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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

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Stre'phon to Phoebe : ballad

Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)

[ca. 1800]

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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