The flowers of Parnassus: or, the Lady's Miscellany for the year M. DCC. XXXV [T124918]

DMI number:

557

Publication Date:

1736

ESTC number:

T124918

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113014106

Shelfmark:

BL 11632.aa.36

Full Title:

THE | [red]FLOWERS[/red] | OF | [i]PARNASSUS[/i]: | OR, THE | [red]Lady's Miscellany,[/red] | For the YEAR M. DCC. XXXV. | CONTAINING | Great Variety of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse; | and many Curious Particulars publish'd since the Year | One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Four. | [double rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [red][i]LONDON:[/i][/red] | Printed and Sold by [i]J.[/i] and [i]T. Dormer[/i] in [i]Black and | White Court[/i] in the [i]Old Bailey[/i]. 1736. | (Price 2 [i]s[/i]. Stitch'd)

Epigraph:

[i]The Colours here so artfully are laid, | They fear no Lustre, and they want no Shade.[/i] | Stepn. to L. Halif. | [i]These blissful Plains no Blights nor Mildews fear, | The Flow'rs ne'er fade, and Shrubs are Myrtles here.[/i] | Garth.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

2 s stitched

Pagination:

[10], 5-180

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece engraved by 'I Smith'. This is unlikely to be the engraver John Smith (1652–1743) (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25846), who produced high end work and stopped making new plates in 1724 (though some continued to be used, against his wishes).

Comments:

CONTENTS: Prose: Account of 'The Rarities of Richmond'pp. 77-82; 'The Life and Prophecies of Merlin pp. 86-96 (includes some verse). Mostly contemporary poetry.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Address 'To the Ladies of Great Britain' signed 'T. G.' (2pp.); Contents (5pp.)

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First Line:

As shipwrecked men upon the angry seas

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

To Miranda.

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Young Damon once the happiest swain

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

The Advice.

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The poets sing of old that amorous Jove

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Husband.

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By a Lady

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Why envious time will you now fly so fast

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p.7

Poem Title:

Complaint against Time.

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Love is by fancy led about

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p.8

Poem Title:

Fancy.

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Waft me ye soft and gentle breezes where

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pp.8-9

Poem Title:

The Request.

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Selinda sure's the brightest thing

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pp.9-10

Poem Title:

[no title]

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O cruel youth as cruel as you're fair

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pp.10-12

Poem Title:

Dorinda to Mirtillo.

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Here stand I for whores as great

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p.12

Poem Title:

Verses pinn'd to a Sheet in which a Lady stood to do Penance in the Church.

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All things submit to love with careful eyes

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pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Reflections on these Words: All Things submit to Love.

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The world the learned world conspire to praise

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p.14

Poem Title:

Shape and Mein. To Mira.

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O come Ulysses quickly come ashore

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p.15

Poem Title:

The Syren's Invitation to Ulysses. From Hom. Odyss. Lib. 12. Fragment.

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O last and best of Scots who didst maintain

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p.16

Poem Title:

On Dundee.

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Stay bachelor if you have wit

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p.16

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Man and his Wife.

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While you my dear with philosophic eyes

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pp.17-29

Poem Title:

The Female Rake: Or, Modern Fine Lady. An Epistle from Libertina to Sylvia. In which is contain'd, The A-la-mode System.

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How ill the motion with the music suits

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p.29.3

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Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.

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Whilst you are deaf to love you may

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p.29.2

Poem Title:

In a Lady's Prayer-Book.

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Women are books and men the readers be

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p.29

Poem Title:

On Women.

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Boast not a golden rain O Jove behold

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p.30

Poem Title:

Love-Tears.

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I went to see my dear but she

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

The Visit.

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Most maids resemble Eve now in their lives

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p.30

Poem Title:

On Maids.

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Old Orpheus played so well he moved old Nick

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p.30

Poem Title:

To a bad Fidler.

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Susanna's fate with pity we behold

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p.30

Poem Title:

On the Picture of Susanna.

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Among the fair that Hide Park Circus grace

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p.31

Poem Title:

[No title]

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If beauteous Kitty boasts a charm

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p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

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I gave Calenus once a civil dun

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p.32

Poem Title:

Aulus and Calenus: Imitated from Buchanan.

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Venus called Cupid the other day

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p.32

Poem Title:

Venus jealous.

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A Welshman coming late into an inn

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p.33

Poem Title:

On a Welshman.

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Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

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pp.33-34

Poem Title:

From the Greek.

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To love to live just the same meaning bear

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p.33

Poem Title:

For Love.

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To love to perish the same meaning have

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p.33

Poem Title:

Against Love.

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Censure and penances excommunication

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p.34

Poem Title:

To a Roman Catholick, upon Marriage.

