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Title: The deluge seaseth

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 76

Contents: On the draining away of the water after the flood; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I

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Title: The delludge, the world drowned

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 76

Contents: On the flood, which drowns all but Deucalion and Pyrrha; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I

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Title: The councell of the gods

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 76

Contents: On Jove's intentions to flood the earth as a punishment for mankind's wickedness, and the agreement of the council of the gods; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I

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Title: Men out of stones, the world renewed, men out of stones cast behind the back of Ducalion, women out of stones cast behinde the back of Pyrrah

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 76

Contents: On the renewal of the human population after the flood by means of stones cast by Deucalion and Pyrrha; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I

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Title: A preface to his seacond all hayle

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 162- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 44

Contents: On the bad reception given to his poetical muse, since he is unable to flatter and satire is out of fashion, comparing Hatfield House and its inhabitants (the Cecil family) to Noah's ark, a refuge from the flood of vice in the world. Marginal

gloss.Prefac

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Title: Woodstock Park

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Praising the beauty and variety of a landscape, Woodstock Park

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Title: On the day of judgment

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, imagining the destruction of the

world and mankind's terror

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Title: Religion in retirment

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Address to a young friend in the country, normally averse to literature,

imploring him to read and learn from the religious poetry of the Bible

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Title: Lib. 7th. Ep. the 2nd. Paraphrased. Of the noble city of Venice.

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: Epigram on the excellence of Venice which, when compared to Rome, seems to be a city created by gods rather than men. Paraphrased from Martial (after Sannazarius), 'Epigrams', VII.2. One of 'some few epigrams out of Martial and other books

translated and

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