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Title: Epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1624 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph or tombstone inscription lamenting the deaths of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and his son James, Lord Wriothesley, in the Low Countries in 1624, as if spoken by their tomb. Cf. BCMSV 3408, 3409, 3410.
Title: Pallas with the Muses
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
Title: A usefull meditation
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy
death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and
the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January
1740/1."
Title: The snail
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A Welch curate
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,
"25th February 1740/1".
Title: A pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their
contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the
respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a
marginal alternative reading, annotated
Title: A ballad
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Saturday] October 17, [17]67
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more
important than physical beauty
Title: A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was
performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Copied from the first (originally) plain leaf of F. Vansleb's Travels printed
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord
Russell in 1683. One line corrected and signed G.S.
Title: On seeing Mr Wilkes on the hustings at Guildhall
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer, [Friday] March 26, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Eulogistic praise of the politician John Wilkes as a champion of liberty.
With a note: "The last line sounds oddly, if not hibernically".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of
his death
Title: To the fair authoress of an epigram, in answer to an illiberal abuse of the
late Rev. Dr Sterne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Answer to a criticism of Laurence Sterne (possibly the preceding BCMSV 1006),
representing envy as unable to harm his memory
Title: An ode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1762 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Celebration of the birth of the future George IV, anticipating his reign;
praising George III and Queen Charlotte
Title: The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of
Brentford)
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Gazetteer, [Friday] Dec. 30, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance
(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of
the verse.
Title: The kind inquiry
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Wednesday] Jan. 4, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: On the clergyman John Horne of Brentford. Followed by a prose note of his
friendship with the politician John Wilkes, whose victory in an election for a
London alderman he had helped to secure
Title: To the author of some lines in yesterday's Gazetteer addressed to the Revd.
Mr Horne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: From the above mentioned Gazetteer [Jan 4, 1769?]
Date(s): 1768
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In defence of the clergyman John Horne of Brentford, criticised for attention
to his external appearance, especially his clothes (see BCMSV 1009), praising
his mind. Dated Dec. 31, 1768
Title: An address to the young ladies [index]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A.B.
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Advice to young women to behave reverently in church, taking as example the
flirtatious Kitty who adjusts her behaviour accordingly. Headed: "A.B. desires
we will insert the following address to the young ladies at church, in
compliance with a very good i
Title: A rebus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: A rebus or riddle, the answer (not given) being the name of a city.
Subscribed "O's Coll.", perhaps referring to Oxford
Title: Extempore lines on a late translation of French sermons. Addressed to Dr D-d
[Dod, margin].
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Antigallican. Gazette, [Friday] Sept. 15, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Criticism of Dr William Dodd for translating French sermons when Britain has
a sufficiency of authors able to give advice to George III
Title: Upon the death of the most noble John Manners, Marquis of Granby and Colonel
of the Blues. [Two epigrams on ... (index, cf.BCMSV 1017).]:
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Old British Spy and London Weekly Journal, [Saturday] Oct.27, 1770
Date(s): 1770 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epigrammatic lament for the death of John Manners, Marquis of Granby, punning
on his surname
Title: Upon the same [i.e. the death of ... John Manners, Marquis of Granby]. [Two:
epigrams on ... (index, cf. BCMSV 1016).]:
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1770
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epigrammatic lament for the death of John Manners, Marquis of Granby, punning
on his surname
Title: Regnier's epitaph, made by himself
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: London Magazine April (?) 1771 p.655 col.21; [French]
Date(s): 1771 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epitaph for the satirist Mathurin Regnier, translating preceding French lines
written by himself reflecting on his carefree life. With a note, "A very
athiestical epitaph, but very well translated (closely) and at least equally
witty in the translation wi
Title: The post from Parnassus. An epigram. [Epigram on Lord North (index).]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The London Packet; or, New Evening Post. From Monday July 1 to Wednesday
Date(s): 1771 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satirical attack on Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (Lord North), for his
subservience to the wishes of George III