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Title: The following lines are wrote in a window in the Long Room at Copenhagen House
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Epigram on man's proclivity to sin and the impossibility of human perfection
Title: Verses in the Pump-Room at Bath, said to be written by a Gentleman of Oxford
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A gentleman of Oxford (title)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Poem said to be hung in the Pump-Room at Bath, composed in a mock archaic style. Followed by the word "EDGAR". Cf. the "Answer" on f.47r (BCMSV 6274), where the present poem is described as "the Hermitts address to youth, complaining of the vanity
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Title: Upon a chamber call'd Pernassus where the gentry-arms are painted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 38
Contents: Witty epigram commenting on coats of arms decorating a room called Parnassus,
possibly alluding to poetry
Title: The parting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Looking ahead to death, despairingly reflecting on how the soul and body will
manage when the time comes; religious.
Title: Philemon and Baucis kindly receive the gods
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the hospitality shown by Philemon and Baucis to Jove and Mercury; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VIII
Title: Aglauros turned into a stone
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Aglauros's envy of her sister Herse's happiness and her transformation into a stone by Mercury; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II
Title: The snail
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A Welch curate
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,
"25th February 1740/1".
Title: Of death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1672 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Comparing human life to a play (a tragedy) of four acts, with birth being the prologue and death the epilogue. Published in 'Reliquiae Wottonianae', with the title 'De Morte', signed 'ignoto' (unknown).
Title: Epitaphicall verses uppon the death of the universally beloved unspeakably lamented and eternally to bee remembred the really vertuous and truely noble Henry Veare Earle of Oxford and Lord High Chamberlaine of England
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1625 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of Henry de Vere, Earl of Oxford, stressing his virtues and nobility, and the sorrow of those who knew of his fame and reputation, which will be immortal