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Title: Juno's promis to Eolus to raise a storm agai[n]st Eneis

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1697 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Extracts from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aenied" (I.105-11, 176-7,

188-200) in which Juno urges Aeolus, god of the winds, to raise a storm

against Aeneas's ship, only for the winds to be rebuked by Neptune

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BC MS Lt q 48, f.2v: An extract from
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Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.

Crofts family

1670-1833

Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...

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