The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]

DMI number:

120

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 1.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1716

Volume Number:

1 of 6

ESTC number:

N6906

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB131341019

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 17

Full Title:

The FIRST PART of | Miscellany Poems. | Containing Variety of New | TRANSLATIONS | OF THE | [i]ANCIENT POETS:[/i] | Together with Several | ORIGINAL POEMS. | [rule] | [i]By the Most Eminent Hands.[/i] | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]DRYDEN.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for JACOB TONSON at [i]Shakespear's | Head[/i] over-against [i]Katharine-Street[/i] in | the [i]Strand[/i]. M DCC XVI.

Epigraph:

[i]Et vos,[/i] O Lauri, [i]carpam, & Te, Proxima[/i] Myrte: [i]Sic positae quoniam suaveis miscetis odores.[/i] Virg. Ecl. 2.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[10], [i]-xxxvi, [8], [1]-360

Bibliographic details:

Plate facing title-page. Absalom and Achitophel p.[9], The Medal p.[269] and Virgil's Eclogues p.[313] all have separate title-pages.

Comments:

Various additions; many apparently from 17thc pamphlets, e.g. Poems to the memory of that incomparable poet Edmond Waller esquire by several hands (1688) (P2724).

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication to the Duke of Newcastle (*Ar-*A4r); Preface by Mr. Dryden (i-xxxvi); Contents (a9r-a12r).

References:

Richard C. Boys, 'Some Problems of Dryden's Miscellany' English Literary History 7.2 (1940) 130-143 Earl R. Wasserman, 'Pre-restoration poetry in Dryden's Miscellany' Modern Language Notes 52.8 (1937) 545-555 ESTC no. N65196 also refers to this edition, describing it as 'Miscellany poems'; this refers to Oxford EFL XJ63.1[misc] but this copy appears identical to N6906.

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Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

Thomas Pelham Holles

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle.'

Editor:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Publish'd by Mr. Dryden.'

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand.

Content/Publication

First Line:

All human things are subject to decay

Page No:

pp.1-7

Poem Title:

Mac Flecknoe.

Attribution:

By Mr Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Take it as earnest of a faith renewed

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

To the unknown Author of this excellent Poem.

Attribution:

Nat. Lee

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

I thought forgive my sin the boasted fire

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

To the unknown Author of this admirable Poem.

Attribution:

R. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Hail heaven born muse Hail every sacred page

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

To the Conceal'd Author of this incomparable Poem.

Attribution:

N. Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

In pious times ere priestcraft did begin

Page No:

pp.19-46

Poem Title:

Absalom and Achitophel.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis not for nothing when just heaven does frown

Page No:

pp.47-49

Poem Title:

Part of Virgil's Fourth Georgick.

Attribution:

English'd by the Earl of Mulgrave

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give

Page No:

pp.49-53

Poem Title:

The Parting of Sireno and Diana.

Attribution:

English'd by Sir Car. Scrope

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

Now Tarquin the last king did govern Rome

Page No:

pp.53-58

Poem Title:

The Story of Lucretia. Out of Ovid de Fastis. Book II.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go

Page No:

pp.58-60

Poem Title:

On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Those gods the pious ancients did adore

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

To Mr. Dryden, on his Religio Laici.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

The XXII. Ode of the First Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Those ills your ancestors have done

Page No:

pp.62-64

Poem Title:

The VI. Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Conquered with soft and pleasing charms

Page No:

pp.64-66

Poem Title:

The IV. Ode of the First Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blush not my friend to own the love

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

The IV. Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

If ever any injured power

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

The VIII. Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Whilst I was welcome to your heart

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Horace and Lydia. The IX. Ode.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

While I remained the darling of your heart

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between Horace and Lydia.

