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A novel entitled Zéphire, ou le Berceau de Flore (1797) is attributed to Sanchamau in the ‘Dictionnaire des anonymes’ (see Barbier’s Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymyes et pseudonymes, 2nd ed. (1824), iii. 455).

(On the back is printed ‘Paris le [blank] 1820.’)

Subscribed ‘Notedia Doanti’.

First line: ‘Dear Friend, I fain wou’d try once more’.

First line: ‘It hap’n’d in the twilight of the day’.

First line: ‘Uds Life we’re undon’. The British Library copy (Add. MS 34362, ff. 55r–56r) is headed ‘A dialogue between King and Duke 1678’.

Heading continues: ‘To the Tune of Youth, Youth, etc.’ First line: ‘The Youth was belov’d in the Spring of his life’. ‘Lory’ was the nickname of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester. For the date see Macaulay’s History of England, vol. i, p. 371 n.

First line: ‘If Affra’s worth were needful to be Shown’. The subject of the poem is Aphra Behn.

The year has been altered from ‘1577’.

First line: ‘We read in Prophane, and Sacred Records’.

First line: ‘Curs’d be the timerous Fool, whose feeble mind’.

First line: ‘Unto my aid I wou’d som Painter Call’. The verses appear to have been occasioned by William Garway’s appointment as Commissioner of Customs in 1671.

Heading continues: ‘ To the Tune of Sir Roger Martin.’ First line: ‘There’s Sunder-land the Tory’.

First line: ‘Since Satyr is the only thing that’s writ’.

Heading continues: ‘To the Tune of I tell thee Dick. Etc.’ First line: ‘I’l tell thee Dick where I have been’.

The day of the month has been altered from ‘9’.

Heading continues: ‘Or, a Merry new Ballad, to a Sad old Tune, Call’d Packington’s Pound.’ First line: ‘You Whigs, and you Toryes, you Trimmers, and all’.

First line: ‘Duke Lauderdale that lump of grease’. The verses appear to date from the period when the Earl of Danby was Lord Treasurer (1673–8).

Heading continues: ‘To the Tune of John Sanderson. Enter Jeffery Ailworth, fol-low’d by the K. and D. hand in hand.’ First line: ‘This trick of Trimming is a fine thing’. This piece has been annotated in pencil in a 19th-century hand.

First line: ‘Algernon Sydney fills this Tomb’.

First line: ‘In th’ Isle of Brittain, long since famous known’. Attributed to the Earl of Rochester in the table of contents.

Heading continues: ‘To an Excellent new Tune, call’d A Health to Betty.’ First line: ‘Leave off your Ogling Francis’.

Headed: ‘Virgil Lib.4. 615. 620. English’d by Mr Cowles [sic] at Oxford when the King was there, in the Time of the Wars.’ First line: ‘By a bold People’s Stubborn arms opprest’.

First line: ‘Ten Pounds to a Crown, who will make the match?’

First line: ‘The Londoners, Gent: to the King do present’.

22 lines. First line: ‘When the Seale is given to a talking Fool’.

Prose. Heading continues: ‘humbly offer’d to the Consideration of the Members of both Houses on their next Meeting 28. of Aprill 87.’ Attributed to Dr Burnet in the table of contents.

First line: ‘Send forth, dear Julian, all thy Books’.

First line: ‘As City’s that to their fierce Conquerors yeild’.