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Title: Fragmenta Anacreontis ... X, In Ver ... Englished:
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Pastoral on Spring, translating preceding Latin lines, themselves a
translation of one of the Anacreonta
Title: On the fair budd of honor and vertew John Lindsay of Arnbathie
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: W.J.
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 69
Contents: In praise of the young John Lindsay of Arnbathie, exhorting him to continued virtue in the future. Lines 1-11 form an acrostic on the recipient's name.
Title: God's absolute dominion
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on God's power over nature
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Expressing reluctance to heed the call of ambition and exchange a life of
quiet for one of worldly action
Title: On creating the knights of the Bath 1725
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1725 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Satirical ballad describing the ceremony in Westminster Abbey creating new
knights of the Bath, and the accompanying revelry, also satirising Sir Robert
Walpole