Attribution:

English'd by another Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As on the beach sad Ariadne lay

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

The III. Elegy of the First Book of Propertius.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Adams

Attributed To:

Mr. Adams

First Line:

Tis but a short but a filthy pleasure

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Out of Petronius Arbiter.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My much loved friend | When thou art from my eyes

Page No:

pp.73-76

Poem Title:

Epistle From Mr. Otway, to Mr. Duke.

Attribution:

From Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

A youth once free and happy now a slave

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

A Letter to a Friend.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I praised and loved by the best youth of Rome

Page No:

pp.78-82

Poem Title:

An Elegy, By the Wife of St. Alexias (A Nobleman of Rome) complaining on his absence, he having left her on his Wedding Night unenjoy'd out of a Pious Zeal to go visit the Christian Churches. Written in Latin by Fran. Remond, a Jesuit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Amaryllis love compels my way

Page No:

pp.82-85

Poem Title:

Amaryllis, Or the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, Paraphras'd.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The philters Thestylis and charms prepare

Page No:

pp.86-92

Poem Title:

Pharmaceutria, or, the Inchantress.

Attribution:

Translated from Theocritus, by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

O Short no herb no salve was ever found

Page No:

pp.92-96

Poem Title:

The Cyclops. Theocritus Idyll. XI. ... Inscrib'd to Dr. Short.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke of Cambridge

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Fly swift ye hours ye sluggish minutes fly

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Thou equal partner of the royal bed

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Spoken to the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why

Page No:

pp.99-102

Poem Title:

Floriana. A Pastoral upon the Death of her Grace the Dutchess of Southampton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

On a bank beside a willow

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

But neither Median groves whose happy soil

Page No:

pp.103-105

Poem Title:

The Praises of Italy out of Virgil's second Georgic.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Verses immortal as my bays I sing

Page No:

pp.105-107

Poem Title:

The IX. Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Then this unwieldy factious town

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Hor. Ode 15. Lib. 2. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

In storms when clouds the moon do hide

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

The XVI. Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Then you Mecenas with your train

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The First Epode of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

As Jupiter I made my court in vain

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Epilogue Intended to have been spoken by the Lady Henr. Mar. Wentworth, when Calisto was Acted at Court.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus to Glaucus spake | Divine Sarpedon since he did not find

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus, in the 12th Illiad of Homer.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Reader preserve thy peace those busy eyes

Page No:

p.114-115

Poem Title:

An Elegy Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Must noble Hastings immaturely die

Page No:

pp.116-119

Poem Title:

Upon the death of the Lord Hastings.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden, in the year 1649, when at Westminster School

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What art thou O thou new found pain

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

Upon Desire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If yet there be a few that take delight

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

A Prologue.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ladies the beardless author of this day

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

An Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

When too much plenty luxury and ease

Page No:

pp.124-126

Poem Title:

Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

All you who this day's jubilee attend

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Spoken to Her Royal Highness, On Her Return from Scotland, In the Year 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Come then at last while anxious nations weep

Page No:

pp.127-129

Poem Title:

To the Duke on his Return, In the Year 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Nat. Lee

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

Since faction ebbs and rogues grow out of fashion

Page No:

pp.129-131

Poem Title:

A Prologue to the King and Queen, Upon the Union of the two Companies, in the Year 1689.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

New ministers when first they get in place

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

An Epilogue On the same Occasion.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

An Epilogue To Constantine the Great.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How comes it gentlemen that nowadays

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

A Prologue. Spoken by Mr. Betterton.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

An Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As through the flood to our expecting shore

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Upon the Nuptials of the Prince of Denmark, and the Lady Anne.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Ah where protecting providence ah where

Page No:

pp.138-140

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of King Charles II.

Attribution:

By Mr. William Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Envy and faction rule the grumbling age

Page No:

pp.140-141

Poem Title:

A Prologue.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

As Ariana young and fair

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

A Song To a Lady, who discovered a new Star in Cassiopeia.

