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Title: Inscriptions on head-stones
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Churchyard epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective
title shared with BCMSV 1093-5.
Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective title shared
with BCMSV 1092, 1094-5.
Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1714 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, asserting victory over death; possibly for a man called Carnel,
wittily punning on his name (see Crum). Collective title shared with BCMSV
1092-3, 1095.
Title: [Inscription on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Doggerel epitaph warning the living that they too must die. Collective title
shared with BCMSV 1092-4
Title: A cure for the head-ach
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: First part of a humorous poem about an Irishman suffering from a headache after a drinking session, incomplete owing to loss of following leaves
Title: On the calves-head-clubb, Jan 30, 1734
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1734 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Comparing the Whigs of the Calves Head Club with the Roundheads who beheaded
Charles I, suggesting that they in turn wish to overthrow George II
Title: Perseus carieth away the head of Medusa with Pegasus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Perseus's beheading of the gorgon Medusa and his acquisition of Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV
Title: Garth's Dispensary [heading from earlier extract]
Date(s): 1699 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from The Dispensary by Sir Samuel Garth, Canto III, on the nature of death. Five lines are missing between the third and fourth lines
Title: Garth's Dispensary [heading from earlier extract]
Date(s): 1699 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from The Dispensary by Sir Samuel Garth, Canto IV, commenting on how people try to disguise their foolishness or cowardice
Title: Dryden's Translation of Theocritus [heading from previous extract]
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from Dryden's 'Daphnis and Chloris', translated from Theocritus, in which Chloris argues against marriage. Printed in 'Sylvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies' [edited by Dryden]
Title: Meleager gives Atalanta the hide and head of the bore which he slew
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Meleager's presentation of the head and hide of the boar to Atalanta, and his slaying of two other hunters; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VIII
Title: Extracts out of Orlando Furioso (heading f.90v)
Author: Hoole, John
Date(s): 1783 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Following from BCMSV 6176. Prefaced by prose: 'Michael goes to seek Silence in cloisters with monks, but finds only his name enroll'd but he not known but is suppriz'd to find discord amongst them of whom he enquires where Silence is to be found
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