Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14

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ff. 11v–12r.

Local title: To Ruin.

Attributed author: Burns.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

f. 25.

Local title: Epitaph.

Attributed author: Thomson.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 36v–47

Local title: For a Watch.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 52–54.

Local title: Precepts of Conjugal Happiness.

Attributed author: Dr. Langhorne.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 30–31

Local title: Fancy. An Elegy.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 43v–59

Local title: Epitaph/ Written in the year 1745.

Attributed author: Mr. Collins.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Incorrect dating. Poem in his collection said to have been written in 1746. 

f. 18. 

Local title: To Night A Sonnett.

Attributed author: Charlotte Smith.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

f. 23.

Local title: Written at Midnight in a Thunder-Storm.

Attributed author: Miss Carter.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 42–43v

Local title: Hymn, To Humanity.

Attributed author: Dr. Langhorne.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

f. 50. 

Local title: The SHAKESPEARE GALLERY.

Attributed author: Scriblerus.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Margin roman numerals suggesting code indicating quotations from and references to Shakespeare plays. Annotation to the title: Opened by W. Alderman Boydell, in Pall Mall. May. 1789.

f. 7.

Local title: To the same Friend.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed date: Decbr. 2d. 1798. Includes annotations. 

ff. 17v–18.

Local title: An old Song.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed region/ date: WARMINSTER/ ye 3d. Aug. 1788.

ff. 71v–73v.

Local Title: To Eliza Written at Midnight.

Attributed author: Scriblerus.

Adaptation: Yes. List of adaptations (with adaptation following original): 

line 3: undisturb’d > now; asserts > resumes; sway > ready ray

line 5: all-conscious presence > my heart’s best tut’ress

lines 11–12 missing.

line 13: wretched choice > hasty fault

line 18: those awful precepts > the Virtue

line 21: gracious > better

line 22: fond > rash; tempting > fatal

line 25: urg’d > rack’d

line 26: his > those

line 30: gentle > sacred

lines 32–36 missing.

line 37: All pow’rful Grace > O! yet once more

line 39: Folly > evil

line 41: high > just; devotion > my bosom

line 43: Or > No

line 45: motion > passion

line 46: secure its safety by a > May heaven in kindness seal my

line 47: be the soft retreat > make the sweet wheat

line 48: Calm > There

line 50–53 [final lines] missing.

Other variants: In place of final 3 lines, 10 seemingly original lines:

"Then oft perhaps upon my early bier

Eliza’s eye may drop a pitying tear,

Forgot the follies of a friendless faithful heart,

Whose varying throbs no language can impart.

When the kind grave shall all my follies hide,

My fruitless love, my passion & my pride;

Then sometimes surely shall a gentle woe,

O'er shade her mind; the chrystal drops shall flow

In kind Regret for him, whose heart was known

With it's last pulse, to beat for her alone."

Other: Attributed date: July. 1. 1790.

ff. 28v-29–32

Local title: On the Death of a Lady at Bristol Hotwells where she went for the Recovery of her health. By her Husband.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

ff. 47–48.

Local title: A Character.

Attributed author: Dr. Langhorne.

Adaptation: Dedicated "To E.C. whom it fits to a T." Line 10 is the only line altered, and appears as "Yet hear Eliza, while you blush to hear," rather than "Yet, Gillman, bear it;—while you blush to hear." 

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Regular; in some cases where author is not known to compiler, indication of source.

Calf. Possibly a tree pattern.

Yes.

First page is a frontispiece with a finely drawn device with name.

Single, except the final item (85), dated 1817, is in a different hand.

Several poems by "Scriblerus," who seems to be Eliza Chapman's suitor.

Often a simple horizontal line between items, but can also have flourish, or upside-down triangle.

Numbered by item. 

Yes, original poetry by Scriblerus, Eliza, T.E.T. – but note that some of the “original” poetry is adapted – e.g. Burns, Langhorne; unacknowledged copying of Elizabeth Carter poem as “To Eliza Written at Midnight” (item #94).

Finely drawn device with "EChapman" on front leaf, before title page.

Yes: "Poetry, Selected & Original. 1788 & 1789."