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INDEX/BCMSV/3664

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On the folly of appreciating flowers more than grass; last two lines of Southwell's 'Scorne not the least'

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INDEX/BCMSV/3673

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Religious poem warning against procrastination in doing good and delay in combatting evil

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INDEX/BCMSV/3674

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Religious poem on the consequences of enjoying the material, worldly pleasures of a life of vanity, comparing it to a garden tended by Satan

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INDEX/BCMSV/3675

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Religious poem affirming that the humble and weak will be given their reward whatever the misery they suffer

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INDEX/BCMSV/3676

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Religious poem on the perils to the soul of human, secular love

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INDEX/BCMSV/3677

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Religious poem on the mixture of fortunes in human life such that no happiness is unalloyed, nor misery total

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INDEX/BCMSV/3678

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Religious poem in which King David expresses repentance for his sins caused by vain fancies and folly

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INDEX/BCMSV/3679

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Religious poem on Christmas Day describing the vision of a burning babe, the Christ child expressing his love for mankind. The final lines are repeated in another hand, below.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3680

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Religious poem in which St Peter expresses remorse and repentance for his sins, asking forgiveness; extracted from Southwell's 'St Peter's Complaint'

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INDEX/BCMSV/3686

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Epigram on the mixture of fortunes in human life such that no happiness is unalloyed, nor misery total; extract from Southwell's 'Time goes by turnes'

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BC MS Lt 91

c.1650-c1700

Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...