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Title: Five
Author: Morris, Castilian
Attribution: [C. Morris]
Date(s): 1695
Manuscript: Lt 56
Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Five, on the need to be prepared
for death continually
Five poems in a single hand
1680s
The poems are political and religious satires of the late seventeenth century
Five poetical satires on affairs of state.
c.1703-1710
Comprises five satirical poems on early eighteenth-century affairs of state, supporting the high-church cause; three of them are on the Sacheverell affair.
Title: Verses on the planting five trees on an eminance at Berring Castle, the seat of the Right Honourable Thomas Harley in Herefordshire, 1775
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1775 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Pastoral poem on five trees planted near Berrington Castle in Herefordshire by five sisters named Martha, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret - the daughters of Thomas Harley - praising their beauty and virtues. Notes on ff. 89v and 90v state that
Martha i
Compositional draft of five devotional poems by Ralph Knevet, on the verso of a copy of the Ortelius map of the Kingdom of Prester John
Knevet, Ralph
1640s
The poems entitled 'Prayer', 'Sicknes', 'The world', 'Preaching' and 'Memory', together approximately 123 lines of verse in two columns, on the blank verso of: [Abraham ORTELIUS (1527-1598)]. Prebis...
Title: An epitaph on the monument of the late worthy and rev. Mr Brighton [Beighton]
(sic) of Egham, who was vicar of that place forty-five years
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Craftsman, or Say's Weekly Journal for [Saturday] June 20 1772, p.4 col.3
Date(s): 1772 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epitaph on a clergyman, Mr Beighton, praising unreservedly his virtues as a
parish priest
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Five reasons for drinking wine, translating preceding lines by Horace
Title: A vertue. An exegetical excursion or explanation
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: On the necessity, for a virtuous life, of bravery directed by reason; with some revisions or corrections and cancellations. First in a sequence of five poems on moral fortitude.
Title: Garth's Dispensary [heading from earlier extract]
Date(s): 1699 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extract from The Dispensary by Sir Samuel Garth, Canto III, on the nature of death. Five lines are missing between the third and fourth lines
Title: An essay of morall fortitude. Definitum
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Epigram on the courage of the virtuous to act morally and accept the consequences of those actions, as introduction to the following sequence of five poems on moral fortitude. Heavily corrected.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: On the cruelty of five young women who release a fox to be chased by hounds purely for their own sport. On verso, "Drank coffe [i.e. coffee] and set forward".
Title: Both doe and suffer
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: On the bravery and suffering of the virtuous being equal to that of those who achieve military honour; with some revisions or corrections and two incomplete lines. Fourth in a sequence of five poems on moral fortitude.