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Title: An epitaph on Mr Cole who lived temp. Jacobi primi
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Witty epitaph playing on the name of one Cole, asserting his eventual
resurrection on the Day of Judgement
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Proverbial verses, translating preceding Latin lines, included in Coles's
prose autobiography
Title: On a leg of mutton. A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: On the pleasure of eating mutton, describing the cooking and the meal. At
end, "B. Coles, 21 February 1740/1".
Title: The answer
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1721 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Pastoral love poem. An answer to "Collins complaint" by Nicholas Rowe, BCMSV
22. At end, "B. Coles. 24th December 1740".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: A poem of devotion to a friend or lover, translating preceding four lines of
Latin. Follows Coles's poem to Col. Merwick (see BCMSV 95) and may be
intended as a tribute to him.
Title: An imitation of Horace Lib. 1 Ode 9, Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Translation of Horace, "Odes", I.9, an exhortation to enjoy life's present
pleasures while young. At end, "B. Coles, 3rd Jan. 1740/1 at Forster House
near Egham in Surry".
Title: A clergy-man's wish
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Description of the ideal life of a country parson, contrasted with the cares
of contemporary politics. "Sally" in l.45 is identified in the margin as
Sally Martin of Bristol. At end, "B. Coles, Philologist, 3rd Janry 1740, at
Great Forster's near Egham in
Title: Coronis is shot through with a dart by Phebus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the raven telling Apollo of Coronis's unfaithfulness, as a result of which he kills her and turns the raven black; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II