The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol II] [T143903]

DMI number:

1468

Aliases

Works of Boileau

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1714

Volume Number:

2 of 3

ESTC number:

T143903

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB131709785

Shelfmark:

BL 1065 h.25

Full Title:

THE | WORKS | Of Monsieur | BOILEAU | DESPREAUX. | [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E. CURLL, at the [i]Dial[/i] and [i]Bible[/i] | against St. [i]Dunstan[/i]'s Church in [i]Fleet-Street[/i]. MDCCXIV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Octavo

Price:

15 s. [for all 3 volumes: see vol. I]

Bibliographic details:

From ESTC: 'A reissue of the edition of 1711-13 with cancel titlepages.' Sigs. m*-[?m*2v?], containing 'An Ode, Written in the Year, 1656. On a Report, That Cromwell and the English were going to make War upon France,' and ending with a blank page, have been inserted between sig. l8v (p.168) and sig. mr. (p.169). SEPARATE TITLE PAGE: A | TREATISE | OF THE | SUBLIME. | [rule] | [i]Translated from the[/i] Greek [i]of[/i] LONGINUS. | [rule] | WITH | Critical REFLECTIONS, REMARKS, and | OBSERVATIONS, | [i]By[/i] M. BOILEAU, M. DACIER, [i]and[/i] M. BOIVIN. | [rule] | [i]The Muses sure[/i] LONGINUS [i]did inspire, | And blest their Critic with a Poet's Fire. | An ardent Judge, that Zealous in his Trust, | With Warmth gives Sentence, yet is always Just[/i]; | [i]Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws, | And is himself that great[/i] SUBLIME [i]he draws.[/i] | Essay on Criticism. | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year, MDCCXII. HALF-TITLES p. 103: [rule] | [i]NEW[/i] | EPISTLES. | [rule] p. 145: [rule] | ODES, | EPIGRAMS, | AND OTHER | MISCELLANIES. | [rule] p.236: [rule] | SOME | Genuine Pieces | Written by | Monsr. [i]BOILEAU[/i] | Never yet Printed in any Edition of his | WORKS. | [rule]

Comments:

PAGINATION: [2], 1-168, [4], 169-189, [3], 1-267, [17] (pp.243-251 and p.261 mispaginated 143-151 and 161 respectively.) PLATES: Frontispiece (unsigned). CONTENTS: Second section of this volume, with a separate title page (dated 1712), contains prose (pp.1-267). Verse fragments of four lines or longer in this section have been recorded.

Other matter:

END MATTER: Contents [1p.]; Index [16pp.].

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Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol II] [T143904]

Publication Date:

1711

ESTC No:

T143904

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol I] [T143903]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T143903

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol III] [T143903]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T143903

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

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Related People

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Young valiant hero thou whose sense sublime

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pp.1-11

Poem Title:

A Discourse To The King.

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In vain great sir keen satire I disown

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pp.11-24

Poem Title:

Epistle I. To the King.

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For what should I my sleeping muse awake

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pp.25-28

Poem Title:

Epistle II. To The Abbot Des Roches.

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Yes Arnauld thou dost easily perceive

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pp.29-36

Poem Title:

Epistle III. To Monsieur Arnauld. Doctor of the Sorbonne.

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In vain to praise thee is my muse prepared

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pp.37-48

Poem Title:

Epistle IV. To the King.

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Born for a court and versed in every art

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pp.49-60

Poem Title:

Epistle V. To Monsieur De Guilleragues, Secretary of the Cabinet.

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Yes yes Lamoignon with the town I'm tired

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pp.61-74

Poem Title:

Epistle VI. To Monsieur De Lamoignon, Attorney-General.

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Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire

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pp.75-82

Poem Title:

Epistle VII. To Monsieur Racine.

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Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

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pp.83-90

Poem Title:

Epistle VIII. To the King.

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Cowper how foolish would that author be

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pp.91-102

Poem Title:

Epistle IX. To The Marquis De Seignelai. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor Cowper.

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In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain

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pp.107-116

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Epistle X. To my Book.

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Thou as laborious as thy master kind

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pp.117-125

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Epistle XI. To my Gard'ner.

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Learned sir you're right for all engaged in sin

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p.126-143

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Epistle XII. To The Abbot Renaudot. On The Love of God.

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What learned fury in my breast does reign

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pp.157-168

Poem Title:

An Ode On the Taking of Namur, Anno 1692.

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Made English By Samuel Cobb, M. A. Late of Trinity-College, Cambridge.

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Samuel Cobb

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What fury what distraction blinds

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sigs.m*-[?m*2v?]

Poem Title:

An Ode, Written in the Year, 1656. On a Report, That Cromwell and the English were going to make War upon France.

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A poor old wretch beneath the weight

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pp.169-170

Poem Title:

A Fable out of Aesop. The Old Man and Death.

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In want and what's a greater curse

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p.170

Poem Title:

Epigram. The Grateful Debtor.

