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Colvil, Samuel6
Warton, Thomas; the Elder2
[Mrs Rowe]1
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Dr Watts1
Gay, John ?1
Rowe, Elizabeth1
Sir J-S Baker Kt To Lord Cad--N; [Latin]1
T. Wharton1
Watts, Isaac1

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the sublimity of the lamb of God in comparison to the offerings brought to Christ; with some revisions or corrections; attributed to Hugo Hermannus

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Title: Horace Epod. 4 imitated

Author: Gay, John ?

Attribution: Sir J-s Baker Kt to Lord Cad--n; [Latin]

Date(s): 1717 ?

Manuscript: Lt 46

Contents: Satirical attack on William Cadogan following his elevation to

the peerage as a baron, stressing his humble origins and

accusing him of financial embezzlement. Imitating Horace,

Epodes, 4.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram on how a simple, happy life of few possessions pleases God as much as any other kind; religious

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Title: Soliloquy 2

Author: Rowe, Elizabeth

Attribution: [Mrs Rowe]

Date(s): 1739 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, praising divine love as expressed in Christ's sacrifice for

mankind

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Dr Watts

Date(s): 1715 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: The first stanza of Watts's "Innocent play", here included in Coles's prose

autobiography

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Title: Horace Epod the 10th translated

Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder

Attribution: T. Wharton

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 33

Contents: Translation of Horace "Epodes," 10, imploring the winds to cause a storm and

sink a ship belonging to the poet Maevius

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Title: Mock poem or Whiggs supplication

Author: Colvil, Samuel

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 3

Contents: Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire, largely on the Scottish

Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English

lines.

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Title: Horace Ode the 17th Lib. the 2nd paraphrastically translated

Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder

Attribution: Wharton; [Latin]

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 33

Contents: Translation of Horace, Odes, II.17, asserting his love for Maecenas and his

determination to accompany him even in death

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Title: Mock poem or Whiggs supplication. Part II

Author: Colvil, Samuel

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 2

Contents: Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters,

ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines. Follows on Part

One (BCMSV 303).

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Title: The factious crew or Presbyterie di[s]plaid

Author: Colvil, Samuel

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 63

Contents: Part Two of Colvil's "Mock poem", a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the

Scottish Presbyterian covenanters. In this case the Latin version of the

final 36 lines precedes the English

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Title: Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part Second

Author: Colvil, Samuel

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 74

Contents: Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish

Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English

lines

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Title: Mock poem or Whiggs Supplicatione part second

Author: Colvil, Samuel

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 120

Contents: Part Two of Colvil's "Mock poem", a long Hudibrastic satire, largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines.

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