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Title: Strephon
Author: Radcliffe, Alexander
Date(s): 1680 or 1681 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satire on the central figure of a Whig political faction, noting his former fashionable behaviour and his current intriguing with the Green Ribbon Club
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester
Attribution: Sir John Suckling
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the inconstancy and extremities of behaviour of those in love; extract
from Rochester's "Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne", here not in
dialogue form
Title: On the death of the late Queen Mary
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Extravagant elegiac pastoral lament on the death of Mary II, mainly in the
form of an address to 'Strephon' by personifications of the spirit, or
genius, of England and of Belgium (Holland); also praises William III
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Reflections on the folly and unhappiness of human life and the universality
of death, especially attacking man's exploitation of the earth and the
mercenary motives of doctors; in the form of a dream vision experienced by
'Strephon', enabling him to see t
Title: A poem presented to the Honourable the Lady B.
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Reflections on the order in the natural world, contrasting it with man's
unruly behaviour and preoccupation with power, leading to war and misery.
Ends with praise of the dedicatee (who must be Susan Armyne, Lady Belasyse)
as a potential bulwark against t
Title: The tune Hey boys up go wee [at side]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Bawdy love song, comparing rapturous love-making to bees visiting a hive