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Behold in peace and war a monarch great

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p.171

Poem Title:

Verses to be put under the King's Busto, (made by the Famous Statuary M. Girardon,) the Year the Germans took Belgrade.

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The holy maid whom in this piece you view

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p.172

Poem Title:

Verses to be put under Mademoiselle de Lamoignon's Picture.

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How doubly sweet is Baville's air

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pp.173-174

Poem Title:

A Catch made at Baville, when Father Bourdaloue was there.

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Ye partisans of Epicurus tribe

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p.174

Poem Title:

Verses to be put before an Allegorical Romance, wherein the whole Morality of the Stoics was explain'd.

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Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse

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pp.175-176

Poem Title:

Epigram. To Messieurs Pradon and Bonnecorse, who both at the same time publish'd a Book of Scandal against me.

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Yes I have said an Aesculapian sot

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p.175

Poem Title:

Epigram. To a Physician.

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Three emperors as 'tis in story told

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p.176

Poem Title:

Epigram. To Monsieur Perrault. On his Books against the Ancients.

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Did Perrault the assassin ever give

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p.177

Poem Title:

Epigram. On Monsieur Perrault the Physician.

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How comes it Perrault I would gladly know

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p.177

Poem Title:

Another on the Same Subject.

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Clio complained upon a time

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pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Epigram. Occasion'd by some Verses that were read in the Academy against Homer and Virgil.

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With young Orante from the cradle bred

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pp.178-179

Poem Title:

Sonnet, upon a Cousin of mine that died very young, in the Hands of a Quack.

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Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest

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p.180

Poem Title:

Epigram. Upon a Paultry Satire which the Abbot Cotin handed about under my Name.

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This traveller from Paris used to run

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p.181

Poem Title:

Verses to be put under the Picture of Monsieur Tavernier, the famous Traveller.

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Why so much pains that like a lasting brand

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p.181

Poem Title:

Another against the same.

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Let the self lover these strict lessons learn

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p.182

Poem Title:

Verses to put under the Picture of Monsieur de la Bruyere, before his Book, entitul'd, The Manners of the Age. The Author Speaks.

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With knowledge wit and eloquence adorned

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p.182

Poem Title:

Verses to be put under the Picture of the late Monsieur Hamon, Physician of Port-Royal.

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In vain a thousand jealous wits

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pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Stanzas. To Monsieur Moliere, upon his Comedy, call'd, L' Ecole de Femmes, or, The School of Women, which several carpt at.

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My friend Bilain as yesterday

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p.185

Poem Title:

Another.

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While in his double elbow chair

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p.185

Poem Title:

Epigram. Against an Atheist.

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Climene something has perplexed me

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p.186

Poem Title:

Epigram. To Climene.

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First Line:

Hail king of horses noble Rosinante

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p.186

Poem Title:

A Tetrastic. On the Picture of Don Quixote's Horse Rosinante.

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While the fierce beadle's brat does loudly bawl

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p.187

Poem Title:

Upon a Young Lawyer, the Son of a Country Beadle.

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My friend Marullus I'm uneasy

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p.188

Poem Title:

On Marullus banter'd formerly in Phaleucian Verses.

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Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

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p.189

Poem Title:

Verses in Chapelain's Style, to be put at the end of his Poem of the Maid (of Orleans).

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Their vast ambition to dethrone the gods

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p.23

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What space a man can from a lofty rock

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p.25

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Hell at the noise of Neptune's fury rose

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p.26

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He proudly mounts on his imperial car

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p.27

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Like Mars amid the battle full of rage

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p.28

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Happy who near thee sighs alone for thee

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pp.31-32

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Oh prodigy oh rage incredible

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p.33

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As when we view the waves by tempests swollen

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p.33

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Hold cruel mother drive the furies hence

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p.40

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See that thou art not born by too much heat

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p.41

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Seven stars thou then before thee wilt espy

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p.42

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[no title]

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On a black buckler these remorseless chiefs

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p.43

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[no title]

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We passed at thy command with hasty steps

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p.51

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[no title]

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Cursed Hymen I from thee my life received

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p.56

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[no title]

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To see them of such noble ardor full

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p.58

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[no title]

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Hector who saw them scattered on the shore

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pp.59-60

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Thou the vile minister of those who long

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p.61

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[no title]

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At the two ends of her two sleeves we see

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p.98; p.199

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None has so nice a way as he to teach

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pp.107-108

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The poets' wars at Paris cease

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p.170

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[no title]

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To this come all the doctor's pious cares

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p.184

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You choose so well you say your future wife

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pp.186-187

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Suppose her virtue may this shock endure

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pp.188-189

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But marriage is a yoke the better still

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p.193

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Heaven knows the weakness of his roving mind

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p.194

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[no title]

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Some may say I'm in the wrong to blame

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p.198

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Richelieu in vain the famous Cid decried

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p.200

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Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great

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p.252

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Made English by Mr. Littlebury (p.237)

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Isaac Littlebury

First Line:

Now when grey time in his impartial course

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p.161 [i.e. 261]

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