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Title: Calisto and Arcus translated amoungst the starrs. Ursa major.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Jove's placing Callisto and Arcus among the stars to stop Arcus from killing her, and Juno's angry reaction; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the vanity of major projects when we are restricted by our own human shortcomings
Title: Butterford at Pudeford etc
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-?
Manuscript: Lt 102
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two friends, Strephon and Theron; the majority of the poem consists of Theron describing the attractions of the women he knows in Butterford
Title: An excellent new ballad upon the British herring fishery, to the tune of
Packingtons pound
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1750 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Humorous ballad, lightheartedly satirising Parliament's decision that
Britain, a major naval power, should greatly expand its herring fishing
industry, for commercial reasons