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BC MS Lt 87, f. 7r: The opening of Thomas Sprat's panegyric
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Poetical miscellany mainly of contemporary satires, by various authors, chiefly anonymous.

c.1680

Comprises 36 English verse satires on the behaviour of persons in high society during the reign of Charles II, including that of the king himself, many of them somewhat obscene.

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BC MS Lt 12, p. 5: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace book, partly in the hand of George Scott

Scott, George

c.1728-1779

Mainly poetical miscellany or commonplace book, in two hands, one c.1728-1750, the other seemingly that of George Scott, c.1766-1779. Fols 89v-90r: "Latin Proverbs with English Ones that answer to the...

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