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Title: Heliades turned into trees
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the transformation into trees of Phaeton's mourning sisters, the Heliades; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II
Title: Daphne turned into a lawrel-tree
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Apollo's pursuit of Daphne (Daphnis) and her transformation into a laurel tree; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, I
Title: Dryope turn'd into a tree
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Dryope's transformation into a tree as punishment for unwittingly picking flowers containing a nymph; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IX
Title: Myrraha turn'd into a tree
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Myrrha's transformation into a tree, and the birth of her son; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X
Title: Philemon and Baucis turn'd into trees
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the transformation of Philemon and Baucis's cottage into a temple, and of their own transformation into priests and finally trees; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VIII
Title: Cyparissus turn'd into a cypresse tree
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Cyparissus's transformation into a tree as a result of his grief at killing his favourite tame hart; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X
Title: The shepherd Apulus turn'd into a wild olive tree
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the transformation of Appulus into an olive tree as punishment for his mockery of the dancing of a band of nymphs; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XIV
Title: A song to the tune "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure"
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Some members of the Trough Society
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: A song on the attitude of Bob Whitsitt and others to drinking at the (Irish?) Trough Society
Title: Verses on the planting five trees on an eminance at Berring Castle, the seat of the Right Honourable Thomas Harley in Herefordshire, 1775
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1775 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Pastoral poem on five trees planted near Berrington Castle in Herefordshire by five sisters named Martha, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret - the daughters of Thomas Harley - praising their beauty and virtues. Notes on ff. 89v and 90v state that
Martha i
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: On the appropriate places to plant particular kinds of tree; translating preceding Latin lines
Title: Orpheus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Orpheus's charming of the trees and beasts with the music of his harp; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X
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