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Title: [unknown]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Moralising lines, urging upon children the pursuit of study
Title: Advice to Children
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Moralising poem, urging upon children the pursuit of study (and warning against the dangers of excessively 'following play').
Title: [unknown]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: On the theme of intellectual humility.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Poem describing the inequalities of life, and urging contentment
Title: [unknown]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 1705 (head of poem)
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: On the importance of humility and contentment.
Title: The Bed of Reverend Mr William Willets - an Humble Faithful Minister - in Dudley, Who at the Age of 36 Fell Asleep, March the 9th 1699/1700
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 1700?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph on the clergyman William Willets, concerning the consequences of human vanity and reality of divine judgement
Title: A Sacred Hymn Being the Breathings of a Holy Soul After the Blessed Jesus. [Epigraph from Acts 4.12]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Praise of Jesus; speaker begs for deliverance. EMANUEL in margins down the side. Followed by a prayer in prose.
Title: An Acrostick Epitaph upon Mr M. Mead M.B. Philo-musus. Prov:10.7. The Memory of the Just is Blessed.
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Acrostic epitaph, envisioning the body of Matthew Mead as a cabinet and his soul as a jewel, with the two separated by death but conjoined again in resurrection; succeeded by Latin version of the same
Title: On a Matron
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph idealising, in religious terms, female fidelity and chastity; followed by corresponding Latin couplet. Title preceded by 93, as if taken from a collection
Title: On a Vertuous Wife
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph on the different virtues of a deceased wife. Title preceded by 99, as if taken from a collection
Title: A Lady Dying in Childbed
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph on a mother who is seen as renewed in her son. Title preceded by 103, as if taken from a collection
Title: [unknown]
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph on the reuniting of lovers in death