Containing extracts (or "gatherings") from classical and other works compiled by Joseph Warton at Winchester College, 1738-9, and occasional verse written by him in 1740 (see his note on fol. 81). The original verse includes: (fol. 54) "American Song", published in Thomas Warton, Poems (1748), with an earlier draft (fol. 54v) entitled "Mexican Love-song" (fols. 57v-9v) "To Pity" …