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Title: Memento, Mori. If More be spelt MOOR and read backward tis Room (or dwelling place) and this room shall entertain my anigram to the remembrance of the now happie and ever blessed babe, S.M.
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Epitaph directed at one of the deceased children, contrasting the small room afforded him/her on this earth with the heavenly room now open to him/her. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham,
Suffolk.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 1702
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Lines on the death of an infant with the initials S.M. (in the left-hand margin of the poem). Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Anna', with six additional lines, on the theme of the vanity of worldly pleasures. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: In praise of the Virgin Mary, divided into four sections, three of them written down the page, but one written sideways, and with alternative wordings, so as to bring out how a woman (Eve and Mary) brought both death and salvation to mankind
Title: A serious reflection 'on past judgments plainly discov'ring, England's ingratitude
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Moralising religious verse, arguing that the tempest of 1703 was a reflection of the nation's corruption at the time; ends with praise of Queen Anne; the words 'ita, fiat' follow the final stanza
Title: An Epitaph to the Remembrance of that Pious and vertuous Maiden Gentw, A, F. (late of S, in the countey of Suffolk) who exchanged this transitory life for everlasting happiness in the month of April 1706. Aged - years.
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: On the death of a gentlewoman, A.F., and more generally the transience of human life, and the glories of heaven. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk; followed by two of the lines repeated
with g