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Title: A modest wish
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, describing the uncontrolled and unprofitable nature of
undirected thoughts, praying for guidance that time might not be spent idly
Title: Modest woer
Author: Cheek, Thomas ?
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.79
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Extract from "An Answer to the Foregoing Letter" (from Henry Cromwell), commenting on his friend's lack of success in love-making
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Epigram expressing modest and pragmatic desires or wishes
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram asserting that those with modest needs and desires are usually satisfied
Title: Upon a virago
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: On how a wanton woman can never be the mother of a modest daughter
Title: Ode the 16th, Lib. 3rd. All things obey gold.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Riches bring greater cares; a modest income and peace of mind lead to happiness. Paraphrased from Horace, Odes, III.16
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the happiness of a modest way of life with wholesome meals, free from
anxiety; adapted from the preceding st.4 of Horace, Odes, II.16.
Title: The 16th ode of the second book of Horace imitated
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On true peace and happiness consisting in a quiet modest life of country
retirement, free from the cares of wealth and ambition. Paraphrasing Horace,
Odes, II.16.
Title: An Excursion or Sally
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Seemingly developed from the Latin source of BCMSV 4740 ('St Jerome ad Celestinam'), advising a woman to adopt a gentle demeanour and modest behaviour; with some alternative wording given.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Describing the beauty of Pandora; translated from Hesiod
Title: Epitaph on Mr Fenton
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1730 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epitaph on the poet Elijah Fenton, buried in Easthamstead, Berkshire,
praising his quiet, honest life
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: On the benefits of a moderate appetite; translation of Seneca