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Title: Fame
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aeneid" (IV.252, 255-73)
describing fame, or rumour, as a malicious winged monster of many eyes, mouths
and ears
Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham
Beetham, John
c.1670-1690
As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...