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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.

(Greg has written ‘ass!’ by one line.)

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’.