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Brotherton Collection7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7

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Anonymous5
[Bible]1
Dryden, John1
Hall, Henry, the Elder1

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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

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Title: The oracle

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 168- ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Obscene riddle on a cure for sleeplessness

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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

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Title: A riddle

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 168- ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: A riddle, on something that every man worships. No solution given.

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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.

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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

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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".

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