The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]

DMI number:

845

Publication Date:

1752

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T85787

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW114771776

Full Title:

THE | SPORTS of the MUSES. | OR A | MINUTE's MIRTH | For any HOUR of the DAY. | Containing a Select COLLECTION of only the best | and most approved ENGLISH and SCOTCH SONGS, | BALLADS and TALES; and of the most in-| genious and diverting EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, | RIDDLES, BON MOTS, and other short Pieces | of Wit and Humour, by our most celebrated | Poets, [i]viz.[/i] | [three columns] [col1] SPENSER, | SHAKESPEAR, | JOHNSON, | MILTON, | DRYDEN, | COWLEY, | WALLER, [/col1] | [col2] ROCHESTER, | ROSCOMMON, | BUCKINGHAM, | CONGREVE, | ADDISON, | STEELE, | PRIOR, [/col2] | [col3] GAY, | PARNELL, | PHILIPS, | SWIFT, | POPE, | CHE--F--D, | L--Y--N, [/col3] | And Others, whose Names are here prefixed to the | several Pieces of which they are the Authors. | VOL. II. | [engraved ornament] | LONDON Printed: And Sold by M. Cooper, 1752.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Contents: Tales &c pp. 1-120; Epigams pp. 121-92; Epitaphs pp. 193-223; Riddles pp. 224-54; Prose jests pp.255-318. Latin verse p. 187, 195, 196, 202, 203, 205, 207, 208. French verse p. 214. Epitaphs not in verse pp. 200-1, 203, 204, 213. Riddles not in verse pp. 243, 244, 252. Duplicate poem: poem id 13740 appears twice in this miscellany, p. 163 + p. 194; poem id 24173 appears twice in this miscellany, p. 209 + 213.

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Publication Date:

1752

ESTC No:

T85787

Volume:

1 of 2

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Comments:

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Sold by:

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Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

If evils come not then our fears are vain

Page No:

Poem Title:

CCXV.

Attribution:

From Sir Thomas More.

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas More

First Line:

Hence loathed melancholy

Page No:

pp.1-5

Poem Title:

L' Allegro, or Mirth.

Attribution:

By Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

O the great happiness which shepherds have

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

The Happy Shepherd.

Attribution:

From Spenser's Fairy Queen.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

In every town where Thamis rolls his tide

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Alley. In Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Happy the man who void of cares and strife

Page No:

pp.8-12

Poem Title:

The Splendid Shilling. In Imitation of Milton.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Philips.

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Ingenious L-- were a picture drawn

Page No:

pp.12-27

Poem Title:

The Art of Cookery. In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry...To Dr. Lister.

Attribution:

By Dr. King.

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

If Bellvill can his generous soul confine

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace's Invitation of Torquatus to Supper. Which is the Fifth Epistle to his First Book.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

Young Slouch the farmer had a jolly wife

Page No:

p.29-31

Poem Title:

The Old Cheese.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

Two neighbours Clod and Jolt would married be

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Skillet.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

Tom Banks by native industry was taught

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

The Fisherman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

From London Paul the carrier coming down

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Little Mouths.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

There was a lad the unluckiest of his crew

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Hold Fast Below.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

A virtuoso had a mind to see

Page No:

pp.35-37

Poem Title:

The Incurious.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. King]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The shepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride

Page No:

pp.37-39

Poem Title:

Daphnis and Chloe. A Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Interred beneath this marble stone

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Sauntring Jack and Idle Joan.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Nell scolded in so loud a din

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

A Quiet Life and a Good Name. To a Friend who married a Shrew.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

The sceptics think 'twas long ago

Page No:

pp.43-47

Poem Title:

The Ladle, or the Triple Wish.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

This commoner has worth and parts

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

Moral

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Corinna pride of Drury Lane

Page No:

pp.47-49

Poem Title:

A Beautiful young Nymph going to Bed.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Beauty's a gaudy sign no more

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

The Curious Maid.

Attribution:

By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

Hans Carvel impotent and old

Page No:

pp.51-55

Poem Title:

Hans Carvel's Ring, or a Charm against Cuckoldom. A Tale. From La Fontaine.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

It so befell a silly swain

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Desponding Phyllis was endued

Page No:

pp.56-59

Poem Title:

Phyllis; or the Progress of Love.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Beyond the fixed and settled rules

Page No:

pp.59-63

Poem Title:

Paulo Purganti and his Wife. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Of Chloe all the town has rung

Page No:

pp.63-71

Poem Title:

Strephon and Chloe. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

From public noise and factious strife

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst men have these ambitious fancies

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

Moral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Britain's isle and Arthur's days

Page No:

pp.74-79

Poem Title:

A Fairy Tale, in the antient English Style.

Attribution:

By Dr. Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

A monkey to reform the times

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

The Monkey who had seen the World. A Fable.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

My meaning will be best unravelled

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

Tim and the Fables...Occasioned by the preceding Fable of Mr. Gay.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Parson tis false I'll never believe

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Frugal Advice to a Chaplain. Familiarized in the Manner of Dr. Swift.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In days my lord when mother time

Page No:

pp.83-88

Poem Title:

An Epistle from S. J. Esq; in the Country, to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town. Written in the year 1735.

Attribution:

from S. J. Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twere well my friend for human kind

Page No:

pp.88-90

Poem Title:

The Two Beavers. A Fable.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Duck.

Attributed To:

Stephen Duck

First Line:

Farewell aspiring thoughts no more

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

Contentment.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Duck]

Attributed To:

Stephen Duck

First Line:

Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Sonnet.

Attribution:

By Mr. E--.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature and fortune blithe and gay

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

Nature and Fortune. To the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A rap at the door when forth from her chair

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

A Modern Visit.

Attribution:

By S--me J--ny--ns, Esq;

Attributed To:

Soame Jenyns

First Line:

When the loud waves in mountains rise

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

A Simile.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whenever I wive young Strephon cried

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

The Spell. By Geo. Stepney, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Blessed he that with a mighty hand

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

On Content.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let that majestic pen that writes

Page No:

pp.97-116

Poem Title:

The Counter Scuffle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O mother chave been a batchelour

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

The West Country Batchelor's Complaint.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is this bugbear death that's worth our care

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Sonnet. On Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

His angle rod made of a sturdy oak

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

Upon a Giant's Angling.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the chill Charokoe blows

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

In Praise of Ale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why will Delia thus retire

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Receipt to cure the Vapours.

Attribution:

Written by Lady J--n.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cried Strephon panting in Cosmelia's arms

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

III. The Rapture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou swearest thou'lt drink no more kind heaven send

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

IV. Venus mistaken.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ancient Phyllis has young graces

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

I.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve, in the Double Dealer.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Very nicely thou layest on thy colours dear Nan

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

VIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Anchises Paris and Adonis too

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

V. Spoken by Venus on seeing her Statue done by Praxteles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Miss for court service is quickly prepared

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

VII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phyllis confessed her the father was rash

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But ancient poets thou admirest none

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

XII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Seven times a day the just men sin

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

IX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Cyprian queen drawn by Apelles' hand

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

XI. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, drawing the Lady Hide's Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Lupus has wrought hard all day

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

X.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How blessed a life how short its date

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

XVII. On the Death of Mrs. B--s.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

M---- though he must abstain from meat

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

XV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The expense in perfumes is a most vain sin

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

XVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy eyes and eyebrows I could spare

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

XIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

XIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Concanan.

Attributed To:

Matthew Concanen

First Line:

Hail happy bride for thou art truly blessed

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

XVIII. On the same Occasion.

Attribution:

Written extempore by the Lady M. W. M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That all from Adam first begun

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

XIX. The Old Gentry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How ill the motion with the music suits

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

XX. Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Offspring of a tuneful sire

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

XXIV. To the Dutchess of Beaufort.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Orpheus played so well he moved old Nick

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

To a bad Fiddler.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you are deaf to love you may

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

XXIII. In a Lady's Prayer-Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Flavia the least and slightest toy

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

XXII. Written in the Leaves of a Fan

Attribution:

By Dr. Atterbury, late Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Francis Atterbury

First Line:

I owe says Metius much to Colon's care

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She first departed he for one day tried

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXX. On a Gentleman who died the Day after his Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sometimes to sense sometimes to nonsense leaning

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXVII. A Character.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art soft to touch charming to hear unseen

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Lesbia first I saw so heavenly fair

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To John I owed great obligation

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

XXVIII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Baker and poet swell thy glorious name

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

XXXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe a coquet in her prime

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

XXXII. On the Marriage of an Old Maid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I hate and yet I love thee too

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

XXXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Indulgent nature to each kind bestows

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

XXXIII. On the Burser of St. John's College, Oxon, cutting down a fine Row of Trees.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bright as the day and as the morning fair

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

XXXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By a Ravenna vintner once betrayed

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

XXXV. From Martial.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If beauteous Kitty boasts a charm

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

XXXVII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three poets in three distant ages born

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

XXXVII. On Milton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mendax 'tis said thou art such a liar grown

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

XLI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among the fair that Hide Park Circus grace

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

XLIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of two reliefs to ease a lovesick mind

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

XL.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That speech surpasses force is no new whim

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

XXXIX. Lingua potentior armis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ten months after Florimel happened to wed

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

XLII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

All nature's charms in Sunderland appear

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XLVI. On Lady Sunderland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Man and money a mutual friendship show

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XLV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature in pity has denied you shape

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XLVII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Paulus the famous quack renowned afar

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XLVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You say you'll spend a thousand pound

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XLIV. To a Fool going to travel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature's chief gifts unequally are carved

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

LI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Paula thou fain would'st marry me

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

LII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She's bent like a ninepence and would have been broken

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

XLIX. On a crooked, cross-grain'd Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those envious flakes came down in haste

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

L. On some Snow that melted on a Lady's Breast.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye sons of verse transmit to fame

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

LIII. Upon a Lady, who finding her Pocket wet, pretended she had broke her Hartshorn Bottle in it.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair as the blushing grape she stands

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

LIV. On Mrs Dashwood.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

A Cure for Poetry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cornus proclaims aloud his wife's a whore

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

LVII.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Whilst maudlin whigs deplore their Cato's fate

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

LV. On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.

Attribution:

By Nich. Rowe, Esq;

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

In church the prayer book and the fan displayed

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

LVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thais her teeth are black and nought

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

LX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ovid is the surest guide

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

Written in the blank Leaf of an Ovid.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phyllis the fairest of love's foes

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

LXI.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Could our first father at his toilsome plough

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

LXII. Adam pos'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tomorrow you will live you always cry

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

LXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy nags the leanest things alive

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

LXIII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Tell me Sileno why you fill

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

LXV. To a Jealous Husband.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe new married looks at men no more

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

LXVI.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

From her own native France as old Alison past

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

LXVII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

LXIX. On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Thomas calls his wife his half

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

LXVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vain the concern which you express

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

LXX. To the Duke De Noailles.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Ridway robbed Duncote of three hundred pound

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

LXXII. On a Robbery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

LXXI. On Giles and Joan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Had she but lived in Cleopatra's age

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

LXXIII. On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On his deathbed poor Lubin lies

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

LXXIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

What a frail thing is beauty says baron le Cras

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

LXXV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Charinus 'twas my hap of late

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

LXXVI. To Charinus, an ugly Woman's Husband.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That artful speck upon her face

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

LXXVII. Upon a Patch on a Lady's Face.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

LXXVIII. From the Greek.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Argyle his praise when Southerne wrote

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

In Behaf of Mr. Southerne. To the Duke of Argyle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe brisk and gay appears

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

LXXX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Loveless married lady Jenny

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

LXXXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed be the princes who have fought

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

LXXXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He who great Jove's artillery aped so well

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

To a Painter, drawing a Lady's Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your mistress that you follow whores still taxeth you

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

LXXXIII. A Self-Accuser.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

LXXXIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Mind but thy preaching T-- translate no further

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

LXXXIX. Advice to a late Translator of Virgil.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh what bosom but must yield

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

LXXXVII. To a Sempstress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go said old Lyce senseless lover go

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

LXXXVI.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

When all the blandishments of life are gone

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

LXXXVIII. On Suicide. From Martial.

Attribution:

By Mr. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Before her husband Lesbia calls me names

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

XCII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Saturn and Sol and Luna chaste

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

XCIII. De Die Martis & Die Veneris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

XCI. On a handsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very covetous and proud.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sylvia methinks you are unfit

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

XC.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come Meg be quick and make the bed

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

XCIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love is begot by fancy bred

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

XCVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lofty arch his high ambition shows

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

XCV. On a high Arch, built over a small Stream by a certain Nobleman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lie Philo untouched on my peaceable shelf

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

XCVII. To a Person who wrote ill, and spake worse against the Author.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Coscus thou sayest my epigrams are long

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

C.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Tadloe walks the streets the paviors cry

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

XCVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

George came to the crown without striking a blow

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

CI.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq.

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Here lives a man who by relation

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

CIII. Written over a Gate.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In marriage are two happy things allowed

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

CII. Apology for Wedlock.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How much are they deceived who vainly strive

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

CIV. Love and Jealousy.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

How old may Phyllis be you ask

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

CVI. Phyllis's Age.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

While faster than his costive brain indites

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

Cacoethes Scribendi.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Gammar Gurton first I knew

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

CIX. Martial, Lib I. Epig. 20.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your homely face Flippanta you disguise

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

CVIII. On a very homely Lady, that patch'd much.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thraso picks quarrels when he's drunk at night

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

CVII.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Whilst in the dark on thy soft hand I hung

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

CXII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Rich Gripe does all his thoughts and cunning bend

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

CXI.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

With what strange raptures would my soul be blessed

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

CX. Written in a Lady's Table Bool.

Attribution:

By William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

This vain thing set up for a man

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

CXVII. Under the Picture of a Beau.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou speakest always ill of me

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

CXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who can hide fire if it be uncovered light

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

CXIII. Love unconcealable.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do they say the goddess Fortune's blind

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

CXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Women to cards may be compared we play

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

CXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe's the wonder of her sex

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

CXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cosmelia's charms inspire my lays

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

CXX. On an antient Lady, who painted.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou saidst that I alone thy heart could move

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

CXVIII. To his false Mistress.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Half of your book is to an index grown

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

CXXIII. On a certain Writer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My love and I for kisses played

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

CXXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You ask dear Will what we disdain

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

CXXII. Mart. Epig. 58. Lib. 1.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You oft Corinna ask me if you're fair

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

CXXI. Imitated from Buchanan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nokes went he thought to Styles's wife to bed

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

CXXV. A Case to the Civilians.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O rare Ben Jonson what a turncoat grown

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

CXXVIII. On Ben. Johnson's Bust, lately set up in Westminster-Abbey, with the Buttons on the wrong Side.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Susanna's fate with pity we behold

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

CXXVII. On the Picture of Susanna.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Pontius wished an edict might be passed

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

CXXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cornutus called his wife both whore and slut

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

CXXXIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No cause nor client fat will Cheverill lease

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

CXXXII. On Cheverill the Lawyer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prithee is not Miss Chloe's a comical case

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

CXXX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The golden hair that Galla wears

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

CXXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To raise a lady's expectations high

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

CXXXI. On the Expulsion of a Member of the House of Commons, for an Attempt to bribe a Member of a Secret Committee.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A man of Wales betwixt St David's day and Easter

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

CXXXV. On a Welshman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe loves only me she vows

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

CXXXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lightfingered Catch to keep his hands in ure

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

CXXXIV. Upon one stealing a Pound of Candles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Did Celia's person and her mind agree

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

CXXXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now shame pursue my meddling sight

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

CXL. On hearing an ugly Woman sing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To love to live just the same meaning bear

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

CXXXVII. For Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To love to perish the same meaning have

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

CXXXVIII. Against Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

M--l a poet why thou art merry

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

CXLII. On a bad Poet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A Welshman coming late into an inn

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

CXLI. On a Welshman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What Crispulus is that in a new gown

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

CXLIII. On Coracine.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A bachelor would have a wife that's wise

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

CXLVI. In uxorem optatam.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A jealous merchant that a sailor met

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

CXLV. Tunc tua res agitur.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since thou wouldst needs bewitched with some ill charms

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

CXLIV. To one marry'd to an old Man.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

A justice walking over the frozen Thames

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

CXLVIII. In stolidum.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let Rufus weep rejoice stand sit or walk

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

CXLVII. Martial, Lib. I. Epig. 69.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Chloe I confess my pain

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

CL. The Cure of Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes every poet is a fool

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

CXLIX.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

If death must come as oft as breath departs

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

CLII. Death made easy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I revolve this evanescent state

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

Written by a Gentleman, looking at himself in a Glass.

Attribution:

by a Gentleman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A chapel of the riding house is made

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

CLIII. On a Riding-house turn'd into a Chapel.

Attribution:

By Mr. Farquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

Fair Ursly in a merry mood

Page No:

p.162-163

Poem Title:

CLVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Olivia's gay but looks devout

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

CLV. The Pious Hypocrite.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am unable yonder beggar cries

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

CLIV. A lame Beggar.

Attribution:

By Dr. Donne.

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Pox on it says time to Thomas Hearne

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

CLVIII. On Mr. Hearne, the great Antiquary.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Chloe came into the room the other day

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

CLVII. A Lover's Anger.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

My heart is proud your chains to wear

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

CLXI. To a Lady of Pleasure.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lady who this resolution took

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

CLIX. A Lady wrote upon a Window some Verses intimating her Design of never marrying; a Gentleman wrote these Lines underneath.

Attribution:

a Gentleman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast been wanton therefore it is meet

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

CLX. To his Quill.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So sets the sun veiled with the shades of night

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

CLXII. On a Lady sleeping with her Face covered.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some say that signior Bononcini

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

CLXIII. The Musical Contest.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

CLXIV. The Lady's Resolve.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I sing the boy who gagged and bound

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

CLXVI. On a dumb Boy, very beautiful, and of great Quickness of Parts.

Attribution:

Written by a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

CLXV. The Gentleman's Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Talk Strephon no more of what's honest or just

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

CLXVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Are the guests of this house still doomed to be cheated

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

CLXVII. Written on the Window of the Deanery-House of St. Patrick in Dublin.

Attribution:

By Dr. Delaney.

Attributed To:

Patrick Delany

First Line:

How shall I shake off cold despair

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

A Lover's Reflection.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let Jove no more his Hebe boast

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

CLXX. Written at Brigadier S--'s over a Bowl of Punch, where Jupiter adn Hebe are painted on the Ceiling.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cinna cries out I am not worth a groat

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

CLXXIII. Martial, Lib. 8. Epig. 19.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To walk a mile a friend to see

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

CLXXII. Martial, Lib 4. Epig. 78.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst Butler needy wretch was still alive

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

CLXXIV.

Attribution:

On setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How capricious were nature and art to poor Nell

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

CLXXV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Accept a miracle instead of wit

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

CLXXVI. Written on a Glass by a Gentleman, who borrow'd the Earl of Chesterfield's Diamond Pencil.

Attribution:

by a Gentleman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We men have many faults

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

CLXXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a dark corner of the house

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

CLXXVII. The Loss.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

John Dryden enemies had three

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou wilt fight if any man call Phoebe whore

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehood well maintain

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXXII. In Chaucer's Style.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Proud with the spoils of royal cully

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXXIII. On the Countess of Dorchester.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

If youth and beauty fade my dear

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

CLXXXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis a strange thing to think on

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

CLXXXIV. Written over a Bishop's Door.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Democritus dear droll revisit earth

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

CLXXXVI.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Helen was just slipped into bed

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

CLXXXVIII. On the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Her eyebrow box one morning lost

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

CLXXXVII. The Eye-Brow.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Married 'tis well a mighty blessing

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

CXC. On a hasty Marriage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Godolphin's easy and unpractised air

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

CXCII. On the Lady Harriot Godolphin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I dreamed that buried in my fellow clay

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

CXCI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The bravest hero and the brightest dame

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

CLXXXIX. On Lady Essex, who was a Dutch Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A certain priest had hoarded up

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

CXCIII. The Robber robb'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Israel's daughters mourned their past offences

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

CXCIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Poor little pretty fluttering thing

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

CXCV. The Emperor Adrian's Verses, to his Soul, imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thy verses are eternal oh my friend

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

CXCVII. On a certain Poet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No no for my virginity

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

CXCVI. A True Maid.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Venus take my votive glass

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

CXCVIII. The Lady's Offering of her Looking Glass to Venus.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

An opera like a pillory may be said

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

CCII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If it be true celestial powers

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

CCI. The Lady's Wish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nigrelio leads a married life

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

CC. On Mr. Cornelius Marten, (a contented Cuckold.)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Philemon with translations so doth fill us

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

CXCIC. On the Translation of Suetonius by Dr. Philemon Holland, who had translated several Authors.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cries Celia to a reverend dean

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

CCIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jack eating rotten cheese did say

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

CCIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Physic each morn is T--t's care

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

CCVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To madness Swift bequeaths his whole estate

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

CCVII. On Dean Swift's building and endowing an Hospital for Lunaticks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cowards fear to die but courage stout

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

CCV. Written by Sir Walter Raleigh, on the Snuff of a Candle, the Night before his Execution.

Attribution:

by Sir Walter Raleigh

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

I've lost my mistress horse and wife

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

CCVIII. On Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's receiving three Letters by the same Post, advising of the Death of his Mistress, his Wife, and his Horse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One Prior and is this all the fame

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

CCIX. On reading the Words, One Prior, in Bishop Burnet's History of his own Time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art fair we know it a maid 'tis true

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

CCXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You beat your pate and fancy wit will come

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

CCX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To curb ambition parsons preach

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

CCXIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Circles are praised not that abound

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

CCXIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

CCXII.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

In all thy humours whether grave or mellow

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

CCXX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kisses are prologues which forerun

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

CCXVII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Treason does never prosper what's the reason

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

CCXVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Deaf giddy helpless left alone

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

CCXIX. Dean Swift on his own Deafness.

Attribution:

Dean Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Of the body in the bread

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

Erasmus's Excuse to Sir Thomas More for detaining his Horse.

Attribution:

Erasmus

Attributed To:

Desiderius Erasmus

First Line:

A bawd a bawd where is this scoundrel poet

Page No:

pp.182-183

Poem Title:

CCXXIV. On a Quarrel between Mr. Fielding and Mrs. Clive, on his intending her the Part of a Bawd, in his Play called the Wedding-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A haughty courtier meeting in the streets

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

CCXXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From flower to flower with eager pains

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

CCXXII. On a Bee, stifled in Honey.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who seeks to please all men each way

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

CCXXIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As nature H----y's clay was blending

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

CCXXVIII. The Pin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Pope though you have I have not the temerity

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

CCXXVI. In Answer to the foregoing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Don't boast prithee Cibber so much of thy state

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

CCXXVII. The Buffoon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Quoth Cibber to Pope though in verse you foreclose

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

CCXXV. On Cibber's Declaration that he would have the last Word with Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Flavia's eyes is every grace

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

CCXXXI. On Miss Eleanor Ambrose, a celebrated Beauty in Dublin.

Attribution:

By the E--l of C--st-r-d.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Never dare draw me without reason shown

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

CCXXIX. Motto for a Sword.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says W-k-n to C-tt-n I thought my lord G--r

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

CCXXX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Flavia's a name a deal too free

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

CCXXXII. Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thanks for this miracle for it is no less

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

CCXXXIII. Grace after Meat; spoken extempore by a Gentleman at the Table of a Miser, who, once in his Life, made a sumptuous Entertainment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever with curious eye has ranged

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

CCXXXIV. The Monkies. To our modern Beaux.

Attribution:

By Mr. M--rr--k.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dan's evil genius in a trice

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

CCXXXV.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

When you with high dutch heeren dine

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

CCXXXIX. Upon this Passage in Scaligeriana

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lesbia forever on me rails

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

CCXXXVIII.

Attribution:

By Dr Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

CCXLI. Susannah, and the Two Elders.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Pope Quin who damns all churches but his own

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

CCXL. On Quin's comparing Garrick to Whitfield, and saying, the People that wer madding after him, would return to the old Church, meaning himself.

Attribution:

By Mr. G--ck.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Famed stream by whose retentive force we're taught

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

CCXLIV. On a silly talkative Lady, at the Hot Well at Bristol.

Attribution:

By the Hon. T. H--y, Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Poor when in youth now worn with feeble age

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Translated from Buchanan. Begining Pauper eram Juvenis, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When you before an image kneeling down

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

CCXLIII. On a Papist's praying to the Statue of a Saint. From Buchanan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One prompt physician like a sculler plies

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

CCXLV. The Advantage of having two Physicians.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My very good lord tis a very hard task

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

CCXLVI. Dean Swift being sent for by the Lord Carteret, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and being made to wait in the Council-Chamber alone, wrote with a Diamond on the Window.

Attribution:

Dean Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Under this hedge in stormy weather

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

CCXLVII. A Marriage Certificate.

Attribution:

By Dean Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

My very good dean there's few who come here

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

My Lord coming soon after into the Room, wrote under it thus:

Attribution:

Lord Carteret

Attributed To:

John Carteret

First Line:

Hence ye deluding subtle painted foes

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

CCL. On Cards.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh cried Arsenia long in wedlock blessed

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

CCXLVIII. Woman's Resolution.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The hermit's solace in his cell

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

CCXLIX. What is Thought?

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Quite worn to the stumps in a piteous condition

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

CCLI. The Petition of Justice Boden's Horse, to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pleasing subject first with care provide

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

CCLII. A Receipt to make an Epigram.

Attribution:

By Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

A monster in a course of vice grown old

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

Post funcra virtus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I dreamed that buried in my fellow clay

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

1. On a Nobleman's Tombstone at Woodford-Wells.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here old John Randal lies

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

7. From a Tomb-Stone in Warwickshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Johnnie Carnegie lies here

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

6. From a Tomb-Stone in Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Take heed o good traveller and do not tread hard

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

3. On a large fat Physician.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Courtiers and heralds by your leave

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

Prior's.

Attribution:

By himself.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Here lies our sovereign lord the king

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

2. On King Charles II.

Attribution:

By Lord Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Beneath in the dust

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

8. On Nell Bachelor, the Pye-Woman at Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies R C believe it who can

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

[10. In Rippon Church-Yard. ('Hic jacet vir, perpendiculariter honestus')] Thus Translated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My sledge and hammer both declined

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

11. On a Black Smith.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who killed Kildare who dared Kildare to kill

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

9. On the Earl of Kildare.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lie I must

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

15. In Wells Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies in a dyke

Page No:

p.196.3

Poem Title:

[14. On Richard Dyke, a Grave-digger. ('Hic jacet in fossa, fossae qui nomen habebat, | Et tumulum multos qui tumulavit, habet')' Translated thus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here ligs mess Andrew Gray

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

16. In Glasgow Church-Yard, in Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Musician and physician eke

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

[12. On John Langton. Musicus & medicus Langton jacet hicce Johannes, | Organa namque loqui fecerat ille quasi')] Thus Englished.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies John Duke of Marlborough

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

13. When the late Dutchess of Marlborough offer'd a considerable Reward to him that should write the best Epitaph on the Duke; Dr. Evans, of Oxford, by Way of Humour, sent her the following Lines.

Attribution:

Dr. Evans, of Oxford,

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Here lies the wife of Master Ford

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

21.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come let us rejoice merry boys at his fall

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

18. On the Parson of the Parish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God works wonders now and then

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

23.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Anne Carter

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

19. On a Collar-maker's Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies John Pye

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

22.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of Sir John Guise

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

17.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old time and Stephen now are even

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

20. On Stephen, the Fidler.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies father Sparges

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

27. On a Miser.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies John Trott by trade a bum

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

29. On a Bailiff.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies old Thomas Freeman

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

31. On one deaf and blind.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Randolph Peter

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

24. On Peter Randolph.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of Thomas Small

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

26.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the collier Jenkin Dashes

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

30.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lie heavy on him earth for he

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

25. On Sir John Vanburgh.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

28. Another.

Attribution:

By Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Death throws me here beneath this stone

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

36. On Sir Tho. Parkins, the great Wrestler.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here Cornlay lies in cold clay clad

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

37.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Dr Evans

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

32.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies John Brown a man of few words

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

38.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies my wife and there let her lie

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

34.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O reader if thou canst read

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

35. On P. P. the famous Parish Clerk.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lord saw good

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

33.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This grave o grief hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

1. On Richard Brooke.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this steane lies our dear child

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

3. In a Church-Yard in Wiltshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Famed father Adams learned to high degree

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

[5. In St. Caecilia's Church at Rome. ('Artibus iste pater famoses in omnibus Adam; | Theologus summus, cardi-que-nalis erat') Which was translated thus

Attribution:

By an English Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a piece of christ a star in dust

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

2. On Anne Green, a Quaker, in Ramsbury.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone lies here

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

4.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alas no more I could survive

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

8.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He died of a quinsy

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

7. On a Dr. of Divinity at Binsy near Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lie three knights grandfather father and son

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

9.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Catherine Anne and Mary Riggs

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[6. In a Church-Yard in Bedfordshire. ('Hic Catherina jacet, jacet Anna, jacetque Maria; | Hic jacet Andreas, qui lapidavit eas.')] Thus English'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hic jacet Tom Shorthose sine tomb sine sheets sine riches

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

11. In St. Alban's Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This was a man who labouring hard did break his neck in twain

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

[10. ('Homo fuit quondam; laborando qui fregit collum: | Ille fregit collum, collum fregitq; suum.')] Thus translated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As the earth the earth doth cover

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

14. On Captain Thomas Stone. At St. Mary's, Rotherhithe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth Humphrey Gosling of London vintner

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

15. At St. John Baptist's, at Westminster.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth Walter Garden come out of the west

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

16. Ibid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here the earthly part of William Benson lies

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

13. On Mr. Benson, a Linen-Draper. At St. Olave's.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever treadeth on this stone

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

18. At St. Dunstan's Stepney.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of Daniel Saul

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

19. Ibid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth Catherine Pettyman

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

22. In St. Bennet's Sherehog.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jesu that suffered bitter passion and pain

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

24. In All-hallows the Less, Thames-Street.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My father and mother and I died all in one year

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

20. At Heddington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our Holt alas has stint his hold

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

23. On Christopher Holt. (All-hallows Staining, Mark-Lane.)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sickness and death shook hands and vowed to kill

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

25. On Sir Thomas Fleetwood, in Lewkner Church. 1625.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Underneath here

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

27.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With diligence and trust most exemplary

Page No:

p.206

Poem Title:

26.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies out little baby Nancy

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

[29. H. S. E. ('Anna filiola Thomae et Mariae Rivers')] Translated thus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here Thomas Saffin lies interred ah why

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

28. At St. Dunstan's, Stepney.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

His painful skillful travels reached as far

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

30. On Mr. Martin Pringe, Merchant. At St. Stephen's, Bristol.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of John a Treen

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

31.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What we have been and what we are

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[32. ('Quod fuit esse, quod est, quod non fuit esse quod esse')] Paraphras'd in English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

William Newbury lies here still

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[33. On a Drawer at the Bell at Edmonton, who lost his Life by taking too much Pilla Cochia, administer'd by the Cook-Maid. ('Hic jacet Newbury Will') Thus English'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies honest William Dawe

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

35.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies old Hare

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

37. On Joseph Hare, a Sexton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth wrapped in clay

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

34. At St. Michael's, Crooked-lane.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I John Bell of Crakehill lies under this stein

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

36. In Topliff Church-Yard in Yorkshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a horse beneath this stone

Page No:

pp.210-211

Poem Title:

38. On a Stumbling Horse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though here my body lies interred

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

On the Left Side.

Attribution:

By D--d G--k, Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The goddess of wit and love

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

On the Right Side.

Attribution:

By D--d G--k, Esq.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Here lies a round woman who thought mighty odd

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

41. (Of By-Words.)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alderman Jones locked up in a box

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

44. On Alderman Jones.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a proof that wit can never be

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

45.On Mrs. Apharra Bhen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the son here lies the mother

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

[47. In a Church-Yard at Marle in France. ('Ci git le Fils, ci git la Mere')] In English thus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of Carthage great I was a stone

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

43. On a Stone in the Wall of Stepney Church.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What I gave I have

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

46. On Thomas Ravenscroft.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell vain world I've known enough of thee

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

51. On a Person unknown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a reverend Givan priest

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

48. On John Pettigrew, Minister at Givan near Glasgow, Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth one born and cried

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

49. On a Person unknown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jesus Christ both god and man

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

50. On Sir -- Jernagan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone lies William Prynne

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

52. On Mr. William Prynne, by Mr. Samuel Butler.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Behold in me the life of man

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

53. On Mr. Richard Middleton, who died at 18 Years of Age.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies my poor wife without bed or blanket

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

55. On a Person unknown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the lord have mercy on her

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

57. On a Person unknown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth Thomas Brown

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

56. On Thomas Brown, at Newport in Bucks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Live to die for die you must

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

58. On Thomas Hearne, in St. Andrew's, London.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

54. On Mr. John Knapton, at Norwich.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Grass smoke a flower a vapour shade a span

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

59. On Francis Breton, in St. Pancras.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Tom Hicks's body

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

61. On Tom Hicks, in Coventry, Warwickshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In this marble casket lies

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

60. On a Child.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone

Page No:

pp.217-219

Poem Title:

62. On Samuel Smith, Ordinary of Newgate.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He lived one hundred and five

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

63. On Stephen Rumbold, at Brightwell in Oxfordshire. Born Feb. 1582.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a maid not full sixteen

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

64. On a Young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Penelope Lady Rich

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p.219

Poem Title:

65. On the Countess of Warwick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of a beauteous maid

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

66. On a very chaste Maid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Byhax the drunkard while he lived would say

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

68. On a Drunkard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies puried under these stones

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p.220

Poem Title:

69. On a Welchman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hic jacet ille qui centies et mille

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

70. On a Couple who often quarrelled.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this stone

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

67. On Mrs. Creswell.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Here lies Jobson the D--'s godson

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

73. On --- Jobson, at Bath, Somersetshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies Rundal Peter

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

74. On Peter Rundal, at Oriel College, Oxon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the author of the apparition

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

75. On Dr. Evans, who wrote a Poem call'd the Apparition.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let earth take earth the devil his sins again

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p.221

Poem Title:

72. On John Beatie at Montrose in Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Today is mine tomorrow yours may be

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

71. On John Stewart in the Chapel-Yard at Inverness, Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come Alecto and lend me thy torch

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

78. On John Skelton, Poet Laureat.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Death came to John

Page No:

pp.222-223

Poem Title:

80. On one nam'd John.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of all fours

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

77. On a Gamester.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lieth one that was born and cried

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

79. From Cambden's Remains, on the Author of the Humourist.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through Christ I'm not inferior

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

76. On Thomas Rymour, Maltman, at Cupar, in Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this silent stone is laid

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

82.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies honest Stephen with Mary his bride

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

81.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bred in the womb of mother earth

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From heaven at first with Lucifer I fell

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

I.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I lived before the flood yet still am young

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Before creating nature willed

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though kings and princes my acquaintance be

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In youth exalted high in air

Page No:

pp.227-228

Poem Title:

VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So capricious am I that if monarchs should offer

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

VII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Begotten and born and dying with noise

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

IX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I with borrowed silver shine

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

VIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From heaven I fall though from earth I begin

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

XI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm up and down and round about

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

XII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is a gate we know full well

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

X.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am jet black as you may see

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

XIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We are little airy creatures

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

XV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All of us in one you'll find

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

XVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ever eating never cloying

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

XIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When on my bosom thy bright eyes

Page No:

pp.233-234

Poem Title:

XVII. Fontinella to Florinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Never speaking still awake

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

XVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Most things by me do rise and fall

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

XIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We are little brethren twain

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

XX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through the close covert of the shady grove

Page No:

pp.235-237

Poem Title:

XXI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Torn from the fruitful spot on which I grew

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

XXII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My size is large my shape's uncouth

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

XXIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By birth I am a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

XXIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Resolve me Chloe what is this

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

XXV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Ah Strephon how can you despise

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

XXVI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Deprived of root and branch and rind

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

XXVII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come hither and behold the fruits

Page No:

pp.244-246

Poem Title:

XXIX. The Gulph of all human Possessions.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Though I alas a prisoner be

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

XXX.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Swift]

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

All ruling tyrant of the earth

Page No:

pp.247-248

Poem Title:

XXXI.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Swift]

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Because I am by nature blind

Page No:

pp.248-249

Poem Title:

XXXII.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Swift]

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

By something formed I nothing am

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

XXXIII. Sent by a young Lady to a young Gentleman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your riddle's meaning if I guess

Page No:

pp.250-251

Poem Title:

XXXIV. The Gentleman's Answer to the preceding Riddle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of twice five brethren in Arabia born

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

XXXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A thing I am esteemed by all

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

XXXVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the Lilliputian throng

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

XXXVII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the womb of the earth

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

XXXIX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sweet lovely graces

Page No:

p.254

Poem Title:

XL.

Attribution:

By Mr. Herbert.

Attributed To:

Mr. Herbert