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Title: Psalm 114

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Spectator; [Bible]

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the acknowledgement of God's power by the River Jordan and

Mount Sinai when the Israelites returned from Egypt; paraphrasing Psalm 114.

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Title: Psalme 114

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 114

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Title: Psalm 114

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17-?

Manuscript: Lt 102

Contents: Religious poem on the acknowledgement of God's power by the River Jordan and Mount Sinai when the Israelites returned from Egypt; paraphrasing of Psalm 114.

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Title: A paraphrase on psalm the 114 [sic]

Author: Trapp, Joseph

Attribution: Mr Trapp; [Bible]

Date(s): 1745 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 103

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing (in fact) Psalm 104

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Title: A panegyrick to my Lord Protector, of the present greatness and joint

interest of his Highness & this nation. In the year 1654

Author: Waller, Edmund

Attribution: Waller

Date(s): 1655 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Panegyric, extravagantly praising Oliver Cromwell and his part in

contributing to the glorious condition of England and its high place and

reputation in the world. At end, "4 March 1740-1".

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BC MS Lt 114, f. ir:
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Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk.

Deynes, Charles

c.1670-1744

Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...

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Title: Mr Alexander Pope, January & May, in the Merchant's Tale from Chaucer / Speaking of a Wife said in the person of old January

Date(s): 1709 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: A transcription of a section of Alexander Pope's poem 'January and May', which is a version of Chaucer's 'The Merchant's Tale'. 114 lines are missing from the middle of this extract

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BC MS Lt 40, f. 52v: The opening of Sir Philip Wodehouse's poem
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Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse

Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)

c.1664-1715

Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...

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BC MS Lt 80, f. 57r: The opening of Hugh Wormington's poem
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Collection of original poems, translations and other material, including 'Poems and translations by Hugh Wormington'

Wormington, Hugh

c.1715-1723

First volume: f.1: blank and detached; f.2r: inscription, "Presented by the Marchioness De Crequy to Randle Jackson"; ff.2v-3v: blank; ff.4r-72r: "Sir Fantastick: or The metamorphosed beau. In four ca...

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Title: Of Musick

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16--?

Manuscript: Lt 114

Contents: In praise of God's music

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Title: Uppon Resurrection

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16--?

Manuscript: Lt 114

Contents: Religious poem on the wonders of the resurrection

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Title: Uppon Justification

Author: Strode, William

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 114

Contents: On the twin themes of justice and justification

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