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Title: Epitaph

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1624 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 44

Contents: 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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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: Pallas with the Muses

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16--

Manuscript: Lt 76

Contents: Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.

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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: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

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

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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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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious epigram on freewill and divine grace, attributed to St Bernard; translation

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BC MS Lt 1, p. 54 (1st sequence): The opening of
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

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, f.1r:
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An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed

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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