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Title: The Rats and the Cheese
Date(s): 1717 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: A political verse satire, in which different groups of rats form political parties, with the intention of serving their own interests. There is an implied reference to Mandeville???s 'The fable of the bees'
Title: To the author of the Satyr Against Wit
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Apparently a reply to John Donne's 'Satire II', addressed to a doctor. Asserts that Donne's satire is fit only to be food for rats, but that it will kill the rats that eat it.
Title: A ratt
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: On the powers of premonition and revenge in rats; accompanied by woodcuts
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On poor husbands, contrasting them unfavourably with marmots which are supposedly more loving. Marginal note on source in Pliny. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.
Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: The maids answer
Author: Wells, Mr
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Answer to the preceding complaint: the young woman advises the old man to be reconciled to his age and consequent sexual limitations
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem on the need for compassion and the avoidance of pride, illustrated by tales. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated. Includes two lines inserted in the margin in what is probably the author's hand.