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Title: Doris
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Light satire seemingly on Mrs Barry the actress, particularly on her
behaviour in immediately disowning her many lovers
Title: An epistle to Sir Richard Temple on pleasing
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and
usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle
to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected
virtues
Title: To Cynthia weeping and not speaking
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Love poem, appealing to his mistress to tell him why she is weeping so that
he can lessen her grief by sharing it
Title: Jack Frenchman's lamentation to the tune of I'll tell the Dick
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical ballad on the French defeat at the battle of Oudenarde, praising
the Elector of Hanover (the future George I) and laughing at Louis XIV's
discomfiture