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Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Moralising epigram or proverb: test something before putting faith in it
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram suggesting that tyranny and stringent laws are necessary to test virtue
Title: Caelia and Collin a pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Pastoral dialogue in which a shepherd vows to leave his scornful beloved, only for her to reveal that she was only testing his love. At top, 'HA'.
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1749 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Love song in which the woman explains she has been making trial of her lover, feigning disdain to test his constancy; printed in 'Six new English songs'
Title: Cephalus is loved by Aurora
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Aurora's desire for Cephalus, his rejection of her, her prophecy that he would lament his fidelity to his wife Procris, and his attempts to test Procris's fidelity; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VII
Title: The chair for groping the Popes being laid aside Pannonius gives us the reason
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Satire on the old practice of testing the gender of Popes, arguing that this is no longer necessary since most now have active sex lives before taking up the position, providing ample proof; paraphrasing preceding Latin lines
Title: [unknown]
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: On Solomon's conclusion, from experience, that worldly pleasures are vanity
Title: Catch in the year 1689
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1689 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Song praising drinking as better than arguing about religion or politics
Title: A new nothing. 1692
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1692 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satirical ballad on current affairs, especially in parliament, supposedly
spoken by William III
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Attribution: [Latin]; [Greek]
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Argues that affection between people is often fragile and based upon self-interest, and that only the wise and selfless truly love; preceded by Latin and Greek epigrams