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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