Attribution:

The Words and Tune by Mr. C. Dryden

Attributed To:

Charles Dryden

First Line:

Since from my dear Astraea's sight

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the E. of M.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Aenigma.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By Mr. Pryor

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

See there the taper's dim and doleful light

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

Verses on the Snuff of a Candle; made in Sickness.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

Hence loathed melancholy

Page No:

pp.145-149

Poem Title:

L' Allegro.

Attribution:

By Mr. Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Hence vain deluding joys

Page No:

pp.149-153

Poem Title:

Il Penseroso.

Attribution:

By Mr. Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

I'll tell thee Dick where I have been

Page No:

pp.154-157

Poem Title:

A Ballad upon a Wedding.

Attribution:

By Sir John Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

The wanton troopers riding by

Page No:

pp.157-160

Poem Title:

The Nymph complaining for the death of her Fawn.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Come little infant love me now

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Young Love.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Yet once more O ye laurels and once more

Page No:

pp.162-167

Poem Title:

Lycidas.

Attribution:

By Mr. Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

While with a strong and yet a gentle hand

Page No:

pp.167-173

Poem Title:

A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness and Joint Interest of his Highness and this Nation. In the Year 1654.

Attribution:

By Edmond Waller, Esq

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

And now 'tis time for their officious haste

Page No:

pp.174-179

Poem Title:

Heroick Stanza's on the late Lord Protector.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis true great name thou art secure

Page No:

pp.180-190

Poem Title:

To the happy Memory of the late Lord Protector. ... Pindarick Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Sprat of Oxon

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

We must resign heaven his great soul does claim

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

Upon the late Storm, and the Death of the late Lord Protector, ensuing the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Tis well he's gone O had he never been

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

The foregoing Copy answer'd.

Attribution:

By Mr. Godolphin

Attributed To:

Sir William Godolphin

First Line:

If loaded eyelids and a clouded brow

Page No:

pp.193-198

Poem Title:

A Pastoral upon the Death of her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The noon day star that once out faced the sun

Page No:

pp.198-200

Poem Title:

Funeral Tears to the Sacred Memory of our late Soveraign King Charles the Second.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While blooming youth and gay delight

Page No:

pp.200-202

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

At dead of night when rapt in sleep

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To a high hill where never yet stood tree

Page No:

pp.203-223

Poem Title:

The Poet's Complaint of his Muse. Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Waller is dead and lofty number's lost

Page No:

pp.223-225

Poem Title:

On Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. T. Rymer

Attributed To:

Thomas Rymer

First Line:

How cruel was Alonzo's fate

Page No:

pp.225-226

Poem Title:

On the Infanta of Portugal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone does lie

Page No:

pp.226-228

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on the Lord Fairfax.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

George Villiers

First Line:

Not sleep beneath the shade in flowery fields

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

To the Memory of my Noble Friend, Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Sir John Cotton

Attributed To:

Sir John Cotton

First Line:

Though I can add but little to his name

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

Upon my Noble Friend, Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Sir Thomas Higgons

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Higgons

First Line:

When great men fall great griefs arise

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Upon the Duke of Buckingham's Being in Disgrace at Court, in the Year 1674.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Daphnis must from Chloe part

Page No:

pp.231-234

Poem Title:

Daphnis and Chloe.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Vain gallants look on Waller and despair

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[Monsieur St. Euremont. 1684 ('Waller, qui ne sent rien des Maux de la vieillesse')] In English.

Attribution:

By T. R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The witty and the brave survive the tomb

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Upon the Inimitable Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. George Granville

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Theseus O Theseus hark but yet in vain

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as she sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos thus complains.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

The muses darling pride of all the plains

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

The Deserted Swain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now with a general peace the world was blessed

Page No:

pp.241-249

Poem Title:

Astrea Redux. A Poem on the happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second, 1660.

