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Title: The rape of the lock
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1714 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Lightly satirical mock-heroic tale of the cutting off of a beautiful young
society woman's lock of hair by an admiring lover. In five cantos. Appears to
combine readings from the 1714 and 1717 editions.
Title: To Mrs Locke with a Ring
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 178-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Poem in which a husband offers his wife (Mrs Locke) a ring to symbolise the renewing of the intitial marriage, recalled in the first two stanzas, describing the altered emphasis towards a developing recognition of virtues
Title: Epitaph on a puritanical lock-smith
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1637 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Humorous poem on a lock-smith who after his death intended to break into heaven
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Humorous, semi-nonsense rhyme on a clergyman who had locked up his wife. In
semi-Scottish dialect.
Title: Chloe to Celia upon a locket
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Giving thanks for the kindness of a gift of a lock of hair from a female friend, anticipating the happiness of the man who will win her
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Attack on Queen Caroline, wife of George II, urging him to lock her up as
George I had done with his wife
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on the fragility of memory and the need to remember what has been pleasing
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the drunken dancing of Hogshead, supposedly Bacchus's principal commander in India; translated from preceding lines from Nonnus, "Dionysiae"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the power of drink and drinking vessels as opposed to weapons of war, as a result of which Bacchus conquers rather than Mars; translating preceding Latin lines
Title: On Gellius
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: On Gellius's constant building work as an excuse for never lending money to friends; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", IX.46
Title: A pindarick ballad to the tune of Luxemburgh's march
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder ?
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Song in which a Scottish girl pleads with her lover not to fight in William
III's wars. Followed by "Jockey's answer", BCMSV 206
Title: Translations: Lib 2 Ode 14 Hor[ace]: Eheu te [Latin epigraph]
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: A version of Horace, Odes II.14, on human mortality and the the inevitability of death