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Title: A poem of Dean Swift's copied from a lady's transcript
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1730 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Witty self-deprecatory apology to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, for failing to fulfil a dinner engagement, telling how she in turn
found his lifesyle difficult to bear on visiting him
Title: Verses writ on window at Lord Cartarets
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1725
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Witty verses on being made to wait for admission to Dublin Castle, when Lord
Carteret was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Followed by an answer.
Title: Sir John Vanbrugh's epitaph
Author: Evans, Abel ?
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Witty epitaph on the death of Sir John Vanbrugh, referring to his
architectural career
Title: A song
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 1733
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: Parody of a conventional love song, invoking numerous classical Greek gods
Title: The Nurses Delight
Author: Swift, Jonathan (?)
Attribution: Dean Swift
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Witty, partly bawdy, nursery-style rhyme involving nursery animals