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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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