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Title: A certain speech in 173- versified
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1735 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Satirical ballad, an account of George II's speech to Parliament in 1735 on
foreign affairs, asking for money, representing him as a dullard with nothing
to say.
Title: On Miss Holt and Knox Ward Esq ['173' crossed through]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Lighthearted account of how a certain Knox Ward pretended to woo a Miss Holt
in marriage only to be accused and found guilty of breach of promise. With
numerous allusions to heraldry.
Title: To a lady more cruel than fair. 1698
Author: Vanbrugh, John, Sir
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Love poem
Title: Knowledge
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the pointlessness of acquiring knowledge considering the labour involved
and the nearness of death, and lacking a companion in the task
Title: Wrote on a Grave-Stone in a Country Church-yard.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Epitaph on the death of a young country woman, praising her innocence and virtues, and recommending her as an example
Title: Taken from Juvenal.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A young Gentleman, who died at the College at Dublin, aged 14. [Latin]
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On how difficult it is to return to virtuous behaviour after a life of sin and vice. Said to be in imitation of Juvenal.
Title: On the Countess of Dorc-----r. 1694
Author: Sackville, Charles; Earl of Dorset
Date(s): 1694
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satire on Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, lacking an additional
stanza often found in other manuscripts
Title: Speaking of Cymon, walking to his Farm - Dryden's Translation of Bocca[ccio]
Date(s): 1700 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: An extract from Dryden's translation of Cymon and Iphigenia by Boccaccio (in Fables, 1700). However, the last two lines are apparently from Dryden's translation of the eclogues and georgics of Virgil
Title: The horse & the olive, or War and peace
Author: Parnell, Thomas
Date(s): 1713 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Classical fable in which Jove awards the prize of Athens to Minerva's arts of
peace rather than Neptune's force of war; praising Queen Anne for choosing
peace after successfully waging war
Title: A pious epigram of Mr Gatakers written with his own hand a little before his end and found in his study after his decease
Author: Gataker, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Gataker; [Latin]
Date(s): 1654 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Religious poem in epigrammatic style, welcoming the fears, cares and suffering of approaching death; followed by a Latin version, headed 'Sic latio donetur a Jo. St' (?).