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Title: On that morne very bright and instantly cloudy and as instantly bright agen
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem on the stability offered by faith in a changeable world; headed 'Sept 2 1715'; with some revisions or corrections
Title: On a dwarf courting a bright lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Complaining of a dwarf's unnatural ambition in attempting to gain a lady's love, contrasting it with the ambitions of giants and trees
The day dawned both to Jews and Gentiles, and clear discoveries of light and righteousness, the bright and morning star appearing
White, Dorothy (1630?-1685)
1684
Pages 7-8 skipped in page numbering. Signed at end: Dorothy Wight. Errata slip pasted to p.16.
Letter
19th Jul 1669
Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from Sir Joseph Bright , about the coach accident suffered by Bright's wife and daughter and Mr Newton's letter regarding his innocence.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm; largely unreadable owing to damage to leaf
Title: Chloe
Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Comparing a young woman to a bright day, both beautiful and common to all,
i.e. promiscuous