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Brotherton Collection11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse11

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Anonymous5
Dryden, John2
Tipping, William ?2
Ap. Tatler, 2, Vol.1, P.91
Hadassas1
Harrison, William1
Pulter, Lady Hester1

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Title: The medicin, a tale for the ladies

Author: Harrison, William

Attribution: ap. Tatler, 2, vol.1, p.9

Date(s): 1709 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Humorous tale of marital strife between a scolding wife and her

husband, in which the former is tricked by supposed medicine

into realising that her silence will make her husband loving

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On the efficacy of a unicorn's horn as medicinal antidote to poisons; preceded by woodcut

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Title: A riddle

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: A riddle on the drug or medicine Jesuits' bark (solution given), said to be

good for calming political passions

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Title: To the heavenly physitian

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Religious poem in time of sickness, appealing to Christ as doctor to dispense

mercy or if need be a harsher medicine

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Title: Coming from the sacrament of the lords supper

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on the sacrament, imagining Christ's blood as a medicine to cure all kinds of sickness, physical and spiritual

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Title: A dialogue between Skinner Spencer and Master Shadwell both before they went to the university at leaving the school

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: Dialogue between two young men on the merits of law, religion, medicine and the military as professions; presented at Tonbridge School

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Title: An ode to health

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Praising health as necessary to and desired by all conditions of men, giving

thanks for his own recovery from illness with the help of medicine

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem comparing Christian faith to a reviving medicinal herb eaten by the hunted deer. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.

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Title: Excercise the best physick

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 51

Contents: Arguing that health relies on an active life rather than on medicine and doctors; extract from Dryden's "Epistle to his honoured kinsman, John Driden".

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Title: A coppy of verses [verso]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1700 (published)

Manuscript: Lt q 46

Contents: Arguing that health relies on an active life rather than on medicine and doctors; extract from Dryden's "Epistle to his honoured kinsman, John Driden".

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Title: To a versifying apothecary at Bath

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Humorous criticism of a poetry-writing apothecary, claiming that he will put himself out of business, since anyone reading his verse will require no other purgative medicine

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