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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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