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[In Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon ... 1692]1
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The rambles of a rat

A. L. O. E (1821-1893)

1885

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Title: The Rats and the Cheese

Date(s): 1717 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 125

Contents: A political verse satire, in which different groups of rats form political parties, with the intention of serving their own interests. There is an implied reference to Mandeville???s 'The fable of the bees'

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On rats, and their nesting in small branches of trees

White, Taylor

[1897]

Extracted from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. XXX, 1897, article XXXII.

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The counter-scuffle : whereunto is added The counter-rat

R. S; R. S

1670

Two pieces of verse, respectively on a Lenten brawl at, and on inmates of, Woodstreet-Counter. Attributed by Wing to Robert Speed.

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So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First

Rathbone, Hannah Mary (1798-1878)

1845

A fictious diary, attributed to Hannah Mary Rathbone. "Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick"--Colophon. Pages with lined borders.

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Title: To the author of the Satyr Against Wit

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Apparently a reply to John Donne's 'Satire II', addressed to a doctor. Asserts that Donne's satire is fit only to be food for rats, but that it will kill the rats that eat it.

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Title: A ratt

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On the powers of premonition and revenge in rats; accompanied by woodcuts

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The mouse grown a rat : or The story of the city and country mouse newly transpos'd. In a discourse betwixt Bays, Johnson, and Smith

Tutchin, John (1661?-1707)

1702

An attack upon Charles Montagu Earl of Halifax who is "Bays". Attributed to John Tutchin (ESTC).

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Gedichte

Ratschky, Joseph Franz (1757-1810)

1785

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