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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/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/5818 1

165- or 166- ?

On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious

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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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BC MS Lt 1

ca.1680

Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...

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BC MS Lt q 1

c.1680

Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing

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BC MS Yks 1

c.1648-1672

Contains a collection of Fairfax family records, written chiefly in Latin, but with some English poems and sentences included in it, by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry, including many coats-of-arms....

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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/83.1

16-- ?

Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January

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INDEX/BCMSV/109.1

15-- ?

Lines said to be engraved on Elizabeth I's pocket pistol presented to her by Philip of Spain, displayed on Dover pier, claiming to be able to shoot as far

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INDEX/BCMSV/10

1690

Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of

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INDEX/BCMSV/1004

1683 ?

Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord