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Bound volume of 56 poems in different hands with a manuscript title page identifying Charles Boddam as a member of Trinity College Cambridge. Includes poems by [Arnaud?] Berquin, [Christopher?] Butson, [Charles?] Emily ["Verses given up in Trin: Coll Hall Cambridge on the Commemoration Day"], the Hon. Charles Feilding, Charles Fox, [David] Garrick, Dr [John?] Langhorne, Lord Lyttelton, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [Thomas?] Tickell, Thomas Warton, and Portia Young ["On a Woman of the town who was found dead in the fields"].

First line: ‘From glossaries, and doom’s-day book’.

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Epigram | on two late writers in defence of | Rowley’s Poetry

From glossaries, and doom’s-day book,
Devoid of taste or spirit;
In vain ye vent your critick rage,
—On Warton, or on Tyrrit;!
As well might ye pretend to prove,
That Homer copied Cowley,
As, that young Chatterton possessed
One pinch—of Genuine Rowley!