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Brotherton Collection33
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse33

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Wodehouse, Edmund28
Anonymous1
By A Young Gentleman1
Farquhar, George1
The Late Ingenious Mr Fairquhar1
Wodehouse, Edmund?1
Wormington, Hugh1

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Title: The Voyage, written Aug. 18 1771

Attribution: By a Young Gentleman

Date(s): 1771 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 125

Contents: Account of a naval voyage from Plymouth by a young sailor, aboard The Somerset, under the command of Captain Hughes. The poem breaks off unfinished and is crossed out

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Title: Song, sung before the Queen, Aug. 27 1689

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1689

Manuscript: Lt q 48

Contents: Patriotic song of encouragement to William III in his wars against

France, addressed to Mary II. Cf. BCMSV 2603.

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Title: On the death of her late glorious majesty Queen Anne who died Aug. 1. 1714

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 1714 ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of Queen Anne, describing nature in mourning, but concluding that since she is in heaven she should not be grieved for

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the souls of the pious in heaven; headed 'Aug 5'; with some revisions or corrections

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem against the Catholic worship of Mary as a deity; headed 'Aug 8 1715'

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the thanks due to God for health and life; headed 'Aug 18 1714'

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the virtue of humilty; headed 'Aug 30 1715'; with some revisions or corrections

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Title: A night piece viz: then made

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the devotion of the heart; headed 'Aug 18 1714'; with some revisions or corrections

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on confidence in God; headed 'Aug 2d'; with some alternative wording given

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the necessity of belief in heaven; headed 'Aug 3 1715'; with some revisions or corrections

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on trust in God; headed 'Aug 10 1715'; with some alternative wording given

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on the need for prayer in times of happiness as well as distress; headed 'Aug 29 1715'

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