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Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Attribution: B.C.; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
verses
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 1741 ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: 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.
Coles, 1 January 1740/1."
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem within a prose "Letter from the dead to the living", relating
a vision of heaven. At end, "B. Coles, 26 February 1740/1. NB: I wrote the
foregoing epistle to a young gentlewoman for whom I had a more than ordinary
respect when living".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 1741 ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious verses on God's care for those who believe, translating preceding
Latin lines; included in Cole's prose autobiography
Title: To God
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Attribution: B.C.
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, praising God and requesting poetic inspiration
Title: Upon melancholy
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Attribution: [Latin]; B.C.
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: On Melancholy as a child of Hell. Accompanied by a parallel Latin text
beginning "O triste nomen", and prose notes on the subject.