A collection of poems on several occasions [T95169]

DMI number:

732

Publication Date:

1747

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T95169

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110209136

Shelfmark:

BL - 11626e.63

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS. | Written in the Last CENTURY | BY | [2 columns] [column 1] The Earl of ROCHESTER, | Sir ROBERT HOWARD, | Sir HENRY HUBBART, | [/column 1] [column 2] MR. WOLSELEY, | Mr. PRIOR, | Mr. DRYDEN, &c. &c. [/column 2] | [rule] | [Epigraph] | [rule] | Now first Publish'd by [i] R. Cross, [/i] | Prompter to the THEATRE-ROYAL | in [i] Drury-Lane. [/i] | [double rule] | [i] LONDON, [/i] | Printed: And are to be had of Mr. [i] Cross [/i] at his Lodg- | ings over-against the [i] Rose-Tavern [/i] in [i] Russel-street Covent- | Garden [/i] ; and of Mr. [i] Dodsley [/i] in Pall-Mall [/i]. | [short rule] | M DCC XLVII.

Epigraph:

[i] Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura | Quae legis hic, aliter non fit, Avite, Liber. [/i] | MART.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2] [i]-x, [xi]-[xvi], [1]-174, 177-192 pp. (80 mispaginated 83).

Bibliographic details:

Half-title: [Ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS. | [Ornamental rule] Separate title page (for group of poems), p.172: [ornamental rule] THE FOLLOWING | PIECES | Were all Written within these Ten YEARS, | AND | NOW PUBLISH'D by Consent of the | AUTHORS. | [ornamental rule] Pagination: pp. 176-7 missing but text is continuous.

Comments:

Query: double check what's going on with the pagination - are two pages missing, or is 176 simply misnumbered 174?

Other matter:

Preface, pp.[v]-x; Contents page, pp.[xi]-[xvi].

References:

Case 455

Related People

Editor:

Richard Cross

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Sold by:

Robert Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

To God give glory as he does command

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pp.1-4

Poem Title:

Advice.

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First Line:

You say tis love creates the pain

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pp.5-7

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Dialogue.

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First Line:

As that soft wool which Tyrian purple stains

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pp.7-9

Poem Title:

To a Lady

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First Line:

How wise and happy are we grown of late

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pp.10-37

Poem Title:

The Protestant Satire: Or Some Reason, not all Rhyme. In Return to Mr. Bayes's Popish Libels written before the Death of the late King.

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First Line:

The sages of old

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

A Song

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First Line:

See how fair Corinna lies

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

A Song

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First Line:

Phillis talk no more of passion

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pp.42-43

Poem Title:

A Song

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As on a summer's day

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pp.43-46

Poem Title:

A Ballad

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First Line:

Who the joys of Gloucestershire can describe

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pp.46-49

Poem Title:

Sandywell: A Ballad

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First Line:

Too weak are laws and edicts vain

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pp.50-56

Poem Title:

The Edict of Prato, in Italy. From Boccace.

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First Line:

Patron of verse O Halifax attend

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pp.56-60

Poem Title:

An Epistle To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax. 1714.

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First Line:

Mercy O mercy conquering maid

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p.61

Poem Title:

A Song

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First Line:

Love you by all that's good I do

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

A Song

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by Sir T---- S-----h

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First Line:

Come fill up your glasses until they run over

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

A drinking Song.

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By the Late Earl of G--------n.

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First Line:

Fly swift ye hours make haste thou lazy sun

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

A Song

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First Line:

Dear Julian twice or thrice a year

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pp.65-70

Poem Title:

An Epistle

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First Line:

Since the united cunning of the stage

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pp.70-83 [i.e. 80]

Poem Title:

A Satyr.

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First Line:

Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend

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pp.83 [i.e 80] -93

Poem Title:

Satyr upon the Poets. In Imitation of the Seventh Satyr of Juvenal.

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First Line:

The fire of love in youthful blood

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pp.93-94

Poem Title:

A Song

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First Line:

Arms and the man hold rash unthinking muse

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pp.94-95

Poem Title:

On the Duke of Marlborough.

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First Line:

Tis true on canvas none can trace

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pp.95-96

Poem Title:

On the Dutchess of Bolton's Picture, drawn unlike her.

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First Line:

Ye streams who murmuring seem to bear

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p.96

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Chloe the wonder of her sex

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pp.97-98

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

How now pretty Phillis what no Queen of may

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p.97

Poem Title:

Answer to The Choir of bright Beauty.

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First Line:

Thyrsis unjustly you complain

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pp.98-99

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

The sun through thickest clouds at last

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pp.99-100

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Celia forgive me my passion

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pp.100-101

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Sylvia methinks you are unfit

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p.102-103

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Soft god of sleep when thou dost seal

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p.102

Poem Title:

A Song

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by Mr. Nash

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Thomas Nashe

First Line:

Brave youths who with your handsome sweethearts lie

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p.103

Poem Title:

The Bellman

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First Line:

All she says and does I weigh

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pp.104-105

Poem Title:

A Song

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By Mr. Worsley

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First Line:

When absent I from Phillis am

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

A Song

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By Sir H. H.

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First Line:

Foul leprosy or worse disease

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pp.106-107

Poem Title:

A Prophecy on Beauty

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First Line:

Be kind my dear Chloe let's kiss and let's love

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p.108

Poem Title:

By a Gentleman obliged by his Mistress to adapt Verses to the following Rhymes.

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By a Gentleman

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First Line:

If injured monarchs may their cause explore

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pp.109-111

Poem Title:

A Conference between K. J---s and K. W---m at the River Boyne.

