Janus: Verses

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2717.9	Verses, some with a Cambridge connection
MS Add.2718.1	Commendation for Thomas Harding's 'Church History'
MS Add.2718.10	John Rennie: Specification for 'a Road Bridge proposed to be erected over Marshland Drain'
MS Add.2718.11	John Rennie: Specification for 'a Drain for the Conveyance of Water from Tilney Goole to West Lynn'
MS Add.2718.12	Eau Brink, Cambridgeshire: statement of sums due Messrs Jolliffe & Banks
MS Add.2718.13	Verses
MS Add.2718.2	Burwell manor, Cambridgeshire: survey.
MS Add.2718.3	University of Cambridge: fragment of what appears to be a history of the University.
MS Add.2718.4	Richard Hollick of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, v. Ebenezer Hollick: notes on a legal dispute, with the opinion of S. Thompson
MS Add.2718.5	Honor of Richmond: demise to Richard Parker of offices of feodary, bailiff and coroner, and liberty of the honor in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, and Essex
MS Add.2718.6	Two letters from unidentified parties, one addressed to John Rennie
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Verses

Title	Verses
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.13
Covering Dates	1650–1750 (Circa.)
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

12 items in various hands.

Includes: 'The Egyptian King and his Apes'; 'An Hymn', beg.: 'My God my only help and hope ...', and ends: '... Who reigns one God above.'; 'On Mans Life'; (attrib. H. King), 'Verses of MansMortality', beg.: 'Like as the damask rose you see ...', and ends: 'The snow dissolves and so must all.'; 'From a minister of the Churchof England to Lavinia a Quaker recommending Baptism to her'; 'The Pleasure of Chiding'; 'A Prophesy found in the Chambers of one Mr Barker who ... died in Lancaster Gaol in the Reign of Charles the Second', beg.: 'Too late into this room I come ...', and ends '... expect this Prince to his native shore'; 4 riddles or rebuses; 'A Shuttlecock'; 'Solitary Thoughts on the Uncertanty of human thingsoccasioned by the sudden Loss of a hopeful Youth' (endorsed: 'Kent Sept. 4th [16]70').

Presented by the Bedfordshire county archivist, 26 Jan. 1948.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Verses, MS Add.2718.13

Index Terms

Poetry

Poems

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