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Title: Strephon
Author: Radcliffe, Alexander
Date(s): 1680 or 1681 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satire on the central figure of a Whig political faction, noting his former fashionable behaviour and his current intriguing with the Green Ribbon Club
Title: To Strephon on his late recovery from sickness
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Damon
Date(s): 1750 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Thanksgiving to God for a friend's recovery from serious illness, praising
his life of virtue and religion (contrasted with that of heedless sinners) and
resolving in consequence to abandon thoughts of love and women. At end, "May
12, 1750".
Title: Riddle the 5th by the same. Louisa to Strephon
Author: Delany, Patrick
Attribution: [The Reverend Dr Delany]
Date(s): 1724 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Pastoral complaint, Louisa pleading with Strephon to remain her lover and
not desert her for another, also warning of vengeance. Seemingly not a
riddle.
Strephon's revenge : a satire on the Oxford toasts. Inscrib'd to the author of Merton walks
Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
1718
Anonymous. By Nicholas Amhurst. Half-title: 'The Oxford toasts: a satire.' - Verse. The author of 'Merton walks' is John Dry.
Strephon's revenge : a satire on the Oxford toasts. Inscrib'd to the author of Merton walks
Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
1720
Anonymous. By Nicholas Amhurst. The author of 'Merton walks' is John Dry.
A city intrigue: or, the sick lady's cure. A poem : With the comical adventure between Strephon and Sylvia
S. B
1714
Dedication, to 'The Honourable Mrs H----- A-----', is signed: S-------- B--------. With a half-title reading: The sick lady's cure. A poem.
Title: The pastoral at Tonbridge School May 14 1700 by Daphnis, Thomas Pickering, Alexis, Robert Kelk, Strephon, Thomas Brewer
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1700 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Pastoral disputation on musical skill between Daphnis, Alexis and Strephon; presented at Tonbridge School.
Title: The lost mistress
Author: Villiers, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Attribution: The D. of B.
Date(s): 1715 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Pastoral love poem, describing the grief and sufferings of Strephon on being forsaken by his beloved
Title: Pope's Pastoral
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: An extract from 'Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon', comprising a dialogue between the shepherds, Strephon and Daphnis
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song in which a young compares her feelings at being abandoned by her lover, Strephon, with a flower deprived of sunlight
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester
Attribution: Sir John Suckling
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the inconstancy and extremities of behaviour of those in love; extract
from Rochester's "Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne", here not in
dialogue form