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Title: Epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1624 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: 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.
Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: Pallas with the Muses
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.
Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious epigram on freewill and divine grace, attributed to St Bernard; translation
Category: Agriculture
Papers of Misses E.M.& M.L.Macleod. 'Flax Picking and Government Nurseries'
Category: Accidents and Accidental Wounding
W.W.Meredith (GS) Diary 25.9.14. Officer examing souvenired revolver.
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