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Title: Of a lady at the opera drest in white
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Description of feminine purity, conveying the beauty of the woman as wholly natural and untainted by comparison with angels, sacrificial virgins and spirits
Title: On Bishop Kennets fancying himself designd upon the altar-piece of
White-chappel-church
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1710 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Attack on Dr White Kennett, later Bishop of Peterborough, whose picture had
been used to represent Judas in an altar painting in Whitechapel Church.
Adapting preceding Latin lines.
Title: The town rakes
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: A bawdy song, praising a life of drunken debauchery in east London. In a
note at the end, "the White Hart ale-house in Lambeth Street (Goodman's
fields) a very noted house for october. 26th December 1740".
Title: On Lady Katharine Hyde's picture, drawn by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Venus
mistaken.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lady Catherine Hyde, later Duchess of
Queensbury and Dover, praising her beauty as superior to Venus's.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: better to be poor and at liberty than rich and
in prison
Title: Judgement of complexions
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1623 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 25
Contents: Proverbial epigram on behaviour towards men of different colours or
complexions
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Moralising verses: trust that God who provides in nature will also provide
for you
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- or 18-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: In praise of a woman, with the name Annie Marie Stuart written beneath it
Title: The comical dreamer
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Humorous and lightly bawdy description of the various objects the dreamer
imagined his beloved to be
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Latin]; Catullus
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on a man so proud of his teeth that he grins at inopportune moments in order to display them, revealing only his foolishness
Title: Jeptha's vow
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Religious poem paraphrasing Judges 11 and focusing on the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, due to a rash vow made by Jephthah to God
Title: On the modern lampooners. 1690
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1690 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Attack on Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Monmouth (later Earl of Peterborough),
John Howe, and John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave