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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
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: 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: Eternity
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the terrible prospect of eternal hell as certain punishment for sin if not
repented of before death; religious.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious epigram advising contemplation of death, Christ, temptation, heaven and hell; translating preceding Latin
Title: Life to come
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Arguing that if heaven and hell do not exist we may as well enjoy whatever
pleasure offers itself
Title: A night-piece on a sick bed. [Epigraph from James Thomson's "Winter", from
"The Seasons".]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, reflections on the painful tedium of a night of sickness
leading to realisation of the much greater and eternal terrors of hell
Title: Christian courage at the hour of death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, confidently anticipating death and heaven because
strengthened by Christian faith, unlike the sinner condemned to hell
Title: The resurrection. An ode.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, imagining in detail the coming of
Christ, the destruction of the world, and the resurrection of the dead,
condemned to hell or heaven