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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/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

1708

Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star

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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

17-- ?

Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065

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INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1

171- ?

Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved

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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

173- ?

Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin

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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

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

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 100

c.1775-1810

Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.

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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,