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Title: On Voiture the French witt
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit, humour and
literary skill
Title: The excellencys of the French mode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: Satire on the popularity of French fashions; with an alternative fourth line interlineated
Title: On the French King's Lover
Date(s): 17--
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the unparalleled splendour of the French king, translated from preceding Latin lines
Title: The old gentry, out of French
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- or 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Witty epigrammatic verses on the equal derivation from Adam of all ranks of
men, alluding to the theories of William Whiston
Title: A sonnet translated out of French
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Lighthearted satire on Eve as an example of female inconstancy
Title: The British ambassadress's speech to the French king
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1712
Manuscript: Lt q 3
Contents: Outspoken satirical attack on the peace terms being offered to Louis XIV by
the Tory government to end the French wars, put into the mouth of Adellinda
Talbot, Duchess of Shrewsbury; accusing Queen Anne and Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford, of Jacobitism. At
Title: The Brittish ambassadress's speech to the French king
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1712
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satirical attack on the peace terms being offered to Louis XIV by
the Tory government to end the French wars, put into the mouth of Adellinda
Talbot, Duchess of Shrewsbury; accusing Queen Anne and Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford, of Jacobitism
Title: Advice about marriage. An imitation of a French satyr
Author: Brown, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Tho. Brown [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Satirical advice against marriage and women, with bawdy comment about the sexual demands made by wives
Title: The nature and qualitie of the Almain Italian French and Spaniard
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Describing and comparing the national characteristics of the Germans, the Italians, the French and the Spanish in matters of war, counsel, food, dress, carriage and love
Title: Verses imitated from the French of Mounsieur Maynard, To Cardinal Richlieu
Author: Stepney, George
Attribution: Mr Stepney; [French]
Date(s): 1706 ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lament for the decline of poetic and other powers as age and death approach,
conscious of the small part played in the victories of John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough
Title: Upon the French kings singing Te Deum for being beat
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1697 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satire on Louis XIV, defeated in war, behaving as though he had won
Title: An epitaph for the late Emperor Charles 6th. Translated from the French.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Epitaph lamenting the disastrous inheritance left to Maria Theresa upon the death of her father, the Emperor Charles VI, in 1740