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Title: The rich hypocondriack
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Suggesting that a rich hypochondriac's expenditure on doctors and medical care proves his foolishness; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", II.16
Title: To his rich mistris
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 162- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Address to a wealthy woman who wishes that he were rich, arguing that if she loves him she has the power to give him the wealth she desires
Title: On the parable of the rich man
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Latin] [Bible]
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Religious epigram based on the story of Dives and Lazarus, contrasting the fates of rich and poor after death
Title: The danger of great riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the corrupting influence of great wealth, particularly on the young
Title: Uselessenesse of great riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that the high value placed on jewels and other precious objects stems from the need to give meaning and value to otherwise useless wealth
Title: Against his marrying for riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Arguing that a man should always marry an inferior woman, since he will not be able to accept subservience to a superior one; translation of an epigram attributed to Martial
Title: Grow not rich too fast
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that the gradual accumulation of wealth is better than its rapid acquisition
Title: Upon the death of my Lady Rich
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1638 ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of Lady Anne Rich, wife of Robert, Lord Rich,
praising her beauty and virtues
Title: Lazerus begging at the rich mans dore
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem arising from the parable of Dives and Lazarus in Luke 16, contrasting the fates of rich and poor after death. Preceded by a woodcut of Lazarus before Dives' table.
Title: Upon a wordly [sic] rich man
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: On the paranoid concern of a rich miser for his wealth, arguing that his lack of trust in this world will make him less rich in the next
Title: R[iches] [--]t wee make th[e]m
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the differing attitudes to wealth of wise and foolish people. Title imperfect because of damage to leaf.
Title: Virtue is like a rich stone best plaine sett. 16 [.]mber 1643 post meridium.
Author: Tempest, Jo.
Attribution: Jo Tempsent (?, at end)
Date(s): 1643 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: Religious poem on the anxiety which comes from owning possessions, advising a life of simple devotion