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Brotherton Collection7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7

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Anonymous7
Miss M---Soe1

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Title: The womens complaint to Venus. 1699

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1699 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Obscene song, accusing men of neglecting women in favour of homosexuality.

See also BCMSV 178

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Title: Venus's reply

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1699

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Obscene song, answering the women's complaint (BCMSV 177) with the charge

that they too are indulging in homosexuality

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Title: The converted sinner written by himself

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem of thanksgiving to God for saving the writer, a sinner, from

likely damnation

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Title: At her majesties return from St Paul's

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1713

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Thanksgiving to God, a hymn sung to Queen Anne by charity children at the

celebrations in London for the peace with France. Under the same overall title

as BCMSV 871.

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Title: On hoop peticoats and broad hats worn by the ladys

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: On the contrast in women's fashion between dresses that expose the legs and hats that cover the face

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Title: A dream interpreted for marriage

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: Interpretation of a dream about death as (possibly ironically) concerning marriage to his beloved, for which the dreamer longs, but on waking he realises its fulfilment is unattainable.

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Title: An Ode. By Miss M---soe, occasioned by reading Sonnets in the Stile and manner of Spencer, written by Tho: E---ds, Esqr. 1751.

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Miss M---soe

Date(s): 1751 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: Reflections in praise of poetry (sonnets) written by Thomas Edwards (?) in the style of Edmund Spenser

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