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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
Title: Upon a lady's leaving the town in the spring
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Love poem, lamenting the departure from London of a lady whom art and nature both honour, and comparing her to Cynthia, the virgin goddess
Title: To Olivia upon her leaving the playhouse
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On the retirement of an actress from the London stage, most likely Mrs Rogers, and on her rivalry with Anne Oldfield and Mrs Bradshaw, emphasizing the damage to the theatre that this entails
Title: An epilogue of thanks to the town, spoke by Mrs Sterling on her leaving the
stage
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1731 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Epilogue spoken by the actress Mrs Sterling, semingly after a performance of
a play in Dublin, thanking her audience for their kind approval during her
stage career. Cf BCMSV 750, 798.
Title: A dialogue between Skinner Spencer and Master Shadwell both before they went to the university at leaving the school
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Dialogue between two young men on the merits of law, religion, medicine and the military as professions; presented at Tonbridge School
Title: To Mr Ch. S--r. W-- Park, Nov. 29, 1731. [Lyric (?) to Mr Ch.
Stonor on leaving W-- Park in the winter (verso, i.e. p.190).]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: T.M. [at end]
Date(s): 1731 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Address to a landowner, Charles Stonor, lightheartedly
critical of the absence of water at his house and estate in both
summer and winter. Headed 'Sir', and with a monogrammed TM at
end.
Title: Miss P--s farewell to Bath
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1736 ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: A young woman's lament at having to leave the flirtatious delights of Bath
Title: Translated paraphrastically from one of the Centum Fabulae, humbly dedicated
to the honourable fraternity of cuckolds
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- or 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Tale or fable, lightly satirical, in which all horned animals, but also the
camel, leave their homes in the forest at the lion's command. Imperfect owing
to loss of leaves. Probably paraphrased from the "Centum Fabulae" of Fabius
Paulinus.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Lament at having to take leave of his beloved, expressing devoted love
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: The end of a poem otherwise imperfect owing to loss of leaves, on the beauty
of a lady of court or society.
Title: The young ladys farewell to Bath
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1736 ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: A young woman's lament at having to leave the flirtatious delights of Bath.
Subscribed May 6, 1736.
Title: Sickness, an ode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1732 (Crum)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Feverish reflections, in sickness (before calm and rest are restored), on the
possibility of leaving life's pleasures for the terrors of death