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Title: Little master or The Bath toast 1709
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1709 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Toast in praise of the beauty of a number of named young society women at Bath
Title: A little wish in imitation of the great Mr Phillips
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1736 (Crum)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Request for a fruitful country estate, a pleasant house and wife, and a quiet
life of moderation, parodying the style of Ambrose Philips
Title: The twitcher. Sung by Mr Pack at the theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1721 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Bawdy song in which a previously chaste aloof girl is successfully seduced
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Epigram or proverb on the significant results of saving little by little; translating accompanying Latin lines
Title: Munmouth degraded or James Scott the little king in Lyme. To the tune of
Heark how the thundering cannons roar.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Song supporting James II and encouraging soldiers at Lyme Regis to fight
against James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, at the time of the latter's rebellion,
satirically disparaging him and his commanders
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Recommending living with as little care or anxiety as possible
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Complaint that there is little art amongst the things enjoyed by most people
Title: An eye-feast
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: On an invitation to a meal, where the eye was fed with a display of possessions but there was little food; translation of an epigram ascribed to Martial
Title: Crinito
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Satirical epigram on one Crinito, who speaks in proverbs because he has little to say of his own. Revised.
Title: On a meere novice
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the naive wonder of those who venture outside their own little world for the first time, using the example of a frog exploring a field
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]; [Latin]
Date(s): 1620 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 22
Contents: On the happiness of having neither too much wealth nor too little, based on
a preceding Latin quotation from Proverbs 30.7. Cf. BCMSV 469.
Title: Lib. 5th, Epig. 64th. A chrystall glass.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Epigram describing how crystal may be broken through too much care as well as too little. Paraphrased from Martial, 'Epigrams', V.64. One of 'some few epigrams out of Martial and other books translated and immitated.'