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Title: B. Coles his wish
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Attribution: B. Coles
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: A description of his ideal life, quietly in the country, in imitation of the
preceding "A Clergy-man's wish" (BCMSV 91). Preceded by Latin epigraph from
Virgil's "Georgics". At end, "17 February 1740/1".
Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles
Coles, Benjamin
c.1730-1741
The volume also contains some prose
Commonplace book of verse and prose, compiled by Benjamin Coles
Coles, Benjamin
1741
Contains numerous poems in English and Latin, some of them apparently by Benjamin Coles, dated 17 January 1740/41 to 24 July 1740/41; there are also prose pieces on death, atheism, tobacco, witches an...
Title: An epitaph on Mr Cole who lived temp. Jacobi primi
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Witty epitaph playing on the name of one Cole, asserting his eventual
resurrection on the Day of Judgement