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Title: Vol 1st, Book 4th (f.89v). Extracts out of Orlando Furioso (heading f.90v)
Author: Hoole, John
Date(s): 1783 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Commenting on the multitude of dangers facing man, and argues that a 'blameless art' acts as an effective defense against these. One of a number of extracts from Hoole's translation of Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' (BCMSV 6165-6184)
Title: [unknown]
Author: Butler, Samuel
Date(s): 1678 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Satire on the Church of England; extract from Butler's "Hudibras",
III.1.1285-90
Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.
Barnes, Joshua
1708
Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem on the misery of love for anything other than God; headed 'Sep 3 90'
Title: Devout soliloquies. Soliloquy 1
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God the creator
Title: Apollo & Daphnis: a fable from Ovid
Author: B, R
Attribution: [Latin]; Mr R.B. (f.72r)
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: The legend of Apollo and Daphnis translated from Ovid, "Metamorphoses", I.
At end, "4th February 1740/1", with a note referring to the Latin original on
f.72r.