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Title: Quid Romae faciam?

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 172- or 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 35

Contents: Advice to a friend not to frequent the court, being a way of life (requiring

flattery and deceit) unsuited to him

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Title: Verses in favour of Sr Frances Bacon Lord Chancellour of England Vicont of St Albons after his being dismist the house of Parliament and before his censor the author thinkinge that as hee had lived like a Romane epicure soe hee would have dyed with

a Roma

Author: Lewis, William

Date(s): 1621

Manuscript: Lt q 44

Contents: On the removal of Sir Francis Bacon from the Lord Chancellorship in 1621, praising his excellence, honesty and learning, and lamenting his fall

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