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Title: On the business of Brest in 1692. To the tune of Which Nobody Can Deny
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1692 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical song on the rout of the english navy at Brest, 1692
Title: The oracle
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Obscene riddle on a cure for sleeplessness
Title: The balance
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Counselling a life of virtuous, happy moderation, ruled by reason, and
avoidance of the excess of worldly pleasures and ambitions
Title: A riddle
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: A riddle, on something that every man worships. No solution given.
Title: An imitation of the 14th psalm
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, contrasting the fear of death of sinners who reject God with
the confident hope of heaven of the virtuous; paraphrasing Psalm 14.
Title: An epitaph upon bona fide
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1715 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Satire on the death of Louis XIV, recalling events in his life and imagining his deathbed predictions for the future of Europe
Title: Excercise the best physick
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Arguing that health relies on an active life rather than on medicine and doctors; extract from Dryden's "Epistle to his honoured kinsman, John Driden".