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Title: Upon K--g W---ms two first campagnes
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1692 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satire on William III's lack of success in the war against France in 1691
and 1692. A variant of "The author sure must take great pains" printed in
"Poems on affairs of state", III, 1704, p.342.
Title: The auction
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical description of paintings of various establishment figures in
Hereford, including a justice, the mayor, a physician and an apothecary
Title: A dialogue between the engine & the lamp given by Mr Morgan & Mr Foley
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical dialogue supposedly between a fire-engine with Jacobite sympathies
and a Protestant street-lamp, respectively representing Paul Foley and James
Morgan, Members of Parliament for Hereford 1695- 1698
Title: Catch in the year 1689
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1689 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Song praising drinking as better than arguing about religion or politics
Title: To Dr Broughton
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satire on the practice of organising public celebrations despite William
III's lack of success in the war against France, addressed to Dr Broughton of
Hereford
Title: On Mr Page's marriage
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Lighthearted satire on a clergyman named Page, torn between marrying for
love or money; he chooses the former but when rejected opts for the latter
Title: Song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem, hoping that the grief of bereavement will soon give way to new
desire
Title: Song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment
Title: To Sylvia advising her alwayes to wear black
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem, on the lady's beauty
Title: To a lady that wou'd have put herself for a spright on a gentleman
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem, on the lady's beauty
Title: On Tom Broads picture
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: On the changeable nature of Tom Broad of Hereford
Title: Song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment. Followed by an "Answer", BCMSV 219