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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".

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BC MS Lt 24, f. 29v: The opening of Thomas D'Urfey's song
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

c.1730-1741

The volume also contains some prose

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BC MS Lt 53, f. 6r: Benjamin Coles's poem
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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...

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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

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