The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]

DMI number:

126

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 2.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1716

Volume Number:

2 of 6

ESTC number:

N70161

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW117073451

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 18

Full Title:

The SECOND PART of | Miscellany Poems. | Containing Variety of New | TRANSLATIONS | OF THE | [i]ANCIENT POETS:[/i] | Together with Several | ORIGINAL POEMS. | [rule] | [i]By the Most Eminent Hands.[/i] | [rule] Publish'd by Mr. [i]DRYDEN.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for JACOB TONSON at [i]Shakespear[/i]'s | [i]Head[/i] over-against [i]Katherine-Street[/i] in | the [i]Strand[/i]. M DCC XVI.

Epigraph:

---[i]Non deficit alter | Aureus; & simili frondescit virga metallo[/i] Virg.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

(not including plate) [10], [1]-396 (348 misnumbered 344; 369 misnumbered 269)

Bibliographic details:

Plate facing titlepage; Second part of Absolom and Achitophel has separate titlepage; as do The Duel of the Stags and The Court Prospect.

Comments:

Contents: much altered from previous edition. Among the additions are a number of poems by Ben Jonson, together with a series of elegies on his death. Some items in Latin (pp. 148-9, Ben Jonson; pp. 289-305 (alternate pages) Latin translation of Chevy Chase; pp. 364-367)

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents (A3r-A6v).

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1716

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Related People

Editor:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Publish'd by Mr. Dryden'

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's Head over-against Katherine-Street in the Strand.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Since men like beasts each others prey were made

Page No:

pp.5-35

Poem Title:

The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel.

Attribution:

Dryden and Tate's joint authorship described in address to the reader

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus equal deaths are dealt and equal chance

Page No:

pp.38-44

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Mezentius and Lausus, translated out of the Tenth Book of Virgil's Aeneids.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now night with sable wings the world overspread

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

The Speech of Venus to Vulcan

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Delight of human kind and gods above

Page No:

pp.46-48

Poem Title:

Lucretius. The Beginning of the First Book.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis pleasant safely to behold from shore

Page No:

pp.48-50

Poem Title:

Lucretius, The Beginning of the Second Book.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What has this bugbear death to frighten man

Page No:

pp.50-59

Poem Title:

Translation of the latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus therefore he who feels the fiery dart

Page No:

pp.59-67

Poem Title:

Lucretius. The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love. ... Beginning at this Line, Sic igitur, Veneris qui telis accipit, ictum, &c.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The shepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride

Page No:

pp.68-72

Poem Title:

Daphnis. From Theocritus Idyll. 27.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

From Lucretius Book V.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Behold yon mountain's hoary height

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Horace Lib. I. Ode 9.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Descended of an ancient line

Page No:

pp.74-77

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd in Pindarique Verse; and inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How happy in his low degree

Page No:

pp.77-80

Poem Title:

From Horace, Epod. 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Fair royal maid permit a youth undone

Page No:

pp.80-82

Poem Title:

Bajazet to Gloriana, 1684.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed he that with a mighty hand

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

On Content.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Margarita first possessed

Page No:

pp.84-86

Poem Title:

The Chronicle. A Ballad.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

A session was held the other day

Page No:

pp.87-90

Poem Title:

A Session of the Poets.

Attribution:

By Sir John Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Apollo concerned to see the transgressions

Page No:

pp.90-95

Poem Title:

The Session of the Poets. To the Tune of Cook-Lawrel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since the sons of the muses grew numerous and loud

Page No:

pp.96-98

Poem Title:

A Session of the Poets.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So dark the night was that old Charon

Page No:

pp.99-102

Poem Title:

News from Hell.

Attribution:

By Captain Alexander Radcliff

Attributed To:

Alexander Radcliffe

First Line:

Rat too rat too rat too rat tat too tat rat too

Page No:

pp.103-108

Poem Title:

A Call to the Guard by a Drum.

Attribution:

By Captain Alexander Radcliffe

Attributed To:

Alexander Radcliffe

First Line:

While duns were knocking at my door

Page No:

pp.108-119

Poem Title:

The Ramble.

Attribution:

By Captain Alexander Radcliffe

Attributed To:

Alexander Radcliffe

First Line:

Twere folly if ever

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

A New Song of the Times, 1683.

Attribution:

By the Honourable William Wharton

Attributed To:

William Wharton

First Line:

Yes fickle Cambridge Perkins found this true

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

On the University of Cambridge's Burning the Duke of Monmouth's Picture, 1685. who was formerly their Chancellor. In Answer to this Question, ----Sed quid | Turba remi? sequitur fortunatum, ut semper, & odit----- | Damnatos.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Not all the threats or favours of a crown

Page No:

pp.123-127

Poem Title:

The Man of Honour ... Occasion'd by a Postscript of Pen's Letter.

