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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
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm
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
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
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
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
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: On the beauty and charms of a young woman, perhaps a girl
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
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
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
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
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