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english poetry4
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satire, english1
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Title: Lib. 1st, Epig. 50th. Reward makes labour easy.

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: Paraphrased from Martial, 'Epigrams', I.50. One of 'some few epigrams out of Martial and other books translated and immitated'.

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Title: [unknown]

Attribution: Hudibrass, p. 121/2

Date(s): 1663 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: Extract from Butler's 'Hudibras', I.1.343-44, 347-50, on the power of love

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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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BC MS Lt 73, f. 2r:
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The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem

c.1709-1742

Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 1...

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BC MS Lt 80, f. 57r: The opening of Hugh Wormington's poem
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Collection of original poems, translations and other material, including 'Poems and translations by Hugh Wormington'

Wormington, Hugh

c.1715-1723

First volume: f.1: blank and detached; f.2r: inscription, "Presented by the Marchioness De Crequy to Randle Jackson"; ff.2v-3v: blank; ff.4r-72r: "Sir Fantastick: or The metamorphosed beau. In four ca...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On his position as a stranger or outsider in the world, probably religious

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On the cunning nature of the fox

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Recommending others to read his bitter attacks on women

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Accompanying a woodcut of Christ on the Cross, arguing against the picture's use for idolatry; religious

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Title: The fox

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On the cunning nature of the fox. Followed by woodcuts of animals.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem expressing devotion to Christ

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Title: My Christ

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on devotion to Christ and rejection of the world

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