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Title: Mock song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Drinking song
Title: [unknown]
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Comparing the attitudes of Turks, Jews, and bad and good Christians to Christ, suggesting that Turks are more faithful than most Christians; preceded (f.226r) by a prose discussion of Christian custom between an Englishman and a Turk. Religious.
Miscellany of poems transcribed and in part composed by George Weller.
Weller, George
c.1750
Comprises 43 poems, including several relating to Tonbridge School and one addressed to members of the Austen family. The manuscript falls into four parts, divided by sections of blank pages: 'Edward ...
'Epistle to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland', by Samuel Daniel [Hatton Manuscript], with letter from Margaret Clifford to Lord North
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
c.1600
Folio manuscript, originally folded in two, presumed to be in the hand of Samuel Daniel, with occasional revisions. Daniel had been tutor to Margaret Clifford's daughter Anne. Written in a single hand...
Title: The character of a dangler
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: On lukewarm lovers who pay attention to women but fear or retreat from real
passion and involvement; ending with advice to act boldly, headed 'To the
dangler'.
Title: Micah 6.6 etc
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, on how only a virtuous life, not outward sacrifice, can
please God. Paraphrasing Micah 6.6-8.
Title: A paraphrase. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
Matt.V.v.3.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem praising those who show mercy (and castigating their
opposite), greatly expanding the beatitude (Matthew 5.7)
Title: The folly of Parents now a days in not giving their sons more warning
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from Oldham's poem, 'A Satyr Addressed to a Friend , that is about to leave the University, and come abroad in the World', which laments parents' indulgent treatment of their sons
Title: To the most renowned the President and the rest of the knights of the most
noble order of the Toast
Author: Settle, Elkanah
Attribution: E. Settle
Date(s): 1698 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Poem praising the Knights of the Toast, and appealing to them, as a tribunal,
to condemn both the Rev. Jeremy Collier, for attacking contemporary
playwrights, and Henry Heveningham. Followed by a prose 'envoy' signed by
Settle.
Title: A fit of the spleen, in imitation of Shakespear
Author: Ibbot, Benjamin
Attribution: Dr Ibbot
Date(s): 1722 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Imitation of a Shakespeare soliloquy, bidding farewell to the world and its
over-great burden of cares and sorrows, and anticipating death. Followed by
eight lines by Alexander Pope (BCMSV 2092) written in response.