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Title: Epitaph design'd for Mr Rowe in Westminster Abbey. To the memory of Nicholas
Rowe Esq. his wife erected this monument
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Nicholas Rowe's monument in Westminster Abbey, praising him
Title: Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston, of Barningham in Norfolk
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Margaret Paston, praising her virtues
Title: Poverty and poetry
Author: Broome, William
Attribution: Mr Broome
Date(s): 171- or 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lighthearted verses on poets' lack of financial reward compared to some other
professions. Differs from the version published in 1727.
Title: Verses imitated from the French of Mounsieur Maynard, To Cardinal Richlieu
Author: Stepney, George
Attribution: Mr Stepney; [French]
Date(s): 1706 ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lament for the decline of poetic and other powers as age and death approach,
conscious of the small part played in the victories of John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough
Title: Epitaph by Mr Dryden on his sweetheart
Author: Jonson, Ben
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1612 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epigrammatic epitaph on a beautiful virtuous woman, adapted from ll.3-6 of
Jonson's Epigram 124, "Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.".
Title: Epitaph made on two lovers struck dead with one flash of lightning as they
were at work in the fields near Oxford
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, two lovers killed
simultaneously by lightning when harvesting, praising their virtue
Title: The miller of Trompington, on the Reve's Tale from Chaucer
Author: Betterton, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Betterton
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Close adaptation of the humorous, bawdy Reeve's Tale from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales, in which two Cambridge scholars get their revenge on a
miller who has stolen their corn by sleeping with his wife and daughter.
Title: An epistle from Lord Lovell to the Earl of Chesterfeild
Author: Pulteney, William; Earl of Bath
Attribution: Mr Poultney
Date(s): 1740 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Address to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, supporting him in
his desire for England to assert herself by war against Spain; as if from
Thomas Coke, Lord Lovel (later Earl of Leicester), satirising him. Lacks the
final stanza, owing to loss o
Title: Messiah. A sacred eclogue.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem joyfully anticipating the birth of Christ, based on passages
from Isaiah; imitating Virgil's fourth Pastoral, or Eclogue
Title: Devout soliloquies. Soliloquy 1
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God the creator
Title: On the works of creation
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God the creator. Slightly abridged.
Title: On the divine goodness
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of the goodness of God