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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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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

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INDEX/BCMSV/1045

1606 ?

Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with

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INDEX/BCMSV/1046

15-- ?

Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs

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INDEX/BCMSV/1048

15-- ?

Proverb on the money value or resale worth of everything, said to be from Somers's Tracts, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with English ones