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Title: A happy life
Author: Pomfret, John
Date(s): 1699 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Abridged extract from Pomfret's "The Choice", describing the pleasures of an
ideal country life, particularly the characteristics of house and garden
Title: Epitaph on Mr Drayton (poet)
Author: Quarles, Francis ?
Date(s): 1631 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epitaph on Michael Drayton, addressing his monument which it is said his fame
will outlive
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: Boetius, de Consol. Philos. Lib.3, Met.9, p.99
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1703 or 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 16
Contents: Prayer to God as creator and source of reason, for inspiration, strength and
comfort. Translated from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, III.9. Cf.
BCMSV 1253.
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.
Title: Dispair
Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Date(s): 1591 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Lament of resignation to a life of solitary sorrow and despair, translating
the French of Desportes. Song, adapting Raleigh's sonnet.
Title: The separation
Author: Norris, John
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Religious poem, looking ahead to death, speculating on the experience of the
soul at that time. Lacks the final stanza. .
Title: The elevation
Author: Norris, John
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Imagined flight of the soul to the happiness of heaven from where worldly
pleasures appear folly; religious. Stanzas 1-2, 5 of the published version.
Title: On Voiture the French witt
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit, humour and
literary skill
Title: Pleasure
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, recommending a
life of pleasure free from the cares of learning and study but realising that
this will not bring perfect happiness