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Brotherton Collection28
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse28

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Fairfax, William28
Wx8
X3
My Brother William [Fairfax] (Heading); Wx (At End)2
Wxt [French]2
Wxt; Plutarch [Latin]1
Wx; Martial [Latin]1
Wx [Latin?]1
Wf1
Wx; Bible [Latin]1
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INDEX/BCMSV/468
1620 ?
On the profit others may gain from observing a lover's suffering. Heavily
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INDEX/BCMSV/469
1620 ?
On the happiness of having neither too much wealth nor too little, based on
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INDEX/BCMSV/471
1620 ?
Witty reply to the opinion that poets are fools, translating a preceding
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INDEX/BCMSV/473
1620 ?
The second of three translations, under the shared title "To him that had lost one of the sisters of destiny", of a preceding Latin epigram on the Graces ("Tres fuerint Charites"), here attributed to Martial. Cf. BCMSV 472,
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INDEX/BCMSV/476
1620 ?
Death fighting for liberty preferred to slavery, translated from a preceding French poem attributed to Ronsard ("Il vaut trop mieux en liberte mourir").
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INDEX/BCMSV/477
1620 ?
On happiness depending on being content with one's lot
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INDEX/BCMSV/479
1620 ?
The first of two epigrammatic couplets on the death of one Barnard. Cf.
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INDEX/BCMSV/480
1620 ?
The second of two epigrams, under the joint title "Epitaph", on the death of
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INDEX/BCMSV/482
1620 ?
Witty epitaph on one Jane Cholmley
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INDEX/BCMSV/483
1620 ?
Epitaph praising the beauty of Lady Barbara Belasyse, sister of Jane Cholmley
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INDEX/BCMSV/485
1620 ?
On the undesirability of depending on strangers rather than kinsmen, said to
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INDEX/BCMSV/487
1620 ?
The third of three versions of the same epigrammatic couplet comparing women