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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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]

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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

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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.

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