Attribution:

By John Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

In that wild deluge where the world was drowned

Page No:

pp.250-253

Poem Title:

To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on His Coronation, 1660.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

My lord | While flattering crowds officiously appear

Page No:

pp.253-258

Poem Title:

To my Lord Chancellor, presented on New-Years-Day, 1662.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ah had thy body lasted as thy name

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. Bevill Higgons

Attributed To:

Bevil Higgons

First Line:

How to thy sacred memory shall I bring

Page No:

pp.259-261

Poem Title:

On the Death of E. Waller, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mrs. A. Behn

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

O solitude my sweetest choice

Page No:

pp.261-267

Poem Title:

On Solitude.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not flesh and blood can Riley's pride confine

Page No:

p.267

Poem Title:

To Mr. Riley, Drawing Mr. Waller's Picture.

Attribution:

By Mr. T. Rymer

Attributed To:

Thomas Rymer

First Line:

The free born English generous and wise

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

A Character of the English. In Allusion to Tacit. de Vit. Agric.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolseley

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

Once more our awful poet arms to engage

Page No:

p.278

Poem Title:

Upon the Author of the following Poem.

Attribution:

N. Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Thus pious ignorance with dubious praise

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

To the Unknown Author of the following Poem, and that of Absalom and Achitophel.

Attribution:

J. Adams

Attributed To:

J. Adams

First Line:

Of all our antic sights and pageantry

Page No:

pp.281-289

Poem Title:

The Medall. A Satyr against Sedition.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

From thence his way the Trojan hero bent

Page No:

pp.290-293

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the Fifth and Ninth Books of Virgil's Aeneids. [First Part]

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The Trojan camp the common danger shared

Page No:

pp.293-304

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the Fifth and Ninth Books of Virgil's Aeneids. [Second Part]

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Twelve Spartan virgins noble young and fair

Page No:

pp.304-306

Poem Title:

Theocrit. Idyllium the 18th. The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

With inauspicious love a wretched swain

Page No:

pp.307-310

Poem Title:

Idyllium XXIII. The Despairing Lover.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

So may the auspicious queen of love

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 3. Lib. 1. Inscrib'd to the Earl of Roscomon, on his intended Voyage to Ireland.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Once more a father and a son fall out

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

On the Prince's going to England with an Army to restore the Government, 1688.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolseley

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse

Page No:

pp.315-319

Poem Title:

The First Eclogue.

Attribution:

By John Caryll, Esq

Attributed To:

John Caryll

First Line:

A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

Page No:

pp.319-321

Poem Title:

The Second Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Young Corydon hard fate an humble swain

Page No:

pp.322-324

Poem Title:

The Second Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Tell me Dametas tell whose sheep these are

Page No:

pp.325-329

Poem Title:

The Third Eclogue: Or, Palaemon.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Sicilian muse begin a loftier strain

Page No:

pp.330-332

Poem Title:

The Fourth Eclogue. Pollio.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Mopsus since chance does us together bring

Page No:

p.332-336

Poem Title:

The Fifth Eclogue. Daphnis.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

I first of Romans stooped to rural strains

Page No:

pp.337-340

Poem Title:

The Sixth Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

While Daphnis sat beneath a whispering shade

Page No:

pp.342-345

Poem Title:

The Seventh Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Adams

Attributed To:

Thomas Adams

First Line:

Sad Damon's and Alphesiboeus muse

Page No:

pp.345-348

Poem Title:

The Eighth Eclogue. Pharmaceutria.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

Mr. Stafford

First Line:

I Damon and Alpheus loves recite

Page No:

pp.348-351

Poem Title:

The Same Eclogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast

Page No:

pp.351-354

Poem Title:

The Ninth Eclogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Sicilian nymph assist my mournful strains

Page No:

pp.354-357

Poem Title:

The Tenth Eclogue. Gallus.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

One labour more O Arethusa yield

Page No:

pp.357-360

Poem Title:

The Last Eclogue. Translated, or rather Imitated in the Year 1666.

Attribution:

By Sir William Temple, Bar.

Attributed To:

Sir William Temple