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Title: A hymn on Christmas-day
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving on Christmas Day, for Christ's
nativity or incarnation, recalling the angels' heavenly proclamation
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Religious poem anticipating the bliss of heaven, arguing that angels would
never choose to return to earthly life
Title: Of a lady at the opera drest in white
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Description of feminine purity, conveying the beauty of the woman as wholly natural and untainted by comparison with angels, sacrificial virgins and spirits
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: Religious poem on the attempt of the angels whom God expelled from heaven because of their pride to regain heavenly bliss; in the form of an acrostic reading "Patientius Ward".
Title: Of Musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--?
Manuscript: Lt 114
Contents: In praise of God's music
Title: A hymn
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, a prayer to God for guidance through the remainder of life
Title: One of ten thousand
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: On the unlikely chance of finding a woman free of all faults. Satirical.
Title: In praise of virtue
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of virtue and the happiness it brings nankind, anticipating heaven
Title: A hymn to virtue
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of virtue, and its good and happy influence on mankind
Title: A hymn
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the necessity for praising God who has so splendidly
created all the natural world and mankind
Title: A pious wish
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, praying for a calm death and safe passage to the happiness of
heaven
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Love song describing a state of mutual rapturous happiness destroyed by the
jealousy of the gods