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Total number of records: 8

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	8
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	8

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Mr: C--- Y---E (Verso of Preceding Leaf)	8
Yorke, Charles ?	4
Yorke, Charles	4

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INDEX/BCMSV/6653

To a Lady. May 1747.

1747 (title)

On the difficulties of love.

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INDEX/BCMSV/6654

Occasioned by a Receipt to make ink given me by a Lady. Augt: 1747. In the manner of Waller.

1747 (title)

On the development of writing and the invention of ink, and their usefulness in being able to express love

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INDEX/BCMSV/6656

Sonnet, in imitation of Milton

174-?

In praise of the beauty and virtues of a lady, comparing her with another of the same name, seemingly now dead, who had suffered more

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INDEX/BCMSV/6657

To a Lady, on her Copying Dante after Clovis. Augt: ye: 19th: 1747

1747 (title)

On how artists have often depicted poets, and poets written verse in praise of artists, hoping that the lady in question might draw his picture, thus ensuring his own fame

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INDEX/BCMSV/6674

Prologue to Albumazar. Acted by Young Gentlemen at Hackney School - April the: 25th: 1747

1747 (title)

A prologue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, referring to the obscurity of the author. Cf. the next item (BCMSV 6675).

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INDEX/BCMSV/6675

Epilogue to be Spoken by Trincalo.

1747

Epilogue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, in 1747; cf. the previous item (BCMSV 6674)

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INDEX/BCMSV/6676

Prologue to Shakespear's first part of Henry the Fourth (Spoken at the same place, April 16th; 1748, the Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.)

1748 (title)

Prologue to a performance of Shakespeare's play Henry IV apparently at Hackney School (cf. the previous two items). praising the discernment of the audience and referring to the royal victory over the Jacobite rebels at the battle of Culloden in

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INDEX/BCMSV/6692

Daniell Wray Esquire. Anagram Is Weary, queer, and ill. 1747.

1747 (title)

Acrostic on Daniell Wray Esquire, commenting on his poor health and present lack of wit. The phrase 'Is Weary, queer, and ill' in the title (an anagram of the same name) recurs within the poem.