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Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Following from BCMSV 4312, epigram asserting that women who express evil or malice should be taken seriously
Title: [unknown]
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Attack on Eve's willing seduction by the devil, the birth of Cain as the devil's son, and the evil and malice of all women; based on Genesis
Title: Kinge Herod. The great prodigall foole and of Herodias
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: On St John the Baptist's death at the hands of Herod (from Mark 6), claiming the actions of Herodias and her daughter as proof of female malice; attack on women
Title: To Mr Pope, on his Dunciad
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1729 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Outspoken attack on Alexander Pope for writing the "Dunciad", thereby undoing
all his previous achievements; criticising it for malice, profanity, and using
Homer as its model.
Title: Written by Mrs Madden daughter to Spenser Cowper, upon reading a poem call'd
Sarah to Lothario, reflecting on her father
Author: Madan, Judith
Attribution: Mrs Madden
Date(s): 1727 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Attack on the malice and heartlessness of the unnamed author (probably the
dramatist Charles Buckingham) of a poem reviving the slanderous suggestion
that the newly deceased judge Spencer Cowper had, when young, murdered the
Quaker Sarah Stout.
Title: In gratitude is ever malicious
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the strength of feeling, or hatred, aroused by the betrayal of friendship
Title: Confidence
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 160- or 161- ?
Manuscript: Lt 25
Contents: Epigram on the need to be wary of placing trust in those that appear least
harmful
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translated Italian proverb proposing that a good life is the best form of revenge upon a malicious enemy
Title: On the death of Mrs Buckworth who died of the smallpox
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of a Mrs Buckworth, who cannot be restored to life by either tears or poetry
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translation from the Greek anthology (given in Latin) suggesting that even dead stepmothers are not to be trusted
Title: Psalme 129
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 129
Title: Psalme 6
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 6