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Title: A panegyrick on the ladies: being Chaucer's recantation for the foregoing song [BCMSV 3565]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Supposed mock-recantation by Chaucer for his preceding poem on the tricks of women in love [BCMSV 3565], praising their constancy and silence. In the form of "Recitative" followed by "Air" and "Chorus".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Included in a humorous, flattering "Longwinded Epistle, or a
Prevarication on the Tipp of a Neats Tongue sent by a faire Lady
from the Feather Tavern in Clarkenwell to exercise a wild
fancy", in prose, ff.121v-28v, making out that silence is a
greater ind
Title: On the nativity of Christ
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving on Christmas Day, for Christ's
nativity or incarnation
Title: The divine monitor
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem giving thanks for the inner voice of God that guides and
teaches the right way through life. With marginal biblical references keyed
from within the text.
Title: To a vaine babbler
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram advising that those who are anxious that their secrets might be betrayed would do better not to share them
Title: Epithalamium
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On the ceremonies of marriage and the anticipated pleasures of the wedding night, at last giving full scope to love
Title: Labeo
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Satirical epigram on one Labeo, who looked wise but spoke foolishly. Revised.
Title: The parting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Looking ahead to death, despairingly reflecting on how the soul and body will
manage when the time comes; religious.
Title: Orpheus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Orpheus's charming of the trees and beasts with the music of his harp; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X
Title: In Yarmouth churchyard, Norfolk
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Tombstone inscription or epitaph in memory of a good husband. Followed by two
lines on the widow's later death.
Title: A satyr
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Sastire attacking unchaste women and their foolish men, listing particular cases, but in the end relenting to exempt the truly beautiful; includes anti-Irish sentiment
Title: To a friend. From the country.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Expressing distress at being obliged by family duty to remain in the country when he longs for the society of town or city and the company of friends