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Brotherton Collection13
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commonplace-books1
english poetry1

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Anonymous8
Amherst, Elizabeth1
Browne, Moses1
Edwards, Thomas1
Harry H.1
Melmoth, William, 1710-17991
Miss Am---St On Herself (Verso of Preceding Leaf)1
Mr: E---Ds (Verso of Preceding Leaf)1

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Title: An excellent new ballad to the tune of Packingtons Pound. 1698

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1698 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire on Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, and his reasons

for having the seats occupied by society ladies in St James's Chapel made

higher.

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BC MS Lt 82, f. 137v: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose

c.1690

Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...

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Title: On the New Testament

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the happiness promised by the Christian gospel, leading to

heaven

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: On happiness consisting in desiring nothing and living quietly

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Title: Fragment

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Harry H.

Date(s): 168- ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: On the rivalry for the love of 'Narcissus' (unidentified), who deserted his

other admirers for a 'Belgian nymph'

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Title: A new song

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1713

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Soldiers' drinking song, somewhat bawdy, looking forward to amorous

activities now that peace with France is at hand

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Title: Little master or The Bath toast 1709

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1709 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: Toast in praise of the beauty of a number of named young society women at Bath

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Title: The mourners. 1695

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1695 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Scurrilous satire on several named society ladies attending Mary II's

funeral, and, especially, one unnamed

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Title: Trust in a redeemer: a divine dialogue

Author: Browne, Moses

Date(s): 1739 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious dialogue in which Christ assures a doubting sinner of the extent of

his mercy and redemptive power

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Title: A Fragment. Taken out of Melmoths Active and retired Life, An Epistle.

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Melmoth, William, 1710-1799

Date(s): 17--?

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: On the necessity for the mind to be occupied; an extract from Melmoth's "Of an Active and Retired Life", 1735

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Title: Sonnet. Wrote at the entrance of a Root-house in W--st Gardens. 1751.

Author: Edwards, Thomas

Attribution: Mr: E---ds (verso of preceding leaf)

Date(s): 1751 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: Asserting that only the virtuous and contented are fit to enter the gardens

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Title: A Prize Riddle. 1749.

Author: Amherst, Elizabeth

Attribution: Miss Am---st on herself (verso of preceding leaf)

Date(s): 1749 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: Humorous and self-deprecatory riddle about Miss Elizabeth Amherst written by herself.

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