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Brotherton Collection44
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse44

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Copied From the First (Originally) Plain Leaf of F. Vansleb'S Travels Printed1
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Philaretus, Oxon. Oct.17, 17421

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Title: On a dwarf courting a bright lady

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Complaining of a dwarf's unnatural ambition in attempting to gain a lady's love, contrasting it with the ambitions of giants and trees

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 91

Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 91

Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm; largely unreadable owing to damage to leaf

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1603 ?

Manuscript: Lt 25

Contents: On no star being bright enough to have foretold the death of a particular

queen, or princess, probably Elizabeth 1

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Title: Addressd to Rev Mr Wyvill on the Birth of his Son

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 177-?

Manuscript: Lt 100

Contents: On the occasion of birth of a son to the Reverend Mr Wyvill, wishing the child a bright future, and attributes such as justice, piety, and sympathy

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Title: To Miss M.H. on her working a gown

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 172- ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: In praise of a young woman skilfully embroidering a dress with bright

flowers, comparing their beauty with hers and contrasting their permanence

with the transience of natural flowers and human beauty

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 46

Contents: On the beauty and charms of a young woman, perhaps a girl

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Title: Psalm 121 translated

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as protector of mankind, paraphrasing Psalm

121

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Title: The rover

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Arguing for a life of honest freedom in love, not bound by vows of marriage

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Title: Of a lady in the snow

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: On how the woman's resistance to her lovers' addresses, including Jove's, effects transformations by provoking tears and turning them to ice

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Title: The complaint

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: On how the beauties of nature and the world are unable to lessen the impact of the loss of the poet's love

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Title: Presenting the book to a lady

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Presenting the poetry he wrote as a youth, a pursuit he has now abandoned in favour of more profitable labour

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