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Title: On the city of Paris
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram ironically congratulating Paris on being the most unpleasant and vice-ridden city anywhere
Title: A rough skitch of Paris a la mode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: Satire on fashionable French manners, modes of dress, and sexual behaviour
Title: An epitaph upon a tomb near Paris
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 178-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Riddling epitaph supposedly from a tomb near Paris, preceded by 'Here lies'
Title: The perfect enjoyment
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Erotic poem describing and celebrating love-making, Paris and Helen being the
imagined lovers
Title: The following verses were written in 1772 on the new Church of Genevieve patroness of Paris. This church was not finished in 1793 but was converted from its original purpose into a Pantheon for the worthies of France. They are highly prophetic of
the stat
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Evening Mail Dec. 24 1802; [Latin]
Date(s): 1802 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Literal translation of verses apparently prophesying the ungodly state of France after the French Revolution, but in fact occasioned by the construction of the Church of Genevieve, Paris, in 1772
Title: In comendation of the Louvre
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 167
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Satire on Louis XIV and the Louvre palace in Paris, translating
two preceding Latin lines. Cf. BCMSV 2575.
Title: The rival friends
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: In praise of two sisters, one married, one not, who are each other's sole rival in beauty; comparing the situation to that of the Judgment of Paris
Title: [In comendation of the Louvre]; Burlesqued by my Lord Buckhurst
Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset ?
Attribution: My Lord Buckhurst; [Latin]
Date(s): 167-
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Satire on Louis XIV and the Louvre Palace in Paris, a burlesque
translation of two preceding Latin lines (and following another
such translation, BCMSV 2574).
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Lighthearted praise of an amateur French dentist, as explained in a note:
"Monsieur Thomas a mountebank upon the Pont Neuf at Paris drew teeth gratis
(as we were told by the newspapers of that time) in honour of the birth of
the Dauphin, 1729", i.e. Louis
Papers of John Salvio.
Salvio, John
c.1698-1736
Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of various sizes, including orders and receipts, a page of calligraphic writing exercises, pages of geometrical and navigational drawings, a r...
Title: Dryden's Translation of Theocritus
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from Dryden's 'Daphnis and Chloris', translated from Theocritus, in which Chloris vows to preserve her virginity. Printed in 'Sylvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies' [edited by Dryden]
Title: Dryden's Translation of Theocritus [heading from previous extract]
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from Dryden's 'Daphnis and Chloris', translated from Theocritus, in which Chloris argues against marriage. Printed in 'Sylvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies' [edited by Dryden]