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Title: The fairy
Author: Forrest, Frederick
Date(s): 1766 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Apparently on dancing as a punishment for ladies' wrongdoing; incomplete owing to loss of following leaf. Published in Forrest's 'A rattle for grown children' as a 5-stanza poem.
Title: The auction or Rome's relicts to be sold
Author: Forrest, Frederick
Date(s): 1766 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Satire on the Roman Catholic church in the form of a description of the lots at an auction of sacred relics; variation on a poem printed in 1766 in Forrest's 'A rattle for grown children'
Title: Love-a-la-mode, a new whimsical cantata by F.F. wrote 1764
Author: Forrest, Frederick
Attribution: F.F.
Date(s): 1764 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: A Jew, a Scot, a Jockey and an Irishman, suitors for the hand of a widow, bid for her in song linked by recitative; she chooses the Irishman. Printed in Forrest's 'A rattle for grown children'
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Frederick
Date(s): 1766 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Song in which the young Fanny begins to enjoy the power she has over men but does not yet understand her own amorous desires. Incomplete owing to loss of following leaf. Published in Forrest's 'A rattle for grown children' (5 stanzas).
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Frederick
Date(s): 1766 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: Song urging girls to marry as quickly as possible for the sake of their virtue, and before age can lessen their charms. Printed in Forrest's 'A rattle for grown children'.