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’.
First line: ‘As in the days of yore was ods’.
First line: ‘Since to restrain our Joys, that ill, but rude’.
In prose. First words: ‘Quanto piu la donna sarà giovane’.
Headed: ‘A Copy of Verses Said to be written by Milton.’ First line: ‘From the blest Region of Eternal day’. Entitled ‘Verses by Milton’ in the table of contents.