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First line: ‘As t’other Night in Bed I thinking lay’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1672.’

Headed ‘A Letter from Mr Dryden, to Sir George Etheridge.’ First line: ‘To you, who live in Chill Degree’.

Headed ‘Sir George Etheridge, to the Earl of Middleton. 2d Letter.’ First line: ‘From hunting Whores, and haunting Play’.

First lines: ‘Painter, once more thy Pincil reassume | And draw me in one Scene London and Rome’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1670.’

(First line: ‘How Dull, and how Insensible a Beast’. Attributed to ‘Dreyden’ in the table of contents.)

First line: ‘As when proud Lucifer aym’d at a Throne’.

Headed ‘Sir George Etheridge. to the Earl of Middleton.’ First line: ‘Since Love and Verse as well as Wine’.

First line: ‘Draw England ruin’d, by what was giv’n before’. Last line: ‘Which most, the Dutch, or Parliament they fear.’ Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1667.’

First line: ‘Pride, Lust, Ambition, and the Peoples hate’.

First line: ‘A long Preludium, where the Matter’s full’.

102 lines. First line: ‘In Milford Lane near to St Clements Steeple’. Subscribed ‘Ld Buckhorst [sic].’ The incomplete word in the title is ‘Crablice’.

First line: ‘Since you have forgot’.

Prose. The text begins ‘We your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects’. The copy at Nottingham University (Portland MS PwV 42, p. 53) is dated 1679.

Heading continues: ‘To the Tune of the Irish Jig’. First line: ‘’Twere Folly, if ever’.

Headed continues ‘Translated out of the 9th Book of Lucan. Beginning at, quid quæri Labiene Jubes etc.?’ First line: ‘What shou’d I ask my Friend? which best wou’d be.’

First line: ‘Since Scandals fly thick’.

Heading continues: ‘Being a Paraphrastical Translation of Ovid’s Tenth Elegy. Lib: 3: Amorum.’ First line: ‘I have too long endur’d her Guilty Scorn’.

Heading continues: ‘To the Old Tune, Taking of Snuff is the Mode of the Court etc.’ First line: ‘The Widows and Maids’.

First line: ‘The Grave House of Commons by hoock or by Crook’.

Heading continues ‘ To the Tune, I am a Senceless Thing.’ First line: ‘Come hither Topham come, with hey, with a hey’.

At the end is written: ‘Questo breve compendio e Stato cavato da mè Giuseppe Gatti dall Vita Latina Manoscritta dal Padre della Mirandola esistente nella Libreria di Sant Maria Novella. Questo Presente Anno 1675.’

First line: ‘Husband! thou dull unpitty’d Miscreant!’ Subscribed: ‘1675’.

First line: ‘From the Lawless Dominion of Mitre and Crown’.

Headed: ‘Enter Oliver’s Porter, Fidler, and Poet, in Bedlam. The Scene adorn’d with Several of the Poet’s own Flowers’. First line: ‘Oh Glory! Glory! who are these appear?’

First line: ‘Thou mighty Princess, lovely Queen of Holes’.

Headed: ‘A Copy of Verses Made by My Lord Mou’grave upon his Injoying Mrs Kirke.’ First line: ‘Since now my Silvia is as kind as fair’.