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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

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Pinnell, Peter4
Peter Pinnell; P.P. (At End)3
Peter Pinnell1

Title: A Sermon in Verse

Author: Pinnell, Peter

Attribution: Peter Pinnell

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Didactic verse sermon, urging the reader to have faith in God and set misfortune at defiance; preceded by a quotation from Psalm 42 (verses 6 and 7).

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Title: Enigma [and] Solution

Author: Pinnell, Peter

Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Poetic riddle, on a pinch of snuff, which sets up the enigma in the first section, and solves it in the next; Pinnell is possibly the author only of the solution

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Title: A Conundrum which solves itself in writing, but not in speaking

Author: Pinnell, Peter

Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Poetical conundrum playing with Roman numerals.

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Title: On seeing Lady Bathurst's Children asleep, and her saying, how much like little Saints they look'd

Author: Pinnell, Peter

Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Lines inspired by Lady Bathurst's comment that her sleeping children looked like little saints.

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