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Total number of records: 22

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Brotherton Collection22
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Forrest, Theodosius22
T.F. (Title Page)22

Title: In Jovial Crew [I'm in love with Kate (index)]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 1760 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: On the progression of a love affair, a song performed in an adaptation of Richard Brome's play 'The Jovial Crew', printed in 1760

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Title: Addrest to Mrs --- who drew the author into a confession of his love and then demanded a copy of verses as a token of her conquest

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Criticising a woman for provoking his love when she loves another, and asserting his resistance. A later hand has inserted the name Euart into the title.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Urging women to secure their conquests in love by shunning inconstancy and indifference

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Title: Come give your attention [index]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: On the inability to resist the temptation to love, since life holds no pleasures without it

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Title: Song

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Song on the ease with which it is possible to gain the love, if not the body, of a fashionable young lady

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Title: Myrtilla demanding etc [index]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: On how charm must appear natural and free from affectation if it is to succeed in arousing love

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Title: The doubt

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 177- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Love poem, on the impossibility of deciding whether the lips or eyes of his beloved are her best feature

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Title: Song

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 1750

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Song on the impossibility of hiding his love or of gaining a favourable response to it; published in 1790 with a date of 1750

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: On the need for platonic and physical love to be joined in a single woman, describing some who only feel one form of desire

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Title: Song [When o'er the mind (index)]

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Song on the need to have sensible expectations of the beloved, rather than hoping for the ideal of perfection which love produces in the mind

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Title: Song in Dioclesian

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 1758 ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: Song requesting happiness in love, perhaps sung in the 1758 revival of the dramatic opera 'The Prophetess, or, The History of Dioclesian'

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Title: On Miss Bacchus

Author: Forrest, Theodosius

Attribution: T.F. (title page)

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 64

Contents: On Miss Bacchus's beauty and ability to make men fall in love, comparing her to Venus come down from the heavens

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