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Title: Loves garden griefe
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the consequences of enjoying the material, worldly pleasures of a life of vanity, comparing it to a garden tended by Satan
Title: Lewd love is loss
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the perils to the soul of human, secular love
Title: One (?) renounceth all the effects of love
Author: Vaux, Thomas, Lord
Attribution: In the Paradice of daintie devises [lower margin]
Date(s): 154- or 155- ?
Manuscript: Lt 86
Contents: Expressing a desire to escape love, since the rewards do not outweigh the pain involved
Title: Contemplatinge on the perfections of ( ) [i.e. left blank]
Author: Sylvester, Joshua
Date(s): 1599 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Love poem on the pains inflicted by his beloved; dedication of Sylvester's 'An ode of the love and beauties of Astraea' (see BCMSV 3638)
Delectable demaundes, and pleasant questions, with their severall answers, in matters of love: naturall causes, with morall and politicke devises. Translated out of French into English
Landi, Ortensio (1512-1553); Painter, William (1540?-1594); Chartier, Alain (1385-1433)
1596
"Based on the 1st 3 bks. of O[rtensio]. Landi's Quattro libri di dubbi, Vinegia, 1556, prob. through the French trans[lation]. Questions diuerses, Lyon, 1558"--STC. Translated by William Painter. ...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: the person with the most money is loved best
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: The comidy of errors
Date(s): 1594
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Expression of love; extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors",
III.2
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb, partly biblical: love your neighbour and do
him no wrong.
Title: Out of Catullus
Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
Date(s): 1598 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 2
Contents: On the inconstancy of woman's love, from Sidney's "Certain sonnets",
translating preceding Latin lines (Catullus, 70).
Title: The Seven Wonders of England
Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
Date(s): 1598 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 2
Contents: Love poem in which the seven wonders are compared with different aspects of
his relationship with his unyielding mistress; from Sidney's "Certain
sonnets".
Title: The burning babe
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: 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.