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Title: To Sylvia - presented with a Ring, bearing this Motto, The Nonpareil
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Witty 'tete a tete' between the poet and Venus, in which the the poet asks about the possibility of perfection in a woman ('Perfection's right epitome'); and Venus replies that only one woman is perfect, and unites all of womankind's virtues -
Sylvia, the
Title: See the Prayer at the Time of the Distemper among the horned Cattle
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Witty, epigrammatical lines satirising the greed of bishops
Title: Sent with an Essence Bottle
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- to 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Poetic epistle sent from Damon to his beloved, Cloe, accompanying the gift of an 'essence bottle'; the poem consists of a series of witty suggestions as to why Cloe will not need (will even 'disdain') this gift
Title: Non omnia possumus omnes
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Quasi-pastoral love poem: Celia, Corinna and Phyllis all possess beauty and particular charms, but also particular flaws; only Chloe combines all their charms, and has no flaws.
Title: To a Lady on her Tambour Work of Flowers
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175 or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Witty lines which playfully indict the female addressee for the 'deceitfully' disarming beauty of her embroidery
Title: To a Lady on the Death of her Lap-Dog, named Button - In Doggrels
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Verse addressed to a grieving lady whose dog has recently died; the poet mocks the inappropriate extent of her emotion, reminding her that death, the great leveller, must finally come to all
Title: An Epigram
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Epigram mocking a woman grieving for her dead dog. Cf. BCMSV 6370
Title: An Imitation of Chaucer's Recantation adapted to the Tune of the Black Joke.- Female Inconstancy
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Poem ironically juxtaposing the putative constancy of women with the transience of all other earthly things. Said to be an imitation of Chaucer.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Light-hearted epistolary poem, directed to a lady/lover, concerning the Deputy Chaplain of the Tower of London; the name 'Uti' is asterisked in the poem, which has the corresponding subscription below the poem: 'Revd: Mr Utrecht Featherstonhaugh,
Deputy C
Title: Spoken to a young lady, as she was departing from us on a rainy day
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Occasional lyric, in which the poet imagines nature sympathizing with his own sadness as he says goodbye to a young lady, and shedding tears in the form of rain
Title: Spoken extempore to a Lady at - assembly on her saying, 'here's my Hand, but not my Heart'
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Brief, epigrammatic lyric enjoining a woman to be consistent in her behaviour, and to offer her hand only if she is also signalling love
Title: Occasioned by my Partner's playing a Diamond, when I wanted a Heart
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Poet playfully suggests that instead of playing a diamond, he wishes his partner had played a heart (with the obvious pun)