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Title: Garnetts ghost. A dressing to the Jesuits mett in privet caball just after
the murder of Godfery
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1679 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 87
Contents: Outspoken anti-Catholic satire on the Jesuits, in the form of a harangue by
the ghost of the Jesuit Henry Garnett; attributing to them the murder of Sir
Edmund Berry Godfrey, and urging them to murder Charles II and all heretics;
citing many historical pa
Title: The mischief of sordid education
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Criticism of contemporary education. Paraphrase from Horace's 'Art of Poetry' by John Olham; some variation from the printed version.
Title: The vanity of authority
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Lines suggesting that even those in the highest positions of power can be slaves to their passions. Extract from an 'imitation' of Boileau's Satire 8 by John Oldham.
Title: An asse's censure of mankind
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the folly of mankind. Extract from an 'imitation' of Boileau's Satire 8 by John Oldham; some variation from the printed version.
Title: Of the honest simplicity of the antients
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the degeneracy of the English race. Extract from an 'imitation' of Juvenal's Satire 13 by John Oldham; some variation from the printed version.
Title: That no villany can be committed, without the ensuing tortures of conscience
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the impossibility of escaping the reproaches of one's own guilty conscience. Extract from an imitation of Juvenal's Satire 13 by John Oldham; some variation from the printed version.
Title: Freindship described in David's lamentation over Jonathan
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Lamentation on the loss of a true friend and praise of the value friendship. Extract from a paraphrase of David's Lamentation for the death of Saul and Jonathan by John Oldham.
Title: Of the power of honour over vertuous minds
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: In praise of honour and its value for inspiring virtuous men to great actions. Extract from a paraphrase of an Ode of Aristotle, in Athanaeus, by John Oldham; some variation from the printed version.
Title: A dialogue between the dog & the wolf, concerning worldly happiness
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Satire expressing the preference for freedom in poverty than riches in bondage. Some variation from the printed version.
Title: A character of a vertuous woman
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extravagent praise of a virtuous woman. Significant variation from the printed version, entitled 'Some verses written in Septemb. 1676. Presenting a book to Cosmelia' by John Oldham.