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Title: Hymn to Darkness [title on p. 238]
Attribution: Yalden
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Metaphorical poem on enlightenment, describing darkness and its unfathomability, as representing the unknown. With stanzas 7, 8, 11, 16 and 17 placed at the end and 3, 9 and 12 omitted
Title: Dispair
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Pastoral love poem of devotion and service to his beloved. The numbered
stanzas are disordered.
Title: Ode the 7th, Lib. 4th.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: The inevitablity of human death, likened to the cyclic character of the natural world. Paraphrased from Horace, Odes, IV.7
Title: The 4 or 5 advice to the painter, February 1671
Author: Marvell, Andrew ?
Date(s): 1671
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Satire on the court of Charles II and his conduct of affairs, in
the form of advice to a painter
Title: [unknown]
Author: Cary, Patrick
Attribution: John Patricke Carey
Date(s): 1651
Manuscript: Lt 68
Contents: On his wish to delay marriage in order to avoid being deceived or made a cuckold too soon, realizing it is unavoidable but comforting himself that he can create many cuckolds but only ever be one himself
Title: Advice to a painter 1671 (verso)
Author: Marvell, Andrew ?
Date(s): 1671
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satire on the court of Charles II and his conduct of affairs, in the form of advice to a painter
Title: Ode the 16th, Lib. 3rd. All things obey gold.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Riches bring greater cares; a modest income and peace of mind lead to happiness. Paraphrased from Horace, Odes, III.16