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Title: And should she yeild who once said nay / I'd turn my back and walk away
[Verses (Index)]
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Anti-feminist diatribe, accusing women of inconstancy and pride and urging
their subservience to men, so much superior
Title: A pastoral on the death of Mrs Windham; Lycidas and Damon
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Pastoral elegiac lament for the death of Mrs Windham, praising her virtues,
in the form of a dialogue between two shepherds. Perhaps the mother of Ash
Windham, whose son Stillingfleet tutored.
Title: An hunting song
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: The same [i.e. Mr Stillingfleet]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Hunting song, praising the happiness of a huntsman's life and scorning less
active occupations
Title: Mr Stillingfleets answer to the foregoing verses
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Conversational reply to the preceding poem in which Mr Harris laments his
beloved's departure, making lighthearted fun of his expressions of love and
despair and his venture into poetry. Headed 'Sir'. Cf. also BCMSV 2072, 2073
Title: Mr Stillingfleets reply
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Answer to the preceding poem in which Harris acknowledged Stillingfleet's
superior poetic skill, graciously allowing it possible that the former may in
the end prove victorious. Cf also BCMSV 2070, 2071.
Title: A dialogue between a poet and his muse
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Dialogue in which the poet unsuccessfully asks his muse for permission to
write about a ball held at Gunton Hall, Suffolk, instead of continually about
his beloved, identified in the margin as Miss Barnes of Northrepps
Title: An epistle to the Right Honourable the Lady Hobart
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: The same [i.e. Mr Stillingfleet]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Conversational address probably to Elizabeth, wife of John, Baron Hobart,
later Earl of Buckinghamshire, sending her an example of his poetry and
admitting that minor poets rely on quantity and variety of verse for their
success
Title: Verses upon sleep ... 1736:
Author: Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Attribution: Mr Stillingfleet
Date(s): 1736 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Extravagant praise of the delights of sleep, urging others not to awaken him.
Imperfect at end owing to loss of leaf. With a reference to Milton ("B.4"?)
against the opening lines.