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Title: To T.M. Esq. from the country
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Mixture of flattery and advice addressed to a younger man, possibly a patron, stressing his popularity and good fortune, and thanking him for his friendship and his role as inspiration for poetry
Title: To the same [i.e. T.M. Esq.]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On the qualities of the young man to whom the poem is addressed, whose absence or presence alike makes writing impossible
Title: R[iches] [--]t wee make th[e]m
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the differing attitudes to wealth of wise and foolish people. Title imperfect because of damage to leaf.
Title: To Mr and Mrs M-r
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Lines dedicated to the More family, four of whose seven children have died. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk; this is the final poem about this family, and is followed by a prose
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Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...