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Title: Song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Wooing and love-making compared with laying siege to and attacking a town
Title: A Translation of part of Sappho taken out of the 3rd vol. of the Spectator
Date(s): 1711 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Version of Sappho's tragic love poem 'Ad Lesbiam', ending with the lover's death. Published in The Spectator No. 229, 22nd November 1711
Title: Sexennium. 1721
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1721 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: List, with comments, of important events in British national life, 1715-1721
Title: Psalme 118
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 118
Title: Upon the taking of a mistress
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Wooing and love-making compared with laying siege to and attacking a town
Title: The first 4 verses of the 46 Psalm paraphrased
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, expressing trust in God's help and protection in time of
need. Paraphrasing Psalm 46.1-4.
Title: Psalme 119
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 119, divided into named two-stanza sections
Title: A new catch in praise of the Revd Bishops
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1688 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: In praise of the stand of the seven bishops against James II's Declaration of Indulgence; dated '29 August 88'
Title: A true & lamentable song called the Earl's Defeat. To the tune of Chevy
Chase.
Author: Wharton, Philip; Duke of Wharton ?
Attribution: D. Wharton [Phillip Duke of Wharton (index)]
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Mock-heroic ballad of a drinking contest in Cumberland between the Duke of
Wharton and one Earl Harold, and their followers. Line 2 is glossed "A pint
glass at Sir Chr. Musgrave's", where the battle takes place.
Title: The cushion dance at Court by way of masque. To the tune of Joane Sanderson
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satire on Charles II's handling of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, seemingly
after the Rye House Plot; in the form of a dialogue between the king, the
future James II, and others, presented quasi-dramatically as a masque, with
refrains provided by a Chorus