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(Certified as a true copy by Pierre-Jean Lévêque.)

Latin text, with English translation.

The sketch is captioned ‘The Old Hundredth. | All people that on airth do dwell | Sing toe the Lord with chairfull voice.’

Two ballads on one sheet.

(It is unclear which edition this is from.)

Numbered 20.

‘Aeterna sequamur.’ Dated at Jena.

John Gill had a lease from Queen dated 4 Mar. 1563, by which he was granted, among other things, a tenement late in the occupation of John Bingley in Over Trelabe, Cornwall, part of the manor of Carmedon Prior, and another tenement late in the occupation of John Shere in Nethertrelabe, part of the manor of ‘Clemeslande’ (Climsland) Prior, Cornwall. The yearly rent of the two tenements is 56s. 2d. and the fine is equivalent to four years’ rent, i.e. £11 4s. 8d. Gill having surrendered his interest in these tenements, the Queen, being petitioned for them, has granted them by letters patent dated 18 Nov. 1564 to William Sheres, in reversion for 31 years [see the Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1563–1566, p. 342]. The correspondent is therefore directed to repay Gill or the bringer of the letter £11 4s. 8d., and take an acquittance in return.

(In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed by Winchester and Mildmay. Examined by Christopher Smyth, clerk of the pipe.)

First line: ‘No joy I in these peaceful Shades can find’.

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Transcript

The Complaint …

No joy I in these peaceful Shades can find,
Their Gloom adds Sorrow to my tortur’d Mind;
There† flow’ry Borders Seem no longer Sweet,
And the Gay Birds in vain their Songs repeat;
That Brook which o’er the Pebbles murmurs by,
I with my Tears continually Supply;
And when the Sparkling Stars I chance to see,
Ask, if there is not one a Friend to me?
But cruel as they are, they all conspire
To curse my Being with a hopeless Fire,
And doom me thus in Absence to deplore
The Loss of every Joy I knew before:
For thus Secluded from the Sight of Thee,
The Universe is all a Blank to me;
Yet I with Patience will my Lot endure,
Till Death to all my Grief Shall bring a Cure;
For in a Region far above the Skies
A Realm of Joy and endless Pleasure lies,
Those happy Climes my drooping Soul will chear,
And yield that Peace which is deny’d me hear†.

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† Sic.

A threatening letter addressed to a republican, who is described as a partisan of Robespierre.

(The message concludes, ‘Nous sommes Les amis de lordre social et de la Royauté’. Certified as a true copy by Lévêque.)

Two ballads on same sheet.

Dated at Terrace, Richmond. Numbered 19.

(In the top left-hand corner is ‘Vol. III. page 509.’ It is unclear which edition this is from.)

The sketch is captioned, in ink over pencil, ‘Desine Virgineos mecum mea tibia sumos’ (cf. Virgil, Eclogues, viii. 21).

‘Suaviter equitat, quem Gratia Dei portat.’ (Thomas à Kempis.) Dated at Frankfurt am Main.