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In vain dear Jack dost thou employ thy youth

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pp.34-46

Poem Title:

The Rake of Taste.

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That all from Adam first begun

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p.46

Poem Title:

The Old Gentry.

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What gives the maiden blush its loveliest dye

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pp.47-55

Poem Title:

Beauty: Or, The Art of Charming.

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When great Augustus by decrees of fate

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pp.56-60

Poem Title:

The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete, from the XIVth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis. To Caelia

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First Line:

Tell me Lucinda prithee tell me how

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pp.60-61

Poem Title:

To Lucinda.

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Madam | Should I be silent should I still conceal

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Mrs. ******.

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Lightfingered Catch to keep his hands in ure

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p.62

Poem Title:

Upon one stealing a Pound of Candles.

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I know not whether in Narcissus' glass

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p.63

Poem Title:

Imitated from Buchanan.

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Miss for the court service is quickly prepared

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p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

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She first departed he for one day tried

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p.63

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman who died the Day after his Lady.

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Sometimes to sense sometimes to nonsense leaning

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p.63

Poem Title:

A Character.

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When Myra in her sex's garb we see

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p.63

Poem Title:

Myra in her Riding-Habit.

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Phillis my thoughts you often pray

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p.64

Poem Title:

Imitated from Buchanan.

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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead

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p.64

Poem Title:

A Cure for Poetry.

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When Venus in the sweet Idalian shade

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Basia: Or, The Pleasures of Kissing. Kiss I.

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As the young enamoured vine

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pp.65-67

Poem Title:

Kiss II.

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Not kisses thy fond lips diffuse

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pp.67-68

Poem Title:

Kiss IV.

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One tender kiss I cried sweet blooming maid

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p.67

Poem Title:

Kiss III.

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When thou profuse of heavenly charms

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pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Kiss V.

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Two thousand kisses in exchange of hearts

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pp.69-70

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Kiss VI.

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Kisses in rapture uncontrolled

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pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Kiss VII.

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By what folly ill-betrayed

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pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Kiss VIII.

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Be not still kissing me still smiling

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Kiss IX.

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No certain kiss one certain way repeat

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pp.74-75

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Kiss X.

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Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste

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pp.75-76

Poem Title:

On Kissing.

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A bachelor would have a wife that's wise

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p.76

Poem Title:

In Uxorem optatam.

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A jealous merchant that a sailor met

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pp.76-77

Poem Title:

Tunc tua res agitur.

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Kind Katherine kissed her husband with these words

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p.76

Poem Title:

Femina ludificantur viros.

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Did Plato live that sage whose piercing mind

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p.77

Poem Title:

On Virtue: To a Lady.

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The emblem of the nation so grave and precise

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p.77

Poem Title:

On the Tax upon Salt.

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Now blush Calypso tis but just to yield

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pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Verses on the Hermitage.

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By Stephen Duck

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Stephen Duck

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O queen more learned than ever Britannia saw

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pp.84-85

Poem Title:

On the Bustoes placed by her Majesty in the Hermitage.

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Written by a Lady

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Woe's me for the red dragon for alach

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pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Merlin's first Prophecy.

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Fly from these several fatal fires o king

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pp.89-90

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[no title]

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The Cornish boar shall fill with his devotion

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p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

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The heavens instead of water blood shall shower

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pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Merlin's Fourth Prophecy.

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A swain untaught in arts of love

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pp.97-98

Poem Title:

On two young Ladies respected by Damon at one Time.

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What just surprize bright youth thy pen excites

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p.97

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope, on his Essay on Criticism.

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Is Bell run backward then tis wondrous strange

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pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Upon Mrs. Bell's forfeiting her Faith to her first Love, and marrying another.

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Three buxom females crowned my nuptial bed

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p.98

Poem Title:

On The Buxom Females.

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In Babylon whose lofty walls were built

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pp.99-104

Poem Title:

The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe, from the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis.

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The bright dispenser of the glorious day

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p.99

Poem Title:

On a young Lady's being overtaken in a Storm.

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The lady who this resolution took

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p.104

Poem Title:

A Lady wrote upon a Window some Verses, intimating her design of never marrying; a Gentleman wrote these lines underneath.

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A gentleman

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I'm a shepherd and married sure none can agree

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

A Shepherd's Answer to a Gentleman's asking him what he was.

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Daphnis his kine down in a vale did keep

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pp.106-111

Poem Title:

The Eighth Idyll of Theocritus.

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Aid me O Venus beauty's powerful queen

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pp.111-133

Poem Title:

The Happy Bride.

