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Title: Translation
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: A translation of preceding Latin lines, humorously suggesting that a reason to drink can always be found.
Title: A kind of translation
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Meditation on the state of nature and humanity, questioning the determining roles of the gods; translation of the opening of Claudian, 'In rufinum', I; with some revisions or corrections
Title: An epigram of Secundus translated
Author: Ellis, John
Attribution: Mr John Elis; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 88
Contents: Epigram on a husband preferring to dine apart from his wife, apparently
translated from Johannes Secundus.
Title: Psalm 121 translated
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as protector of mankind, paraphrasing Psalm
121
Title: Psalm 23 translated
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as mankind's protector, comfort and guide,
paraphrasing Psalm 23
Title: Translated out of Spanish
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Telling a young woman that those she admits as lovers may trouble her more
than suitors entreating her for favours
Title: A Latin epigram translated
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On the cowardice of a man whose bravery relates to love rather than war, remarking that he is more like Venus than Mars
Title: Solis in amplexte, translated
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: On Venus's guilt respecting her love affair with Mars. Latin original not given.
Title: A Translation from Simonides
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: A mother places her infant child in a casket, and sets it in the sea, praying that Jove will guard it; translated from Simonides
Title: Dryden's Translation of Theocritus
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from Dryden's 'Daphnis and Chloris', translated from Theocritus, in which Chloris vows to preserve her virginity. Printed in 'Sylvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies' [edited by Dryden]
Title: Horace, Epod 7 translated
Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder
Attribution: T. Wharton; [Latin]
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 33
Contents: Translation of Horace "Epodes," 7, castigating the Romans for making civil
war while their enemies prosper
Title: The 84th Psalm translated
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God and the happiness of those who dwell with and
trust in him. Paraphrasing Psalm 84.