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commonplace-books1
english poetry1
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[Bible]1
F.; [Bible]1
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax1
Prior, Matthew1
Shakespeare, William; and Tate, Nahum1
T.M. [At End]1
Tunstall, William1
Will. Tonstall1
Wodehouse, Edmund1

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Title: Hans Carvel. De la Fontaine imitated. Adapted to the E. of Ranelagh. 1700

Author: Prior, Matthew

Date(s): 1700 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Comic tale about an impotent husband and his young wife, freely adapted from

La Fontaine, "Contes", II.xii; here said to apply to Richard Jones, Earl of

Ranelagh

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Title: To Mr Ch. S--r. W-- Park, Nov. 29, 1731. [Lyric (?) to Mr Ch.

Stonor on leaving W-- Park in the winter (verso, i.e. p.190).]

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: T.M. [at end]

Date(s): 1731 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 44

Contents: Address to a landowner, Charles Stonor, lightheartedly

critical of the absence of water at his house and estate in both

summer and winter. Headed 'Sir', and with a monogrammed TM at

end.

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BC MS Lt 40, f. 52v: The opening of Sir Philip Wodehouse's poem
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Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse

Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)

c.1664-1715

Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...

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Title: On life

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: On the suffering of human life and the closeness of death

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Title: A reflection

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious reflection on the suffering of human life compared with the

happiness of heaven

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Title: A birthday meditation

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem reflecting on a life of folly and vanity, and asserting

devotion to God in future

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Title: Psalme 99

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 99

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Title: The Kentish ballad or the church upon a pole. To the tune, They are all undone.

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: Ballad on the attempts to change the church, naming several religious controversialists and praising the stand taken by the men of Kent

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Title: A ballad on Sir William Clifton

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1680 ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Satirical ballad on the rivalry of London society ladies to be the husband

of a rich knight from the country, Sir William Clifton

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Title: The parting of Richard 2nd & his queen Isabella

Author: Shakespeare, William; and Tate, Nahum

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's play "King Richard II", V.2, slightly

abridged, in which the king and queen take leave of one another

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Title: From Will. Tonstall in the Marshalsea to Charles Wogan in Newgate. Tune, To

all the ladies, etc [A song (headline)]

Author: Tunstall, William

Attribution: Will. Tonstall

Date(s): 1716 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Lighthearted letter, using verse as a consolation for imprisonment, to a

fellow-prisoner, the Jacobite soldier Charles Wogan, held in Newgate after the

battle of Preston. Marginal identifications of two people mentioned

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Title: Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God; [The sacred historie

conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669:

(contents page, f.ii recto)].

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 1669 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 2

Contents: Religious narrative, detailed retelling of the events of Genesis with

moralising and didactic commentary, and including (1), pp.157-60, a panegyric

to Charles II dated 29 May 1669, celebrating the Restoration and comparing him

to Joseph restored to greatn

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