The muses mercury [P2007] [August 1707]

DMI number:

182

Aliases

Muses mercury

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

01/08/1707

Volume Number:

8 of 13

ESTC number:

P2007

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB128994980

Shelfmark:

BOD Don. e. 167

Full Title:

THE | Muses Mercury: | OR, | [g]Monthly Miscellany.[/g] | Consisting of | Poems, Prologues, Songs, Sonnets, Translations, | and other Curious Pieces, Never before Printed. | By the Best and most Celebrated Hands; | WITH | An EPISTLE to Dr. [i]GARTH[/i], | Occasion'd by the Death of His Grace the late | Duke of [i]DEVONSHIRE.[/i] | [rule] | For the Month of [i]AUGUST[/i]. | [rule] | [g]To be continu'd Monthly.[/g] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], Printed by [i]J. H.[/i] for [g]Andrew Bell[/g], at the [i]Cross Keys[/i] | and [i]Bible[/i] in [i]Cornhill[/i], near [i]Stocks-Market[/i]. 1707. | Where are to be sold those for [i]January, February, March, April, May, June, | July,[/i] &c.

Epigraph:

[i]Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Periodical miscellany

Format:

Quarto

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[2], 173-194 pp. (continues from preceding issue)

Bibliographic details:

BOD Don e. 167 contains all 13 parts.

Comments:

Contents: Latin text, pp. 186-188.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents, p. [ii].

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Related People

Editor:

John Oldmixon

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

See ESTC record

Printer:

J. H.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed by J. H. for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-Market.'

Publisher:

Andrew Bell

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed by J. H. for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-Market.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Oh could we touch like you the sacred lyre

Page No:

pp.173-178

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Dr. Garth, Occasion'd by the Death of his Grace the late Duke of Devonshire.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As old as the world yet an infant is love

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Epigram upon Love

Attribution:

By Mr. O-----l

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In you we nature's art adore

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

To Brunetta, in Defence of a Brown Beauty. A Song Sung by Mrs. Tofts, and set to Musick by Mr. Weldon.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Mr O----l]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cease cease on kind husbands hard names to bestow

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

Song...Set by Mr. D. P.

Attribution:

The Words by Mr. M------x

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For shame ye bold Britains what makes you so mad

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

An Epigram On the Raising the Seige of Toulon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Absurdly craft and wisdom we confound

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

On Craft and Wisdom.

Attribution:

By Sir T. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What wanton prices fond opinion sets

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

On the Great and True Value of Riches

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. T. C.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When T-- first wasted paper the report

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

A Tumult in Parnassus, suddenly appeas'd, by the great Wisdom of Apollo.

Attribution:

By W. Colepeper, Esq

Attributed To:

William Colepeper

First Line:

A mouse who lived in Golden-square

Page No:

pp.183-185

Poem Title:

The City Mouse and Country Mouse, out of Fontane.

Attribution:

By J. H. Esq

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O nymph of nymphs how you excel

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

To a Fine Lady for a Wife, with one Objection.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Colepeper]

Attributed To:

William Colepeper

First Line:

Amyntas while you

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

To J. Hoyle, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mrs. Behn

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Tis your desire my dearest friends that I

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Martial, Epigram 47. Book 10.

Attribution:

By Mr. Richard Clavering

Attributed To:

Richard Clavering

First Line:

Underneath a myrtle shade

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

Anacreon, Ode IV. On Himself. [Greek] &c.

Attribution:

By J. H. Esq

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The earth we see drinks up the rain

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

Ode XIX. On Drinking.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. J. H]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Didst never observe good friend of mine

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Mr. M. to N. C. to disswade him from endeavouring to break a Match between Mr. ----- and Mrs. B---- in Imitation of Hor. Lib. 3. Ode 20.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though I ten thousand times had sworn

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

The Perjur'd.

Attribution:

By the same Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since the more I incline coy Silvia to please

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

On Mrs. M. A Song

Attribution:

by J. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when the business of the day is done

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

To a Lady's Bed.

Attribution:

By Mr. Uvedale

Attributed To:

Thomas Uvedale

First Line:

There's a thing in the world much talked of by all

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

An Aenigma.

Attribution:

By J. H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed