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Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram on how Jews, Turks and Christians diverge in matters of religion, but are united in their love of money
Title: A poem occasiond by his Majesties most gratious resolution declard in his most Honourable Privy Council March 18, 86, for liberty of consciences [A poem on toleration, March 18, 86 (verso)]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1687
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Celebration of James II's Declaration of Indulgence, claiming that this will put an end to faction and rebellion, uniting the realm
Title: [unknown]
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem expressing devotion to Christ and a desire to be united with him in heaven. Preceded by woodcut of Christ on the cross.
Title: To Sylvia - presented with a Ring, bearing this Motto, The Nonpareil
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Witty 'tete a tete' between the poet and Venus, in which the the poet asks about the possibility of perfection in a woman ('Perfection's right epitome'); and Venus replies that only one woman is perfect, and unites all of womankind's virtues -
Sylvia, the
Title: To a young lady with red hair, hence Rufa, in Wakefield, who called some gentlemen of the University of Cambridge a parcel of skipkennels. Matt. Rob. Arnott and Mr Garlick both gentlemen and scholars they united to make the following verses
Author: Arnott, Matthew Robert; Garlick, John
Attribution: Matt. Rob. Arnott; Mr Garlick
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Answer to a young lady's criticism of Cambridge University students, lamenting women's preference for military uniforms over the scholar's simpler form of clothes, and suggesting that she will find admirers only if she reforms her bitter temper
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester ?
Attribution: E. of R.
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Epigrammatic love poem
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester ?
Attribution: L. Rochester
Date(s): 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Epigrammatic love poem
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Reflections on the nature of a successful work of art
Title: On solitude
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: In praise of books and reading for filling and inspiring the mind better than
wine, providing a godlike perspective on the world
Title: Epigram
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Satirical verses suggesting that Scotland is not a place to which the Scots might want to return
Title: Arrt & nature make a poet
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the necessity for poets to possess both natural genius and art
Title: Riddle the 4th by the same
Author: Delany, Patrick
Attribution: [The Reverend Dr Delany]
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Riddle. Solution not given