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Title: The cautious lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Advice to women to be cautious in encouraging or granting sexual
favours to men for fear of losing their power over them. Cf.the
following poem, BCMSV 2485.
Title: Of a lady in the snow
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On how the woman's resistance to her lovers' addresses, including Jove's, effects transformations by provoking tears and turning them to ice
Title: To a lady. In the country.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Argues that a woman's beauty is public property and should be displayed in the town or city rather than hidden in the country as her husband would wish
Title: Character of a lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: On the admirable qualities of a woman's character
Title: An item to the ladies
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that although men's vices allow them to advance in public life, women should practise virtue, since their vices serve no purpose
Title: The Lady's Skull
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Frugion [?], Lady's Magazine July 1776 (at end)
Date(s): 1776 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: A reminder that youth and beauty are transient, and a warning against vanity; only virtue can ward off decay.
Title: On a lady's singing
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Pastoral description of the effects of a lady's singing
Title: To a young lady knotting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Love song to a young woman, admiring the skill with which her
fingers perform knotting
Title: An advertisement of a lady's heart
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: Lighthearted plea for the return of a lady's heart, stolen by a highwayman
Title: Of a lady playing with a snuffbox
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Praise of a woman by comparing her to others who are personified as snuff, denoting their ability to give only short-lived pleasure
Title: The Sidonian. Inscribed to a lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Assertion that it is better to be loved by the woman to whom the poem is addressed than to be a king, thus making her empire of greater value. Begins with a probable reference to the Spanish succession of 1700.
Title: Under a lady's picture
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: In praise of a lady's imagined beauty, inspired by seeing her portrait, which has the power to cause the beholder to fall in love