Vers de Société, etc., continued, Ti - Y; with a few pieces in French; followed by...

Vers de Société, etc., continued, Ti - Y; with a few pieces in French; followed by Epitaphs (f.138) and Riddles (f.187) in prose and verse.

Among them are:- "To all you sparkling Whiggs at court" (f.5); "The New Court, ... by the Earl of Dorset", beg. "To all you Tories far from Court" (f.7); "Prologue [and Epilogue] to Julius Caesar, acted by the Westminster Scholars at the French Theatre", Feb., 1728 (f.11); "A Party to Richmond", beg. "To Richmond the folks of the very first mode" (f.13); To Dean Swift, "with a present of a paper - book, finely bound on his birthday, Nov., 30, 1732", beg. "To thee, dear Swift" (f.21); "Bounce and Fopp", beg. "To thee, sweet Fop" (f.23); "An edict of Prato in Italy, taken out of Boccace," beg. "Too weak are laws" (f.27); "A Noon Serenade", by D. Garrick, beg. "What makes thy looks so fair and bright" (f.48); "The discontented Virgin", beg. "What though I am a courtly lass" (f.51); "A Bermudan Ode", beg. "When in a state devoid of sense", dat. Downhall, 10 Apr, 1727 (f.56); "On Mrs Crewe by Mr. Charles Fox", beg. "Where the loveliest expression to features is join'd (f.66); "To the Hon. Mrs North by Lord Lyttelton, 1775", beg. "While round her lips" (f.69); "Charity, a poem by Lord granby", beg. "Whilst all around me" (f.71); "The Poet and the Friend. A Dialogue", beg. "Why wears my pensive Friend" (f.86); "By Lady Mary Wortley", beg. "Why will Delila thus retire" (f.92); "Vers de Mr Fred. Hervey, et reponse de Mr. de Voltaire", 1764, beg. "Dix mois Apollon" and "Le soleil des Anglois" (f.123); "La Tactique, par Voltaire", beg "J'etais Lundy passé" (f.126).

Among the Epitaphs are:- on "Moll Batchelor, pastry woman in Oxon", beg. "Beneath in the dust The musty old curst" (f.138); "Under this stone lies widow Blackacre," by Mrs Nevill, widow of Grey Nevil, on herself (ff.139, 140); on Benjamin and Cotto Blake, negroes, buried at Sheperton, 1781 (f.141b); on Lady Dorothy Boyle, 1742 (f.143); on Theophilus Cave (f.144) on Sir Christ. Calthorp, of East Basham, K.B. d.1718, and his family (f.145); on Miss Colleton, beg. "Of gent'lest nature, ever formed to please" (f.148); on James Craggs, Jun, by A. Pope, beg. "Statesman, yet friend to truth" (f.149); -- on Dr Dealtry, by W. Mason, beg. "Here o'er the tomb" (f.150); on the Hon Robert Digby and his sister Mary, at Sherborne, by Pope (f.152); on Miss Drummond, the Archbishop of York's daughter, beg. "Here sleeps what once was beauty" (f.153); on Gilbert Glanville, Bishop of Rochester (f.155); on Andrew Gray, by Lord Boyne, beg. "This little room" (f.156); on Mrs Greenwood: humorous lines, beg. "Oh Death, oh Death, thou hast cut down" (f.157); on Thomas Harley, of Kinsam, 1737-1738 (f.158); on Nich. Hooke, "forty first son of John Hooke, Esq", at Conway (f.159); on Humphrey Lloid, at White Church near Denbigh (f.160); on Mary, wife of Rev. Will. Mason, d. 1767, at Bristol (f.161); on A. Pope by Lord Tyrconnell, beg. "Monarch, avaunt" (f.164); on Sir Tho. Powys, knt, d.1719 (f.165b); on Lady Essex Roberts (f.167); on Nicholas Rowe, beg. "To Rowe's dear reliques" (ff.169, 171); on "John Snow, who left William Frost his estate" (ff.172, 173); on John Topham (f.175); on Sir John Vanbrugh, two versions (ff.176, 177); "D[uke of] Bucks [Geo. Villiers, 2nd Duke] motto in his will, but refus'd to be put up by the Bp. of Rochester" (ff.178, 179); Mary Waters, wife of Rob. Honywood, of Charing, co. Kent, d. 1620 (f.181)

The Riddles (ff.187-339) which are nearly all in verse, begin with three series copied into note-books; the rest are on detached leaves.

Folio; ff.339.