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Title: The womens complaint to Venus. 1699
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1699 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Obscene song, accusing men of neglecting women in favour of homosexuality.
See also BCMSV 178
Title: Venus's reply
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1699
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Obscene song, answering the women's complaint (BCMSV 177) with the charge
that they too are indulging in homosexuality
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
Title: The converted sinner written by himself
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of thanksgiving to God for saving the writer, a sinner, from
likely damnation
Title: Translations of Horace, Ode 3, Lib 1
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Translation of Horace, Odes III.1, entreating the gods to spare a ship from the perils it faces at sea
Title: Psalme 90
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 90
Title: At her majesties return from St Paul's
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1713
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Thanksgiving to God, a hymn sung to Queen Anne by charity children at the
celebrations in London for the peace with France. Under the same overall title
as BCMSV 871.
Title: On hoop peticoats and broad hats worn by the ladys
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: On the contrast in women's fashion between dresses that expose the legs and hats that cover the face
Title: A dream interpreted for marriage
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Interpretation of a dream about death as (possibly ironically) concerning marriage to his beloved, for which the dreamer longs, but on waking he realises its fulfilment is unattainable.
Title: An Ode. By Miss M---soe, occasioned by reading Sonnets in the Stile and manner of Spencer, written by Tho: E---ds, Esqr. 1751.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Miss M---soe
Date(s): 1751 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Reflections in praise of poetry (sonnets) written by Thomas Edwards (?) in the style of Edmund Spenser
Title: To The M---ss of G---y. 1747.
Author: Yorke, Margaret
Attribution: The Honble: Miss Margt: Y---ke.
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Requesting poetic inspiration, asking 'Graia' to act as muse to enable the author to praise
'Vacuna', who in a note on the opposite page is identified as the Goddess of W---st.
Title: An epistle from Lord Lovell to the Earl of Chesterfeild
Author: Pulteney, William; Earl of Bath
Attribution: Mr Poultney
Date(s): 1740 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Address to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, supporting him in
his desire for England to assert herself by war against Spain; as if from
Thomas Coke, Lord Lovel (later Earl of Leicester), satirising him. Lacks the
final stanza, owing to loss o