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Title: On Aristophanes
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epigram on the choice of Aristophanes to be an immortal temple to the Graces
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Plea by a woman to be protected from the entanglements and emotions of love
Title: An ode to the creator of the world
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1735 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as creator
Title: A poem on the divine attributes
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God's works and attributes
Title: Considerations on the Eighty Eight Psalm
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 88
Title: Written in the leaves of a lady's fann
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: On a woman's skilful use of a fan to make those around her fall in love with her
Title: On the first fit of the gout
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lightly humorous verses on gout as an illness of the rich and great
Title: Against the fear of death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: A reminder of death's inevitability, protesting against man's fear of death as pointless
Title: Jeptha's vow
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Religious poem paraphrasing Judges 11 and focusing on the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, due to a rash vow made by Jephthah to God
Title: An hymn to contentment
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Religious poem, praising the peace that contentment or happiness gives to the mind. The beginning resembles Dr Baillie's 'A Hymn to Contentment', published in 1755 in Samuel Derrick's 'A Collection of Original Poems'.
Title: A translation of Virgil's fourth Georgick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Translation of Virgil's "Georgics", IV, largely a treatise on bees