Attribution:

Written by the Honourable Mr. Montague.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

I spend my sad life in sighs and in cries

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

Song. To Caelia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No more on my knees to a beauty I'll sue

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Windsor Forest before war destroyed

Page No:

pp.133-140

Poem Title:

The Duel of the Stags.

Attribution:

Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Ranging the plain one summer's night

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The night her blackest sables wore

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cook lawrel would needs have the devil his guest

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

A Song, on the Devil's Arse of the Peak.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Drink to me only with thine eyes

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

Song. To Celia.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Good and great god can I not think of thee

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

To Heaven.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

To make the doubt clear that no woman's true

Page No:

pp.146-148

Poem Title:

An Elegy.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

As the fund of our pleasure let each pay his shot

Page No:

pp.149-151

Poem Title:

Rules for the Tavern Academy, &c.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Welcome all that lead or follow

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

Over the Door at the Entrance into the Apollo.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Of your trouble Ben to ease me

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

Her Man described by her own Dictamen.

Attribution:

By Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I love and he loves me again

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

A Nymph's Passion.

Attribution:

By Ben Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

Page No:

pp.155-163

Poem Title:

An Eclogue on the Death of Ben. Johnson, between Meliboeus and Hylas.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Falkland

Attributed To:

Lucius Cary

First Line:

I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

Upon Ben Johnson.

Attribution:

By Mr. Henry King

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

As when the vestal hearth went out no fire

Page No:

pp.165-168

Poem Title:

To the Memory of Ben Johnson.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jasper Mayne

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Father of poets though thine own great day

Page No:

pp.168-173

Poem Title:

In Memory of the most Worthy Benjamin Johnson.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Cartwright

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

On the bank of a river close under the shade

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

High state and honours to others impart

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

An Ayre on a Ground.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That beauteous creature for whom I'm a lover

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The bright Laurinda whose hard fate

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pox upon this needless scorn

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hark how the mower Damon sung

Page No:

pp.177-179

Poem Title:

Damon the Mower.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Think'st thou that this love can stand

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-ropes.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

Some Verses sent by a Friend to one who twice ventur'd his Carcase in Marriage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a horse beneath this stone

Page No:

pp.182-183

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon a Stumbling-Horse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See Britons see one half before your eyes

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Prologue for Sir John Falstaff, rising slowly to soft Musick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

First was the world as one great cymbal made

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Musick's Empire.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

How vainly men themselves amaze

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

The Garden.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Must poor lovers still be wooing

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lucinda by a secret art

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So pale Amintas do thy looks appear

Page No:

pp.189-191

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between Daphney and Amintas.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You I love by all that's true

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Humbly sheweth | Should you order Tom Brown

Page No:

pp.191-191

Poem Title:

To the Lords assembled in Council. The Petition of Tho. Brown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye vile traducers of the female kind

Page No:

pp.192-194

Poem Title:

The Confederates: Or, the first Happy Day of the Island Princess.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Harry canst thou find no subject fit

Page No:

pp.195-197

Poem Title:

A Letter from J. P. to Colonel H. occasion'd by the Colonel's two late Letters.

Attribution:

A Letter from J. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As fair Olinda sat beneath a shady tree

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

Cure for Green Sickness, 1702.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A late expedition to Oxford was made

Page No:

pp.198-200

Poem Title:

On the Lord Lovelace's coming to Oxford from Glocester Goal in December, 1688.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I Chloris ere I die

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sleep Adam sleep and take thy rest

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

Adam's Sleep

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nor com'st thou yet my slothful love nor yet

Page No:

pp.202-204

Poem Title:

Hero's Complaint to Leander.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What art thou love whence are those charms

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you know how we meet over our jolly full bowls

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

A New Catch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I beheld the poet blind yet bold

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Climb at court for me that will

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

Senec. Tragoed. ex. Thyeste Chor. 2.

Attribution:

Translated by Andrew Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Today a mighty hero comes to warm

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

A Prologue design'd for Tamerlane, but never spoke.

Attribution:

Written by Dr. G---th

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Sicilian muse begin a loftier flight

Page No:

pp.209-212

Poem Title:

The Golden Age Restor'd. A Poem in Imitation of the fourth Pastoral of Virgil; suppos'd to have been taken from a Sibylline Prophecy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

On the Countess of D----r Mistress to King J--- II. 1680.

Attribution:

By the Earl of D-----

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Cease anxious world your fruitless pain

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Sir George Ethridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

In some kind dream upon her slumber steal

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

By Sir George Ethridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

How can they taste of joys or grief

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. John How

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors

Page No:

pp.215-219

Poem Title:

Part of Virgil's IVth Georgick.

