The Posthumous Works of Mr. Samuel Butler [?not Suarez?] [T80391] [ecco]

DMI number:

39

Publication Date:

1730

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T80391

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112780811

Shelfmark:

BOD 280 n. 775

Full Title:

The Posthumous | WORKS | OF | Mr. [i]Samuel Butler,[/i] | (Author of [i]HUDIBRAS[/i]) | [i]Compleat in One VOLUME:[/i] | Written in the Time of the [g]Grand | Rebellion[/g], and in the Reign of King | CHARLES II. | BEING A Collection of SATIRES, SPEECHES, and | REFLECTIONS upon those Times; | Publish'd from Original M. SS and Scarce and Valuable | Pieces formerly Printed. | [double rule] | [g]The Third Edition, Corrected.[/g] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by and for R. REILY, in [i]Little-Britain[/i]; and | Sold by the Booksellers of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster[/i]. | [short rule] | MDCCXXX.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

0

Bibliographic details:

Engraved plates throughout. Half title: [i]BUTLER[/i]'s | POSTHUMOUS | WORKS.

Comments:

Although ESTC and ECCO ascribe the volume solely to Butler, CBEL seems right to declare it a miscellany. Prose sections pp. 193-309.

Other matter:

Contents pp. v-viii.

References:

For details of attribution see A. H. De Quehen, 'Account of works attributed to Samuel Butler' Review of English Studies 33/131 (1982) pp. 262-277.

Related People

Author:

Samuel Butler

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Butler is posited as the author of most of the pieces.

Publisher:

R. Reilly

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed by and for R. Reilly, in Little Britain; and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

After fierce wars and hot disputes

Page No:

pp.1-15

Poem Title:

Hudibras at Court.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

A Lion who had uncontrolled

Page No:

pp.15-33

Poem Title:

The Fable of the Lyon and the Fox. Alluding to the Cause and Manner of the Great Rebellion in the Year 1641.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

The glories of our birth and state

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

A thought upon Death, after hearing of the Murder of King Charles I.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

From all the mischiefs I shall mention

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

A Short Litany for the Year 1649.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Stay passenger stay and see

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon King Charles I.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Then take him devil hell his soul doth claim

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

Upon the Storm at the death of Oliver Cromwell, revers'd out of Mr. Waller's fine Piece of Flattery.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

He that would a new courtier be

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

A Song on Oliver's Court.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Say puritan if it should come to pass

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

An Old Song. By way of Dialogue.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

A Romish priest that died the other day

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

The Romish Priest deny'd Hell-Room.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Tell me not of lords and laws

Page No:

pp.39-42

Poem Title:

The Reformation.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Since it has been lately enacted high treason

Page No:

pp.42-44

Poem Title:

The Safety.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

With face and fashion to be known

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

The Tub-preacher.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Tis true to compliment the dead

Page No:

pp.45-50

Poem Title:

A Burlesque Pindarick Ode, to the Memory of the most renown'd Claud. Du Val, the Highwayman.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Rouse up great Charles thy courage shows

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Good Advice in Bad Times.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

In London streets is often seen

Page No:

pp.54-58

Poem Title:

The Character of a Fanatick.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Good morrow to thee how dost do

Page No:

59-46 [i.e. 64]

Poem Title:

The Morning's Salutation: or, a Friendly Conference between a Puritan Preacher and a Family of his Flock, upon the 30th of January.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Of all the factions in the town

Page No:

46[i.e. 64]-66

Poem Title:

The Geneva Ballad.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

What creature's that with his short hairs

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

The Round-Head.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

I come to charge ye

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

A Caveat to the Round-heads.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

I loved no king since forty one

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

The Turncoat. To the Tune of, London is a fine Town.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Our ancient poets sung of crowds

Page No:

pp.70-78

Poem Title:

The Characters of the five Sectaries, viz. Presbyterian, Independant, Anabaptist, Quaker, and Fifth Monarchy-Men. Concluding with Advice to King Charles the Second.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Near Dunstable upon the down

Page No:

pp.78-108

Poem Title:

Dunstable Downs; or the Inchanted Cave.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

When Henry's fury first grew tame

Page No:

pp.108-111

Poem Title:

An Essay.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Why should we boast of Lais and her knights

Page No:

pp.111-114

Poem Title:

Jane Shore and King Edward. The Tune, St. George and the Dragon.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Of civil dudgeon many a bard

Page No:

pp.115-119

Poem Title:

The Quarrel between Frank and Nan

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

The censuring world perhaps may not esteem

Page No:

pp.119-123

Poem Title:

A Satire on the Players

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Wretch whosoever thou art that longst for praise

Page No:

pp.123-127

Poem Title:

A Satire on the Poets

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Of all the sots with which the nation's cursed

Page No:

pp.127-130

Poem Title:

The present State of Matrimony

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Curse on those senseless fools who disallow

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

A Satire against Matrimony

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Give over you tilting sparks o'th'pit give over

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

The Battle of the Bauds

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Enjoy thy bondage make thy prison know

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

To Felton in the Tower. 1628.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

In Bedfordshire there dwelt a knight

Page No:

pp.135-158

Poem Title:

The Tale of the Cobler and the Vicar of Bray.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

He that is a clear

Page No:

pp.158-160

Poem Title:

The Cavalier, a Song

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Drawn by my pensive thoughts into a field

Page No:

pp.161-164

Poem Title:

The Satanical Cabal, a vision

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

In dead of night when the pale moon

Page No:

pp.165-169

Poem Title:

The Whig's Ghost

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Here lies Jack Gill

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on Jack Gill the Gamester

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

I sing a merry monarch's fame

Page No:

pp.170-192

Poem Title:

The Court Burlesqu'd

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

In days of yore when knight or squire

Page No:

pp.309-312

Poem Title:

Hudibras's Elegy

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Under this stone rests Hudibras

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

Hudibras's Epitaph.

Attribution:

Printed as 'The Remains of Mr. Samuel Butler'.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler