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

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397
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Works of Boileau
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Publication Date:
1711
Volume Number:
2 of 2
ESTC number:
T143904
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW3313330716
Shelfmark:
BL 1065.h.22
Full Title:
THE | WORKS |OF | Monsr.[i]Boileau Despreaux[/i].| [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | CONTAINING | I. LONGINUS’s Treatise of the [i]SUBLIME[/i]. | With Critical Reflections on some Passages out of | [i]Longinus[/i] ; wherein Answer is occasionally made | to some Objections of Monsieur [i]Perrault[/i] against | [i]Homer[/i] and [i]Pindar[/i] : Likewise further Remarks and | Observations by [i]Dacier[/i], [i]Boivin[/i], &c. | II. MISCELLANIES, with a Discourse upon [i]Satire[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL. | MDCCXI.
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Collection of translations/imitations
Format:
Octavo
Pagination:
475pp. [check]
Bibliographic details:
(1st edition); 2 vols. 2nd volume dated 1711. 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 pages (sig. R8v); Index (sig.S1-S8v); Errata (sig. S8v.)
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The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol I] [T143904]
Publication Date:
1712
ESTC No:
T143904
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1 of 2
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Title:
The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol II] [T143903]
Publication Date:
1714
ESTC No:
T143903
Volume:
2 of 3
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Reissue
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Publisher:
E. Sanger
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Absolute (100%)
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'Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL.'
Publisher:
Edmund Curll
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Comments:
'Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL.'
Translated from:
Nicolas Boileau Despréaux
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Absolute (100%)
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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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
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pp.107-116
Poem Title:
Epistle X. To my Book.
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Thou as laborious as thy master kind
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pp.117-125
Poem Title:
Epistle XI. To my Gard'ner.
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Learned sir you're right for all engaged in sin
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pp.126-143
Poem Title:
Epistle XII. To the Abbot Renaudot. On the Love of God.
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First Line:
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.
Attribution:
Made English by Samuel Cobb, M.A. Late of Trinity-College, Cambridge
Attributed To:
Samuel Cobb
First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
Did Perrault the assassin ever give
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p.177
Poem Title:
Epigram. On Monsieur Perrault the Physician.
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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
Clio complained upon a time
Page No:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
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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First Line:
Their vast ambition to dethrone the gods
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p.23
Poem Title:
[no title]
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First Line:
What space a man can from a lofty rock
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p.25
Poem Title:
[no title]
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Hell at the noise of Neptune's fury rose
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p.26
Poem Title:
[no title]
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He proudly mounts on his imperial car
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p.27
Poem Title:
[no title]
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Like Mars amid the battle full of rage
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p.28
Poem Title:
[no title]
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First Line:
Happy who near thee sighs alone for thee
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pp.31-32
Poem Title:
[no title]
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First Line:
Oh prodigy oh rage incredible
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p.33
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[no title]
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As when we view the waves by tempests swollen
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p.33
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[no title]
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Hold cruel mother drive the furies hence
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p.40
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[no title]
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See that thou art not born by too much heat
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p.41
Poem Title:
[no title]
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[no title]
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Seven stars thou then before thee wilt espy
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p.42
Poem Title:
[no title]
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On a black buckler these remorseless chiefs
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p.43
Poem Title:
[no title]
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We passed at thy command with hasty steps
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p.51
Poem Title:
[no title]
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Cursed Hymen I from thee my life received
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p.56
Poem Title:
[no title]
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To see them of such noble ardor full
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p.58
Poem Title:
[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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[no title]
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Thou the vile minister of those who long
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p.61
Poem Title:
[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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[no title]
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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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[no title]
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First Line:
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
Poem Title:
[no title]
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You choose so well you say your future wife
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pp.186-187
Poem Title:
[no title]
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First Line:
Suppose her virtue may this shock endure
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pp.188-189
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[no title]
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First Line:
But marriage is a yoke the better still
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p.193
Poem Title:
[no title]
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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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[no title]
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Richelieu in vain the famous Cid decried
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p.200
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[no title]
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Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great
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p.252
Poem Title:
[no title]
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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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[no title]
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