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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." (?).

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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"

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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

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 110

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

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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

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 110

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

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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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Category: Admiralty - High Command

Lord Strathclyde (RNMN) - Typed transcript of tape recording (Tape 364) for reference made to Fisher, Jellicoe, Churchill etc

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Category: Agriculture / Forestry

Mrs M. Butcher (HFIU) - Recollections of experience in Women's Land Army

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Title: Cato's soliloquy. Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture; in his hand

Plato's book on the immortality of the soul. A drawn sword on the table by

him.

Author: Addison, Joseph

Date(s): 1713 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 24

Contents: 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

1740, B.Coles"

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Coles, Benjamin ?

Attribution: B.C.; [Latin]

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin

verses

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