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Brotherton Collection4
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Prior, Matthew3

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Prior, Matthew

Attribution: Prior

Date(s): 1692

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: On the transience of human youth and beauty. From stanza 3 of Prior's Ode of

1692.

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Title: Cupid mistaken

Author: Prior, Matthew

Attribution: Prior

Date(s): 1709 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Oblique praise of the beauty of a young woman, in which Cupid

shoots his arrow at his mother Venus, having mistaken the one

for the other

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Title: Henry and Emma a Poem upon the Modell of the Nut Brown Maid

Author: Prior, Matthew

Attribution: Prior

Date(s): 170- or 171-?

Manuscript: Lt 109

Contents: Version of the old ballad, 'The Nut Brown Maid', telling the story of the love of Henry and Emma; partly in dialogue, with the speakers' names marked

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Title: To King William

Attribution: Prior

Date(s): 1700

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: Extracts from Prior's 'Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700. To the King', in praise of William III

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