and writing love poetry rather
than encountering living women
Title: On a greasy pragmatical chandler in Oxon who fain would have kept me out of
his seat at Carfax one Sunday, sent to Mr Thomas Cox of Barum being of the
same trade, on the same occasion, 1652. [Latin epigram translated: "To make a
verse if nature hate / Let
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1652 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A satire on an Oxford chandler named Eglis who attempted to exclude the poet
from his pew in Carfax Church, sent to another chandler, Thomas Cox of Barum;
followed by a sequel, BCMSV 1218.
Title: On the forementioned chandler who at last returned a sorry reply to those
verses. [Latin epigraph translated: "Each prickear'd coxcombe thinks he strait
may prate / With any if a little fortunate".]
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1652 ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A sequel to the poem "On a greasy pragmatical chandler" (BCMSV 1217),
deriding the chandler Eglis for attempting a poem in reply
Title: On a nurse 82 years old who was married to a parish clark that was 74
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Humorous poem on the marriage, in their old age, of a nurse and a parish
clerk
Title: A reply to an abusive paper against naked breasts
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Argues that fault does not lie in having naked breasts but in viewing them
lasciviously; answers "Against naked breasts", pp.151-58 (BCMSV 1245).
Title: To the fairest lady Madam Rhoda Martin an epithalamium
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1656 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Epithalamium, lavishing praise on the bride Rhoda Martin before her marriage.
Subscribed "London, Di. Epiph., 1656, John Fountain".
Title: To that truly virtuous lady Madam Rhoda Martin on her incomparable herball
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In praise of a herbal written by Rhoda Martin
Title: A song to his lute
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A song taking pleasure in sorrow
Title: Another song to his lute
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A song rejoicing that Celia is fickle as this gives life more variety