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Title: On worship. [Epigraph from John 4.22.]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, on true worship consisting not in external show but in a
loving and devout heart and spirit
Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.
Crofts family
1670-1833
Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...
Papers of John Salvio.
Salvio, John
c.1698-1736
Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of various sizes, including orders and receipts, a page of calligraphic writing exercises, pages of geometrical and navigational drawings, a r...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William ?
Date(s): 1619 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Note presumably referring to the preceding 4-line epitaph in French (signed
wx, i.e. William Fairfax) on Mary Fairfax, possibly the wife of Sir
Ferdinando Fairfax, who died 1619.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem on devotion and the accidents which disturb it; headed 'Oct 22'; with some revisions or corrections
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fairfax, William
Attribution: wxt [French]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: Witty reply to the opinion that poets are fools, translating a preceding
4-line poem in French. First line corrected.
Title: Discord
Author: Spenser, Edmund
Date(s): 1596 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: "The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the
underground dwelling-place of Ate, representing discord
The Quakers tea table overturn'd, the tea spill'd and all the china broke. A satyrical poem in 4 parts, by a lover of the ancient plainness and simplicity of that people
1717
Lengthy satirical and didactic criticism of Quakers for hypocritically allowing their daughters to indulge in the social fashion for drinking tea, coffee and chocolate, seeing this as an opening to gr...