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Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: N; The London magazine
Date(s): 1775 (published) ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer
Title: Mr Garrick's answer to the verses addressed to him by the Earl of Chatham
Author: Garrick, David
Attribution: Mr Garrick
Date(s): 1778 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: 'Answer' to the verses on peaceful pastoral life addressed to him by William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham (BCMSV 1038), praising his wisdom and poetic talent.
Title: On Christ Church Windows, Oxon', by Mr J.C., 1640
Author: Cleveland, John ?
Attribution: Mr J.C.
Date(s): 1640 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 32
Contents: Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural
scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ
Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the painter's art. Followed
(f.12r) by a list of "Stories ment
Title: Solitude
Author: Philips, Katherine
Date(s): 1667 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the pleasure of solitude, and the visions of nature that it brings as
solace for human sorrow. Translated from French.
Title: Epitaph on Rosalind
Author: Monck, Mary
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Witty epitaph on a lady of pleasure
Title: Sir Thomas Overbury's epitaph
Author: Overbury, Sir Thomas
Date(s): 1613 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epitaph for himself affirming the survival of his soul after death
Title: A hagg
Author: Otway, Thomas
Date(s): 1680 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Description of a poverty-stricken old witch from Otway's play "The Orphan",
II.1
Title: Poverty
Author: Otway, Thomas
Date(s): 1682 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extracts from Otway's play "Venice Preserved", Acts II.3 and I, in which
Jaffeir warns Belvidera of the poverty and hardship facing them; followed by
unrelated lines on the virtues of poverty
Title: To the late Queen as she went to Bath
Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder ?
Attribution: Mr Wharton
Date(s): 170-
Manuscript: Lt q 13
Contents: Panegyric to Queen Anne when visiting Bath, expressing hope that her virtues
will beneficially affect the development of the youthful poet. Corrected.
Title: The female nine. 1693
Author: Mordaunt, Charles; Earl of Monmouth, later Earl of Peterborough
Date(s): 1690 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Scurrilous attack on the wives of the nine members of the Council, identified
in the margins; see BCMSV 126 and BCMSV 128.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Philips, Katherine
Date(s): 1663 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Prophetic love song, sung by Pompey's ghost to Cornelia, from Katherine
Philips's play "Pompey", III.4. Lacks one stanza.
Title: On Dr Burnets theory
Author: Newcomb, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Addison; [Latin]
Date(s): 1718 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: In praise of the theory of the formation of the Earth put forward by Dr
Thomas Burnet in his "Telluris Theoria Sacra", 1681, translating Addison's
Latin ode of 1689. Lacks the final 6 stanzas.