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INDEX/BCMSV/3410 1
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/3502 1
INDEX/BCMSV/3502 1
172- ?
Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
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INDEX/BCMSV/3827 1
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/3984 1
INDEX/BCMSV/3984 1
1715
The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
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INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1
INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1
1708
Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
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INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1
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/6063 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6063 1
17-- ?
Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
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INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1
17-- ?
Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
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INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1
171- ?
Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
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INDEX/BCMSV/5026 1
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
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
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
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
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/52.1
INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
1713 (published)
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
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INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
173- ?
Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
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INDEX/BCMSV/83.1
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/98.1
INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
1741 ?
Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
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INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
173- ?
Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
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INDEX/BCMSV/109.1
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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BC MS Lt 10
BC MS Lt 10
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
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BC MS Lt q 10
BC MS Lt q 10
c.1725
Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...
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INDEX/BCMSV/10
INDEX/BCMSV/10
1690
Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
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INDEX/BCMSV/100
INDEX/BCMSV/100
173- ?
Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,