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21 Sep 2009: 1. Peter Hoare. Belton House, Lincolnshire, MS S.115.20. Notes on the Manuscript This commonplace book and another at A13.4.18 appear to be in the hand of ‘Old’ ... Sir John Brownlowe or Brownlow (20 January 1593/4 – 27 June 1679), 1st baronet of

2 Sep 2009: For the scribe of MS S.115.20, the volume provides a way to manage the inevitable copiousness of the material he has read. ... 18-28 (p. 20). 8 Cf. Judges 14. Samson famously challenged the Philistines with a riddle about his encounter with the lion and

29 Sep 2009: range of subjects from practical gardening (item 18) to penitential lyrics (item 20).

18 Sep 2009: items 10 and 20 (Ben Jonson’s ‘Ode Pindarique’ and Browne’s ‘Underneath this sable hearse’), for instance.

23 Sep 2009: 1. Exodus 20 A. Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage, nether any symilitude that is in heauen aboue, ether in the erth benethe or in the waters under the erth. ... quotation from Exodus 20, perhaps on the grounds that that the French verb adorer combined

23 Sep 2009: The remainder is more or less self-standing, with many sententious praises, and some grand classical references (20: ‘When past all off’rings to Pheretrian Jove, / He Mars depos’d’), though