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Title: Psalme 106
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 106. At end, "The ende of the 4th Booke of Psalmes".
Title: A Caracter of the Romish church by Francisco Petrarca an Italian, Cant. 106, "Flamma dal ciel su tua terccie pioue, etc."
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Italian]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 106, strongly criticising the court of Pope Clement VI, here taken to apply to the Roman Catholic church in general. At end, "Writt in Italian by Petrarch the poet about the yeare of our Lord 1320 and Englished by
F."
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Proverbial verses, translating preceding Latin lines, included in Coles's
prose autobiography
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
a grocer," included in his autobiography.
Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.
c.1745-1780
Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 1741 ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious verses on God's care for those who believe, translating preceding
Latin lines; included in Cole's prose autobiography
Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.
c.1750-1770
Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.
Title: An Epigram
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 177-?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Obscure epigram containing contemporary satirical reference
Title: An Epigram
Author: Wotton, Sir Henry
Attribution: Sir Henry Wotton; H.W.
Date(s): 16--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Witty epigram on one effect of the inequality of the rich and the poor
Title: To Lucinda
Date(s): 1764 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: In praise of a woman, Lucinda, implying her natural loveliness in preference to the diamonds worn by Celia
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of
his death
Title: The following lines are wrote in a window in the Long Room at Copenhagen House
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Epigram on man's proclivity to sin and the impossibility of human perfection