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Title: To a gentleman who always gives a grand entertainment on his birthday
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Arguing against celebrating one's birthday because of the transience, brevity
and sorrow of human existence
Title: After the sacrament
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 84
Contents: Religious poem in praise of the eucharist and Christ's sacrifice in dying for mankind's salvation
Title: On the first fit of the gout
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lightly humorous verses on gout as an illness of the rich and great
Title: Epitaph on a country clergyman
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Tombstone inscription or epitaph on a rural clergyman, praising his virtues
Title: What Midas toucheth are turn'd into gold
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Midas receiving the gift of being able to turn everything into gold, and its consequences; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XI
Title: Verses from a mother to a daughter with Dr Carter's sermons
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A mother
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of the clarity and reason, in teaching the Christian religion, of
the sermons of (probably) Nicholas Carter, as if recommended by a mother to
her daughter