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Title: Discord
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1596 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the
underground dwelling-place of Ate, representing discord
Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.
Crofts family
1670-1833
Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...
Papers of John Salvio.
Salvio, John
c.1698-1736
Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of various sizes, including orders and receipts, a page of calligraphic writing exercises, pages of geometrical and navigational drawings, a r...
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Love poem. At end, "22 August 1738".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Philips, Katherine
Date(s): 1667 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: On the happiness of a quiet country life of retirement, distant from the
vanity and ambition of court and town
Title: The recluse
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On happiness consisting in a life free from the worldly ambitions of city and
court, instead having the eternal happiness of heaven in mind.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wxt [French]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Death fighting for liberty preferred to slavery, translated from a preceding
French poem attributed to Ronsard ("Il vaut trop mieux en liberte mourir").
Line 3 corrected.
Title: Ode the 8th, Lib. the 3rd. A thanksgiving for a safe return from sea.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Celebration of the poet's safe return from a dangerous sea voyage, and exhortation to enjoy simple pleasures at a time of England's deliverance from a French plot. Paraphrased from Horace, Odes, III.8
Title: Lib. the 2nd, Epig. 22nd
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Epigram arguing that it is difficult for an honest man to gain a living in the city. Paraphrased from Martial, 'Epigrams', II.22. One of 'some few epigrams out of Martial and other books translated and immitated'.