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Title: The cautious lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Advice to women to be cautious in encouraging or granting sexual
favours to men for fear of losing their power over them. Cf.the
following poem, BCMSV 2485.
Title: An item to the ladies
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that although men's vices allow them to advance in public life, women should practise virtue, since their vices serve no purpose
Title: Another on the same lady
Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset
Attribution: E. D---t
Date(s): 1696
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satire on the attempts by Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester,
still to appear beautiful
Title: My Lady Hyde
Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: In praise of the beauty of Jane, Lady Hyde (later Countess of Clarendon and
Rochester) as greater than that of Venus
Title: Under a ladies picture
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On the portrait of a beautiful woman, comparable in beauty to Helen and
superior to her in virtue
Title: To a very young lady
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Regretting being born too early to love a young girl, Lady Lucy Sidney,
praising her and anticipating the beauty she will become
Title: Of the Lady Mary etc
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1677 ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Eulogy, praising Princess Mary (the future Mary II) and William, Prince of
Orange (the future William III) on the occasion of their marriage; praising
also Charles II.
Title: To the servant of a fair lady
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Address to Sacharissa's servant, as one who may be able to act as an
intermediary and convey to his beloved his otherwise fearful expressions of
love
Title: To a young lady knotting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Love song to a young woman, admiring the skill with which her
fingers perform knotting
Title: In the praise of a noble lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: On the virtues of a noble woman; last lines imperfect because of damage to leaf. Translation of Martial, "Epigrams", IV.75.
Title: To a lady much courted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that a woman should either favour one admirer only, or else accept the attentions of all, since her reputation must be clearly known; crossed through
Title: To the lady much courted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that a woman should either favour one admirer only, or else accept the attentions of all, since her reputation must be clearly known