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Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translation from John Owen's epigrams suggesting that since rich men are fearful and poor men hopeful, fear is preferable to hope
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Asserting that Brutus was mistaken to believe that Rome could return to its ancient glories after so many years of tyrannical rule. Translated from Latin by Seneca on the preceding page.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Argues that those without desires cannot be disappointed; translation of Seneca; with some alternative wording given
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem arguing that the only true way to love ourselves and our neighbours is to love God; translation of epigram attributed to Augustine; with some revisions or corrections
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translation from the Greek anthology (given in Latin) on the rewards given to the pious
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Seemingly accompanies a gift, expressing the wish that the recipient will become his wife, or at least his mistress; with some revisions or corrections; attributed to Tibullus; cancelled
Title: Prov. XI: An essay or paraphrase
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Attribution: P.W.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Paraphrase of Proverbs 11.29, on the disturbance that a man may create for himself in his own house through bad management. With a note at end: 'Thus far acc to Sr Fr Bacons paraphrase' (i.e. Sir Francis Bacon). Cf. BCMSV 4743.