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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

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Title: To Berenice

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Love poem

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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

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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

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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

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Title: Considerations on the Eighty Eight Psalm

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 103

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 88

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'.

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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

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