The rhapsody. Being a display of the wit and humour of past times [T62617]
- DMI number:
- 763
- Publication Date:
- 1750
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T62617
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111489980
- Shelfmark:
- Bod Harding E 249
- Full Title:
- THE | RHAPSODY. | BEING | A DISPLAY | OF THE | WIT and HUMOUR | OF | PAST TIMES. | Compiled from the Curious Remains of the | Principal POETS and BEAUX ESPRITS | who were Eminent for Either. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by A. McCULLOH, | For F. COGAN, at the [i]Middle-Temple Gate[/i] | M,DCC,L.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], 3-84
- Comments:
- Contents: Prose pp. 3-7, 54-5, 64-76, Latin verse pp. 16-7, 56-63, 77, 79-80, 81-2.
- Printer:
- A. McCulloh
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- F Cogan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- To tell the world what it hath lost in thee
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy to the Living Memory of his Deceased Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Nevill.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Nevill
- First Line:
- I write not elegies nor tune my verse
- Page No:
- pp.8-10
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- First Line:
- We do not usher forth thy verse with these
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- To the Worthy Muse of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- First Line:
- Ye heavenly sisters by whose sacred skill
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- A Congratulation to the Muses, for the immortalizing of his dear Father by the Sacred Virtue of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- John Beaumont.
- Attributed To:
- Beaumont||John||Jr
- First Line:
- You who prepare to read grave Beaumont's verse
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- Upon the following Poem of my dear Father, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet, deceas'd.
- Attribution:
- Francis Beaumont.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- When lines are drawn greater than nature art
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Poem of his dearest Brother, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- George Fortescue.
- Attributed To:
- George Fortescue
- First Line:
- This book will live it hath a genius this
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- On the honour'd Poem of his honour'd Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Ben. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- This Posthumus from the brave parents name
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- To the dear Remembrance of his noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Mi. Drayton.
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
- First Line:
- I knew thee not I speak it to my shame
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- Upon the honoured Poem of his unknown Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Ja. Cl.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The winter's storm of civil war I sing
- Page No:
- pp.18-43
- Poem Title:
- Bosworth-Field: A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Beaumont
- First Line:
- Each woman is a brief of womankind
- Page No:
- pp.44-54
- Poem Title:
- A Wife.
- Attribution:
- writ by Sir Thomas Overbury, for a while the Favourite, and at last the Martyr of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Overbury
- First Line:
- Upon a time the fairy elves
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- On the King of Fairy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye virtuousi have it to you assigned
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- To the Virtuosi.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No sooner was their king attired
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- On the Queen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wretch that I am and is it come to this
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- The Last Sayings of a Mouse lately starved in a Cupboard. As they were taken, in Short-Hand, by a zealous Ratcatcher who listen'd at the Keyhole of the Cup-board Door, 1681.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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