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Title: Dives in hell
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem arising from the parable of Dives and Lazarus in Luke 16, contrasting the fates of rich and poor after death
Title: Juno goeth to hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Juno's visit to hell to ask for punishment for Bacchus and the house of Cadmus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV
Title: A description of hell. In imitation of Milton.
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Rowe
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Description of the horrors of hell and the terrible despair of sinners
(including Catholic persecutors of Protestants) who can see the heavenly bliss
they have lost. Imitating Milton.
Title: A description of hell in imitation of Mr Milton
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Description of the horrors of hell and the terrible despair of sinners (including Catholic persecutors of Protestants) who can see the heavenly bliss they have lost. Imitating Milton.
Title: Herculus draweth Cerberus from hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Cerberus, dragged from hell and slain by Hercules, whose saliva created the poison aconite; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VII
Title: Verses on life, death, judgment, heaven and hell
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A youth of 17
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Reflections on life, death, judgement, heaven and hell, using the metaphor of
a mercantile sea voyage
Title: A Romish Priest refus'd Entrance into Hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Satirical anti-papal poem about a priest refused entry to hell on the grounds that he might eat the devil, as on earth he ate his God
Title: Of a third place between heaven and hell which the papists do call purgatory
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem on purgatory as a place for those not fully repentant, between heaven and hell
Title: The complaint of a man who had a verie cross unquiet wife
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Complaining that a bad wife makes life hell for the husband
Title: Verses
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A youth from New England in his 14th year
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the terrors of hell and damnation awaiting unrepentant
sinners
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 31
Contents: Religious epigram, complaining that men live with no regard for death or the
prospect of hell
Title: Contemplation. Coming from the sacrament of the lords supper
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem on the sacrament, describing the ways to heaven and hell, and promising devotion to Christ