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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
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
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Marriott, Eliza
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
Title: Character of a lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: On the admirable qualities of a woman's character
Title: Psalme 91
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 91
Title: A dialogue between Pluto and Oliver
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Satirical humorous song in which Pluto, or the devil, summons (probably) Oliver Cromwell to hell. In dialogue form, ending with a chorus.
Title: Lib 1, Ode 9 by Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Translation of Horace, Odes I.9, on the need to enjoy the present moment, with particular reference to the pleasures of youth
Title: Upon Bloods late attempt of borrowing the crowne
Author: Marvell, Andrew
Date(s): 1671
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Satire on the priestly disguise worn by Colonel Thomas Blood
when attempting to steal the crown jewels. Translated from the
Latin version which follows.
Title: A hugh and cry after fair Amoret. 1696
Author: Congreve, William; or
Attribution: E. D---t
Date(s): 1696
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Lighthearted satire on a coquettish girl, probably Mary Berkeley, daughter
of Viscount Fitzhardinge (thus identified in the margin)
Title: Extempore verses made to Mr Sp--s by Mr B--rst on asking for a play day.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Mr B--rst
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Requesting a 'play day' now that warmer weather has arrived. Presumably relates to Tonbridge School.
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: Constantinople
Author: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Attribution: Ldy: M--- W--- M--- (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1717
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Reflections on and description of the beauty and warmth of Constantinople (in particular compared to a chilly winter in Britain), celebrating the life she is living there, despite the loss of the city's former glories