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english poetry1
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Hall, Henry, the Elder2
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Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)1
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Title: To my freind Mr Charles Hoskins upon borrowing Mr Wallers poems

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Attribution: Mr Henry Hall

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 6

Contents: In praise of Edmund Waller and John Dryden as the greatest modern English

poets

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: On how luxurious living damaged the state more effectively than warfare.

Translated from Juvenal, Satires, VI.292-3 (not IX.29, as stated).

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BC MS Lt 63, p. 91: An extract from Samuel Colvil's 'The Mock Poem', Part 2, including the section beginning
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The factious crew or Presbyterie di[s]plaid, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

ca.1680

Also known as:Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part Two of Colvil's "Mock poem", a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters. In this case the Latin version of the fina...

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Title: On heaven

Author: Rowe, Elizabeth

Attribution: Mrs Rowe

Date(s): 1704 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem imagining and praising the bliss of heaven and its

inhabitants, and the limitless glory of God

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Title: To Mr Charles Hoskins upon my lending him Mr Wallers poems

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: In praise of Edmund Waller and John Dryden as the greatest modern English

poets

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