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First Line:

Let England rejoice with heart and with voice

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pp.112-115

Poem Title:

A Song. To the Tune of Packinton's Pound.

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First Line:

From coachmen and from chairmen free

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pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Answer. The Worcester Life.

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First Line:

From envy and ambition free

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p.116

Poem Title:

The Indolent Swain.

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First Line:

Frankin why would'st thou die

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pp.117-119

Poem Title:

A Song of Secretary Coke, Occasion'd by the Death of Lord Francis Villiers.To an Irish Tune or Howl.

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Secretary Coke.

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First Line:

She is not the fairest of her name

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pp.120-121

Poem Title:

A Song of Secretary Coke.

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Secretary Coke

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First Line:

Not your eyes Milana move me

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p.122

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Chloe brisk and gay appears

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p.123

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Tell me mistaken friend where will you find

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p.124

Poem Title:

The Question Answer'd.

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First Line:

To Essex fill the sprightly wine

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pp.125-126

Poem Title:

The Toasts.

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First Line:

Though fortune and love may be deities still

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pp.126-127

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

I sing of a duel in Epsom befell

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p.128

Poem Title:

The Epsom Duel.

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First Line:

When Phebe did from England fly

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p.129

Poem Title:

A Satyr.

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First Line:

Sir | Among the swains who happy wishes send

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pp.130-132

Poem Title:

To the most Worthy and Generous William Brownlow, Esq; An Epihthalmium.

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First Line:

That nauseous ----- would for France

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pp.132-133

Poem Title:

The Wish

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First Line:

Now curses on that wretch that dares blaspheme

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pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by the foregoing Wish.

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First Line:

No more will I my passion hide

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pp.135-136

Poem Title:

A Song

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by Mr. Woorsley

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Robert Wolseley

First Line:

To the brook and the willow that heard him complain

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pp.136-139

Poem Title:

A Song. In Imitation of Shakespear's A poor Soul &c. in Othello.

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First Line:

How can they taste of joys or grief

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pp.140-141

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Do not most fragrant earl disclaim

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pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Imitation Of the Fourth Ode, Second Book of Horace. Lord G---- to the Earl of S----.

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Lord G----

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First Line:

The young Melania soft as infants tears

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pp.144-145

Poem Title:

The Tender Maid.

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First Line:

When first bright Maria's charms

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pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Song.

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First Line:

Come Celia let us agree at last

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pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Song.

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First Line:

Room for the pink of starched civility

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pp.147-148

Poem Title:

A Fragment.

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First Line:

Well hardy J---s thy ill-luck's strangely great

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pp.149-150

Poem Title:

A downright, plain, English Truth, By Way of Answer to a Malicious Satyr.

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First Line:

Twould discover her name if the fair one that charms

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p.150

Poem Title:

A Rebus.

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First Line:

O ye who are secure of your own salvation

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pp.151-152

Poem Title:

Epitaph on F---- S---d, Esq.

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First Line:

She assigned me a grove and now a sheet

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p.151

Poem Title:

Another on the Lady that brought this Sheet.

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First Line:

What is sifted from wheat and the Spaniard's great name

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p.151

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

Stop passenger

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pp.152-153

Poem Title:

Mock Epitaph

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First Line:

Tis now since I sat down before

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pp.154-156

Poem Title:

Ode. To the Lady L-----

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First Line:

To be dead drunk with stum that's brewed by art

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pp.156-157

Poem Title:

Parody on Mr. Pope's Prologue to Cato. A Fragment.

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First Line:

As fair Lucretia pensive walked alone

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pp.161-171

Poem Title:

Britannia's Loss, Or General Mourning.

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First Line:

What though in Celia's form is seen

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pp.173-174

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cross.

Attributed To:

Richard Cross

First Line:

How comes it doctor you are grown a jest

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pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Advice to a Parson who was angry with some Ladies, for reporting he was in Love.

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Born to instruct just always and sincere

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pp.178-179

Poem Title:

A Riddle.

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First Line:

Cupid forbear nor let thy fatal dart

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p.179

Poem Title:

Song.

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First Line:

In vain dear Chloe you strive to conceal

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pp.180-181

Poem Title:

To a Lady who endeavour'd to conceal her Love.

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First Line:

Your late misfortune willing I'd deplore

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pp.181-182

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman who had been Bit by his Dog.

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All gloomy thoughts and pining care

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pp.182-183

Poem Title:

Ode Imitated from Horace.

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By a Gentleman of Oxford.

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First Line:

Sit down tis a scandal for Christians to fight

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p.183

Poem Title:

Imitated from Horace.

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By the same. [i.e. Gentleman of Oxford.]

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First Line:

If gold could give us ease in pain

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pp.184-185

Poem Title:

Imitated from Anacreon.

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If you those epigrams commend

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p.185

Poem Title:

Another.

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By a Gentleman of Oxford.

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First Line:

Medicines in vain you on your friend bestow

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p.185

Poem Title:

Epigram ... On a certain Empirick and Scribler.

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By a Gentleman of Oxford.

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First Line:

Lollius with head bent back and close shut eyes

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p.186

Poem Title:

Another.

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By a Gentleman of Oxford.

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First Line:

One Sunday morn in blithsom May

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pp.186-188

Poem Title:

Song.

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By the same. [i.e. Gentleman of Oxford]

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First Line:

A thousand charms if Lesbia boast

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p.189

Poem Title:

Song.

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First Line:

Long since the muses have been taught to raise

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pp.190-192

Poem Title:

Verse in Praise of the Tooth-ach. Wrote at the Command of a young Lady who cur'd the Author of a Fit of it.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford.

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