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Indulgent nature to each kind bestows

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pp.133-134

Poem Title:

On the Burser of St. John's-College, Oxon, cutting down a fine Row of Trees.

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In church the prayer book and the fan displayed

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p.134

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Oh shield me from his rage celestial powers

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p.134

Poem Title:

Jealousy.

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By a Lady.

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The town reports the falsehood of my dear

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p.134

Poem Title:

[No title]

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I little thought the time would ever be

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p.135

Poem Title:

To a Lady who made Posies for Rings.

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Oh what bosom but must yield

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p.135

Poem Title:

To a Sempstress.

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When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat

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p.135

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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A nymph and a swain to Apollo once prayed

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p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

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In that small island which extends before

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pp.136-145

Poem Title:

Martucio and Constancia. A Novel from Boccace.

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The more I strive to learn the less I know

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p.145

Poem Title:

A Dunce's Speech at School.

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A knight long absent from the town

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pp.146-160

Poem Title:

The Metamorphoses of the Town.

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Our scenes no soft Italian air dispense

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pp.160-161

Poem Title:

Prologue to King Arthur...Spoken by Mr. Giffard.

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By Mr. Sterling

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Mr. Sterling

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Which of us think you ladies was most blind

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pp.161-163

Poem Title:

Epilogue to King Arthur...Spoken by Mrs. Giffard.

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By Mr. Sterling

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Mr. Sterling

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Fair rose to thee all other flowers must yield

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p.163

Poem Title:

The Rose. For the 10th of June.

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Oh cried Arsenia long in wedlock blessed

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p.163

Poem Title:

Woman's Resolution.

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Hence vulgar beauties take their powerful arms

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p.164

Poem Title:

On Marinda's Toilet.

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Some scribbling fops so little value fame

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p.164

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Satyr against Wit.

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By hidden springs man's smallest actions move

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p.165

Poem Title:

Optimum quod evenit.

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The bravest hero and the brightest dame

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p.165

Poem Title:

On the Lady Essex, who was a Dutch Woman.

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The poet Boileau's picture here you see

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p.165

Poem Title:

Verse by Boileau, on a Picture of his ill-grav'd.

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When Salva sings or plays the heroine's part

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p.165

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Anastasia Robinson.

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Who first transcribed the famous Trojan war

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p.165

Poem Title:

On Homer.

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Cried Strephon panting in Cosmelia's arms

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p.166

Poem Title:

The Rapture.

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Here flat on her back but unactive at last

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p.166

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Sally Salisbury.

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The power of love what mortal can withstand

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pp.166-168

Poem Title:

To Mrs. A-- F--.

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Fair marble tell to future days

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p.168

Poem Title:

On two Twin-Sisters, who died at the same Time and were buried in one Grave.

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That these flowers were men wish Corinna no more

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pp.168-169

Poem Title:

On Corinna's Wish.

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A scolding wife so long a sleep possessed

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p.169

Poem Title:

Mulieri ne crede, ne mortuae quidem.

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In the smooth plane your hand engraves

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p.169

Poem Title:

Written in a Lady's Table Book, under a Prayer to the Virgin Mary.

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Thou saidst that I alone thy heart could move

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p.170

Poem Title:

To his false Mistress.

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Whilst in his double elbow chair

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p.170

Poem Title:

Against an Atheist.

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Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame

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pp.170-171

Poem Title:

The Lady's Resolve.

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So sets the sun veiled with the shades of night

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p.171

Poem Title:

Upon a Lady sleeping with her Face cover'd.

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Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame

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p.171

Poem Title:

The Gentleman's Answer.

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A lusty old grave grey-headed sire

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p.172

Poem Title:

On a Civilian.

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How wretched does Prometheus' state appear

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p.172

Poem Title:

Prometheus ill painted.

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When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

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p.172

Poem Title:

Venus mistaken.

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In ancient times when Rome's fat priests did reign

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pp.173-177

Poem Title:

The Nunnery.

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Flavia the least and slightest toy

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p.173

Poem Title:

Written in the Leaves of a Fan

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by Dr. Atterbury, late Bishop of Rochester.

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Francis Atterbury

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Young Cupid early in the morn

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pp.177-178

Poem Title:

The Nineteenth Idyll. of Theocritus imitated.

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So fair so young so innocent so sweet

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p.178

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a young Lady.

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True Englishmen drink a good health to the mitre

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p.179

Poem Title:

On the Seven Bishops.

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When famed Apelles sought to frame

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p.179

Poem Title:

Upon a Picture of the Lady Hide.

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I know your heart cannot so guilty be

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p.180

Poem Title:

To a Lady who wore Patches.

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So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

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p.180

Poem Title:

On a handsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very covetous and proud.

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