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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
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
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
Title: The snail
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A Welch curate
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: 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,
"25th February 1740/1".
Title: A pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their
contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the
respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a
marginal alternative reading, annotated
Title: A ballad
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Saturday] October 17, [17]67
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more
important than physical beauty
Title: On seeing Mr Wilkes on the hustings at Guildhall
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer, [Friday] March 26, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Eulogistic praise of the politician John Wilkes as a champion of liberty.
With a note: "The last line sounds oddly, if not hibernically".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of
his death
Title: To the fair authoress of an epigram, in answer to an illiberal abuse of the
late Rev. Dr Sterne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Answer to a criticism of Laurence Sterne (possibly the preceding BCMSV 1006),
representing envy as unable to harm his memory
Title: An ode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1762 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Celebration of the birth of the future George IV, anticipating his reign;
praising George III and Queen Charlotte
Title: The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of
Brentford)
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Gazetteer, [Friday] Dec. 30, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance
(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of
the verse.
Title: The kind inquiry
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Wednesday] Jan. 4, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: On the clergyman John Horne of Brentford. Followed by a prose note of his
friendship with the politician John Wilkes, whose victory in an election for a
London alderman he had helped to secure