Attribution:

By Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

The Fourteenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

Page No:

pp.220-226

Poem Title:

The First Idyllium of Theocritus. Translated into English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Are you grown lazy or does some disease

Page No:

pp.226-228

Poem Title:

The Reapers. The Tenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Englished by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Scarce three whole days my lovely youth had passed

Page No:

pp.228-230

Poem Title:

[Greek]. Or, the Twelfth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cupid the sliest rogue alive

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

[Greek]: Or the Nineteenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a dark silent shady grove

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There on the extremest beach and farthest sand

Page No:

pp.232-235

Poem Title:

The Complaint of Ariadna. Out of Catullus.

Attribution:

By Mr William Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Proud Eunica when I advanced to kiss

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

The Twentieth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

To Lesbia. Out of Catullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

To Lesbia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

The Seventh Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By an unknown hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We must all live and we would all live well

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

The Tenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear friend for surely I may call him so

Page No:

pp.241-247

Poem Title:

The Eighteenth Epistle of the First Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why this talking still of dying

Page No:

pp.248-249

Poem Title:

Another Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Freedom is a real treasure

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolseley

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

When wits from sighing turn to railing

Page No:

p.248

Poem Title:

Answer'd.

Attribution:

by Mr. Wharton

Attributed To:

Mr. Wharton

First Line:

I was at first a piece of fig tree wood

Page No:

pp.249-251

Poem Title:

The Eighth Satyr of the First Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

Arise great monarch see the joyful day

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

An Ode. Sung before King Charles II. on New-Years-Day.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Allestry

Attributed To:

Jacob Allestry

First Line:

Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy

Page No:

pp.254-259

Poem Title:

The Episode of the Death of Camilla. Translated out of the Eleventh Book of Virgil's Aeneids.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

What ail'st thou oh thou trembling thing

Page No:

pp.259-261

Poem Title:

To my Heart.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What should I ask my friend which best would be

Page No:

qu

Poem Title:

Cato's Answer to Labienus, when he advis'd him to Consult the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon. Being a Paraphrastical Translation of part of the Ninth Book of Lucan, beginning at - Quid quaeri, Labiene, jubes, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolseley

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

Sir | As once a twelve month to the priest

Page No:

pp.263-268

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Fleetwood Shepherd.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pryor

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let equipage and dress despair

Page No:

pp.268-269

Poem Title:

Song of Basset.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

To that prodigious height of vice we're grown

Page No:

pp.269-272

Poem Title:

A Prologue to Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me gentle Strephon why

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue between Phyllis and Strephon.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Ye sacred nymphs of Lebethra be by

Page No:

pp.273-279

Poem Title:

The Nature of Women; A Translation of Part of the Fourth Eclogue of Mantuan. A Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since love and verse as well as wine

Page No:

pp.279-281

Poem Title:

Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.

Attribution:

Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

To you who live in chill degree

Page No:

pp.281-283

Poem Title:

A Letter from Mr. Dryden to Sir George Etheridge.

Attribution:

From Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

From hunting whores and haunting play

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

Sir George Etheridge's second Letter to the Lord Middleton.

Attribution:

Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

On the remains of an old blasted oak

Page No:

pp.285-287

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Oldham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.288-304

Poem Title:

Chevy-Chase, By Order of the Bishop of London.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All joy to mortals joy and mirth

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As wretched vain and indiscreet

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you be quite cured of love

Page No:

pp.306-308

Poem Title:

Remedy of Love.

Attribution:

By Mr. Evelyn

Attributed To:

John Evelyn

First Line:

Come poetry and with thee bring along

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

An Ode ... for Her Majesty, Queen to King Charles I.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Abraham Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Fair virtue should I follow thee

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

On Virtue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Evelyn

Attributed To:

John Evelyn

First Line:

I love I dote I rave with pain

Page No:

pp.310-312

Poem Title:

The Complaint. A Song to a Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

No more will I my passion hide

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As leaves which from the trees blown down

Page No:

p.313

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain

Page No:

pp.314-315

Poem Title:

Prologue

Attribution:

By Major Aston

Attributed To:

Edmund Ashton

First Line:

Though never so base or never so sublime

Page No:

pp.315-317

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What Greece when learning flourished only knew

Page No:

pp.317-318

Poem Title:

Prologue, to the University of Oxon, spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

No poor Dutch peasant winged with all his fear

Page No:

pp.318-319

Poem Title:

Epilogue, spoken by the same.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Poets your subjects have their parts assigned

Page No:

pp.319-320

Poem Title:

Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Oft has our poet wished this happy seat

Page No:

p.321

Poem Title:

Epilogue spoken at Oxford, by Mrs. Marshall.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Discord and plots which have undone our age

Page No:

p.322

Poem Title:

Prologue to the University of Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though actors cannot much of learning boast

Page No:

pp.323-324

Poem Title:

Prologue to the University of Oxford.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thespis the first professor of our art

Page No:

pp.324-325

Poem Title:

The Prologue at Oxford, 1680.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

To say this comedy pleased long ago

Page No:

pp.325-326

Poem Title:

The Prologue to Albumazar.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

With sickly actors and an old house too

Page No:

pp.326-327

Poem Title:

Prologue to Aviragus Reviv'd: Spoken by Mr. Hart.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

So shipwrecked passengers escape to land

Page No:

pp.327-328

Poem Title:

Prologue spoken the first Day of the King's House Acting after the Fire.

