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Brotherton Collection6837
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Letters Database464

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Wodehouse, Edmund258
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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/3502 1
172- ?
Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
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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/3984 1
1715
The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
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INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1
1708
Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
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INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1
165- or 166- ?
On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
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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/5026 1
166- or 167-?
Religious epigram on freewill and divine grace, attributed to St Bernard; translation
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INDEX/BCMSV/1
1688 (title)
Comic ballad on the occupation of Oxford for the future William III by John,
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INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
1713 (published)
Cato's soliloquy from Addison's play "Cato," V.1, arguing for the immortality of the soul after death, while contemplating suicide. At end, "23rd December