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Title: Emmets changed into men
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Aeacus's prayer to Jove that those killed in the plague might be replaced, and Jove's transformation of ants into men; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VII
Title: Caenis a woman chang'd into a man
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Caenis's transformation into a man who may not be harmed by weapons, following her rape by Neptune; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XII
Title: The ashes of Memnon chang'd into foules
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the creation of the birds called the Memnonides from the funeral ashes of Memnon, at his mother Aurora's request; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XIII
Title: Cygnus chang'd into a bird of his owne name
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the fight between Achilles and Cygnus, the latter's death and his transformation into a swan; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XII
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Witty epigram comparing women's ever-changing fashions with the changes of the moon. Translating preceding Latin lines, themselves preceded by: "Of the mutable state of the moone thus writeth a poet".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Criticism of a body of clergymen for disobediently changing their doctrinal
position
Title: Vertumnus turn'd into an old woman
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Vertumnus's shape-changing attempts to gain Pomona's love; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XIV
Title: Vertumnus to Pomona
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Ld: B--ke (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Love poem, a plea to 'Clara' to be kind and true to 'Harry' and change to a more virtuous way of life
Title: Vicar of Bray [on the clergy (index)]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical song on a clergyman who changed his religious allegiances and
practices according to the politics of the time
Title: The Kentish ballad or the church upon a pole. To the tune, They are all undone.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Ballad on the attempts to change the church, naming several religious controversialists and praising the stand taken by the men of Kent
Title: Chast conjugal love
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 84
Contents: In praise of the virtue of faithful married love as leading to greater happiness than is obtained by the sin of continually changing lovers
Title: Semper idem or tempora mutantur
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Questioning the wisdom of the Jacobite sympathies of Jaques Sterne, Precentor of York, advising him to change his political loyalties