Attribution:

Writ by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Were none of you gallants ever driven so hard

Page No:

pp.328-329

Poem Title:

Prologue for the Women, when they Acted at the old Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A plain built house after so long a stay

Page No:

pp.329-330

Poem Title:

A Prologue spoken at the opening of the New House, March 26, 1674.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Though what our prologue said was sadly true

Page No:

pp.331-332

Poem Title:

Epilogue

Attribution:

'by the same author' [i.e. Dryden]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Were you but half so wise as you are severe

Page No:

p.332

Poem Title:

An Epilogue.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

We act by fits and starts like drowning men

Page No:

pp.333-334

Poem Title:

An Epilogue for the King's House.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear

Page No:

pp.334-335

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Princess of Cleves.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A qualm of conscience brings me back again

Page No:

pp.335-336

Poem Title:

Epilogue to the Princess of Cleves.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As down the torrent of an angry flood

Page No:

p.336

Poem Title:

The Fable of the Pot and Kettle, as it was told by Colonel Titus the Night before his Kiss'd the King's Hand.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how

Page No:

pp.337-339

Poem Title:

Cynisca: Or, the Fourteenth Idyllium of Theocritus imitated.

Attribution:

By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Now first with bolder sails I tempt the main

Page No:

pp.340-344

Poem Title:

Proteus: Being the Fourth Eclogue of Sannazarius. Inscribed to Ferdinand of Arragon, Duke of Calabria, Son of Frederick King of Naples.

Attribution:

By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Ye happy swains whose hearts are free

Page No:

p.344

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Sir G. Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

In Chloris all soft charms agree

Page No:

pp.344-345

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. H.

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

The gods are not more blessed than he

Page No:

pp.345-346

Poem Title:

Sappho's Ode from Longinus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Lyce the gods have heard my prayer

Page No:

pp.346-347

Poem Title:

The Thirteenth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

pp.344[8]-349

Poem Title:

The Grove.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In those cold regions which no summers cheer

Page No:

pp.349-350

Poem Title:

Prologue to his Royal Highness, upon his first Appearance at the Duke's Theatre, since his Return from Scotland, 1682.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I'll tell you a story if it be true

Page No:

pp.350-353

Poem Title:

The Salisbury Ghost

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What horror's this that dwells upon the plain

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

The Beginning of a Pastoral on the Death of His Late Majesty.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Since earth and water more dilated air

Page No:

pp.355-360

Poem Title:

Of Nature's Changes. From Lucretius, Lib. V.

Attribution:

By Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Condemned to Pontus tired with endless toil

Page No:

pp.360-362

Poem Title:

Elegy XI. Lib. V. De Trist. Ovid complains of his three Years Banishment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all heaven's judgments that was sure the worst

Page No:

pp.362-364

Poem Title:

Upon the late Ingenious Translation of Pere Simon's Critical History. By H. D. Esq.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go tell Amynta gentle swain

Page No:

pp.367-368

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As soon as mild Augustus could assuage

Page No:

pp.368-370

Poem Title:

On the King's-House now Building at Winchester.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Brightest of virgins whose high race and name

Page No:

pp.370-371

Poem Title:

To a Lady, (whom he never saw, nor had any Description of) to prove he Loves her.

Attribution:

By a person of quality

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some brag of their Chloris and some of their Phyllis

Page No:

pp.371-372

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath a cool shade where some here have been

Page No:

p.372

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Weep all you virgins meet over this sad hearse

Page No:

pp.373-375

Poem Title:

On the Death of Melantha.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Little songster who dost bring

Page No:

pp.375-380

Poem Title:

To the Nightingale coming in the Spring. To invite Chloe from the Tumults of the Town to the Innocent Retreat in the Country.

Attribution:

Written by a person of quality in 1680

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome dear Thyrsis far above

Page No:

pp.381-382

Poem Title:

An Elegy ... Damon and Thyrsis.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. W. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Above that bridge which lofty turrets crown

Page No:

pp.387-396

Poem Title:

The Court-Prospect.

Attribution:

By Mr. Charles Hopkins

Attributed To:

Charles Hopkins