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Title: On a very formal divine who had made verses
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: On a poet divine whose poetry would have been better had there been a tithing
muse
Title: On tobacco
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In praise of tobacco, particularly in comparison with wine. With prose notes
to certain words.
Title: To a fickle mistress
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Address to a fickle lover
Title: Against marriage
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A warning against marriage, advocating reading and writing love poetry rather
than encountering living women
Title: On a greasy pragmatical chandler in Oxon who fain would have kept me out of
his seat at Carfax one Sunday, sent to Mr Thomas Cox of Barum being of the
same trade, on the same occasion, 1652. [Latin epigram translated: "To make a
verse if nature hate / Let
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1652 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A satire on an Oxford chandler named Eglis who attempted to exclude the poet
from his pew in Carfax Church, sent to another chandler, Thomas Cox of Barum;
followed by a sequel, BCMSV 1218.
Title: On the forementioned chandler who at last returned a sorry reply to those
verses. [Latin epigraph translated: "Each prickear'd coxcombe thinks he strait
may prate / With any if a little fortunate".]
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1652 ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A sequel to the poem "On a greasy pragmatical chandler" (BCMSV 1217),
deriding the chandler Eglis for attempting a poem in reply
Title: On a nurse 82 years old who was married to a parish clark that was 74
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Humorous poem on the marriage, in their old age, of a nurse and a parish
clerk
Title: A reply to an abusive paper against naked breasts
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Argues that fault does not lie in having naked breasts but in viewing them
lasciviously; answers "Against naked breasts", pp.151-58 (BCMSV 1245).
Title: To the fairest lady Madam Rhoda Martin an epithalamium
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 1656 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Epithalamium, lavishing praise on the bride Rhoda Martin before her marriage.
Subscribed "London, Di. Epiph., 1656, John Fountain".
Title: To that truly virtuous lady Madam Rhoda Martin on her incomparable herball
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In praise of a herbal written by Rhoda Martin
Title: A song to his lute
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A song taking pleasure in sorrow
Title: Another song to his lute
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A song rejoicing that Celia is fickle as this gives life more variety