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INDEX/BCMSV/3410 1

1624 ?

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.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3502 1

172- ?

Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).

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INDEX/BCMSV/3827 1

16--

Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3984 1

1715

The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"

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INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1

1708

Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star

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INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1

165- or 166- ?

On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious

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INDEX/BCMSV/6063 1

17-- ?

Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064

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INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1

17-- ?

Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065

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INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1

171- ?

Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved

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INDEX/BCMSV/5026 1

166- or 167-?

Religious epigram on freewill and divine grace, attributed to St Bernard; translation

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BC MS Lt 1

ca.1680

Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...

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BC MS Lt q 1

c.1680

Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing