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Title: The rich hypocondriack
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Suggesting that a rich hypochondriac's expenditure on doctors and medical care proves his foolishness; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", II.16
Title: To his rich mistris
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 162- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Address to a wealthy woman who wishes that he were rich, arguing that if she loves him she has the power to give him the wealth she desires
Title: On the parable of the rich man
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Latin] [Bible]
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Religious epigram based on the story of Dives and Lazarus, contrasting the fates of rich and poor after death
Title: The danger of great riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the corrupting influence of great wealth, particularly on the young
Title: Uselessenesse of great riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that the high value placed on jewels and other precious objects stems from the need to give meaning and value to otherwise useless wealth
Title: Against his marrying for riches
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Arguing that a man should always marry an inferior woman, since he will not be able to accept subservience to a superior one; translation of an epigram attributed to Martial
Title: Grow not rich too fast
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram arguing that the gradual accumulation of wealth is better than its rapid acquisition
Title: Upon a wordly [sic] rich man
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: On the paranoid concern of a rich miser for his wealth, arguing that his lack of trust in this world will make him less rich in the next
Title: R[iches] [--]t wee make th[e]m
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the differing attitudes to wealth of wise and foolish people. Title imperfect because of damage to leaf.
Title: The gaining of a rich estate seems many times restrain'd by fate (=BCMSV 6064 1)
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Making out that whether or not one becomes wealthy is determined by fate
Title: On the first fit of the gout
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lightly humorous verses on gout as an illness of the rich and great
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: On the value of knowledge, learning and contentment as opposed to desire for riches