Manuscript poems
- Date:
- c. 1730
- Reference:
- MS.3421
- Archives and manuscripts
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A collection of verses by various writers of the first half of the 18th cent., including items by Jonathan Swift and others of his contemporaries in Ireland. Copied by various hands.
Among the identified poems by Swift are:
P. 50. An answer.
Pp. 71-109. Cadenus and Vanessa.
Pp.109-110. An inventory.
Pp. 111-116. Horace. Lib I, Ep. 7 to the Earl of Oxford.
Pp.117-122. The journal [The country life].
Pp.123-126. On a storm.
P.126. On the clergy of Chester.
P.127. On Kemp, the innkeeper.
*102. Drapiers Hill.
*103-106. Molly Mog.
The following may be mentioned:
Pp. *163-66. Hort (Josiah) [1674?-1751]. Receipt for a running Thrush in a horse. In verse.
Pp.*71-73. Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley) [1689-1762]. The cure for love.
Pp.60, 61. Philips (Ambrose) [1675?-1749]. A supplication for the Hon. Miss Carteret in the small-pox (1725).
Pp. *111-112. Pope (Alexander) [1688-1744]. Upon the Hon. Lady Mary Worthy.
Pp. *130, 131. - A receipt for a Soop to Dean Swift.
Pp. *152, 153. - On Mr. Addison.
There are other poems by Francis Bindon [ -1765] (Pp. 31, *117), Patrick Delany [1685?-1768] (Pp. 49, 52, 128), James Sterling [fl. 1730] (Pp. 62, 64, 66, 67, *158), Sir William Yonge [Young] [ -1755] (Pp. *70, *172).
Some of the verses are dated 1725 or 1726.
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- 6487