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INDEX/BCMSV/3410 1

1624 ?

Elegiac epitaph or tombstone inscription lamenting the deaths of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and his son James, Lord Wriothesley, in the Low Countries in 1624, as if spoken by their tomb. Cf. BCMSV 3408, 3409, 3410.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3827 1

16--

Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6063 1

17-- ?

Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064

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INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1

17-- ?

Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065

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INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1

171- ?

Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved

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INDEX/BCMSV/83.1

16-- ?

Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January

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INDEX/BCMSV/100

173- ?

Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,

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INDEX/BCMSV/1001

176- ?

Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a

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INDEX/BCMSV/1002

1767 (published)

Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more

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INDEX/BCMSV/1004

1683 ?

Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord

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INDEX/BCMSV/1005

1768 (published)

Eulogistic praise of the politician John Wilkes as a champion of liberty.

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INDEX/BCMSV/1006

1768 (published)

Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of