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Title: A perfect patterne of true felicity, framed to find the way of eternity [i.e. BCMSV 4621]. Verses [Verses concerning true felicity (index)]
Author: Tusser, Thomas
Date(s): 1580 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: Religious poem urging contentment with the gifts of god
Letter from John Bridger, Brookland, to his wife in Canterbury, 3 April 1728
Bridger, John
1728
The second page of the letter includes a transcription of a poem by "Mr Bunce's son" titled "To Mr Higmore a painter", in praise of the painter Joseph Highmore, celebrating his skill and claiming him ...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Tusser, Thomas
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: Couplet referring to eternal life, used as a title to BCMSV 4622
Title: [unknown]
Author: Milton, John
Attribution: Milt.
Date(s): 1674 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 56
Contents: In praise of God; extract from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Bk 5
Title: [unknown]
Author: Cooke, William ?
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: On the destruction of the innocent through the wrath of the gods, expressed through lightning; translating preceding Latin lines from Lucretius, Book VI
Title: A hymn to virtue
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of virtue, and its good and happy influence on mankind
Title: A Sonnet address'd to James Phipps Esq.
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: On friendship, and recuperation from illness
Title: My Lady Hyde
Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: In praise of the beauty of Jane, Lady Hyde (later Countess of Clarendon and
Rochester) as greater than that of Venus
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1698
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem suggesting that God's love inspires the soul just as the soul animates the body; headed 'Feb 6 98'
Title: Psalme 124
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 124
Title: A Christmas hymn
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving for Christ's Nativity, or
Incarnation, desiring the happiness of heaven
Title: Christmas morn
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving on Christmas Day, for Christ's
nativity or incarnation