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Title: Pithon slaine by Appollo
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the creation of beasts and serpents from mud and heat, including the serpent Python who is killed by Apollo; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I
Title: The fidlar & nightingale. A tale. From Faminius Strada
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: On a musical contest between a fiddler and a nightingale. Translated from
Strada's "Prolusiones", II.6.
Title: The fidler & nightingall. A tale. From Faminius Strada
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Attribution: [Latin]; B. Coles
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: On a musical contest between a fiddler and a nightingale. Translated from
Strada's "Prolusiones", II.6, 1617. At end, "Note, A Printer at Reading got
30 pounds by printing this & selling it at 2d & paper, and never gave the
author a bottle of wine. Now if
Title: Why the thunder never strikes the lawrell
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: A version of the legend of Apollo and Daphnis
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Suggests that alcohol reveals but does not produce vice; translation of Seneca
Title: On Zeno's cloak
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the Greek philosopher Zeno, protected by his cloak from weather and
illness
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1685 (heading)
Manuscript: Lt 86
Contents: Religious poem arguing that a sick person should not be angry with God, since his reward after death will be the same as a healthy working man's
Title: To the returning sun
Author: H., J.
Attribution: J.H.
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Celebrating the return of the sun in spring time and its effect on nature and the countryside
Title: The female politician, 1734 [shorthand or cipher follows]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1734 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Advice to an outspoken, argumentative young woman not to get involved in
passionate, political discussions but behave sweetly so as to remain
attractive. Answered by BCMSV 2151.
Title: Impromptu. At Bath
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Archdeacon of -----; St. James Chronicle Dec 23 to 25th 1790.
Date(s): 1790 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Satire railing at the machinations at Bath of one Parr, probably the clergyman and writer Samuel Parr, whose politicking for eccesiastical preferment the author considers too obvious to succeed
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1703 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Bawdy satire on an Oxford University don, a clergyman, within the mainly
prose "Terrae filius speech, Oratio prima", delivered at Oxford, 10 July 1703
Title: To the King
Author: Saltmarsh, John
Date(s): 1639 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 30
Contents: In praise of Charles I and against the Scots at a time of unrest in Scotland, arguing that the Scots are less loyal to the king than the English because of their greater physical distance from him