The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol II] [T95240]

DMI number:

168

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1739

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T95240

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113404050

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 149 v.1-2 BOD Dunston B 2037 (pp. 168-216) Checked against BOD Vet A4 f. 165 v.1-2.

Full Title:

POEMS | By the EARLS of | [i]ROSCOMON[/i] | AND | DORSET; | The DUKES of | DEVONSHIRE, | BUCKINGHAM, [i]&c[/i]. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, M.DCC.XXXIX.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[2] iii-vi; [1]-216 pp. (69 mispaginated as 79)

Bibliographic details:

BOD Harding C 149 v.1-2 is incomplete, ending at p. 168. BOD Dunston B 2037 has been used to enter details for pp. 169-216. This has been checked against BOD Vet A4 f. 165 v.1-2, which itself has pp. 191-194 197-198 missing. Plates: Frontispiece and facing p. 179. The Female Reign and The Cabinet of Love have separate title pages.

Comments:

Contents: Miscellany is split into sections: (1) Poems by the Earl of Roscomon, pp. 15-27 (2) Poems by the Earl of Dorset, pp. 30-61 (3) Miscellaneous Poems pp. 62-177 (4) The Cabinet of Love pp. 178-201 (has separate title page p. 178 facing engraved frontispiece; engraving of 'The Discovery' facing p.179) (5) Miscellaneous Poems pp. 202-216. ATTRIBUTIONS: works in sections devoted to Roscommon and Dorset have respectively been described as 'Collected under Roscommon's name' and 'Collected under Dorset's name'.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: The contents pp.iii-vi; Memoirs of Roscommon (in a letter to a friend from George Sewell) pp. [1]-6; Dryden's Character of Roscommon pp.7-8; Postscript pp.9-14. Dryden's Character of Dorset's poems pp.28-29

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First Line:

The wit of Greece the gravity of Rome

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Mr. Dryden's Character of the Earl of Roscomon.

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Dear happy groves and you the dark retreat

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

The Scene of Care Selve Beate, in Pastor Fido, Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

From deepest dungeons of eternal night

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New one appointed to meet at Oxford, 1681.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Shame of my life disturber of my tomb

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

The Speech of Tom Ross's Ghost, to his Pupil the Duke of Monmouth.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Winter thy cruelty extend

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

Stanzas on a Young Lady who sung finely; but, was afraid of a Cold.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Thou happy creature are secure

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Lady's Lap-dog.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ode 22.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The day of wrath that dreadful day

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

On the Last Judgment.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Proud with the spoils of royal cully

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Cursed be those dull unpointed doggrel rhymes

Page No:

pp.32-47

Poem Title:

A Faithful Catalogue of our most Eminent Ninnies.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Dorset in the Year 1683.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New-Exchange.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Come on ye critics find one fault who dare

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honour, on his Incomparable Incomprehensible Poems.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Tarugo gave us wonder and delight

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

To Sir Thomas St. Serfe, on his Play called Tarugo's Wiles: Or, The Coffee-House. A Comedy. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, 1668.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Many have been the vain attempts of wit

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Epilogue spoken by Tartuffe.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp.52-54

Poem Title:

Epilogue on the Revival of Ben Johnson's Play called, Every Man in his Humour.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

At noon in a sunshiny day

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Knotting.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

A Song to Chloris, from the Blind Archer.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

A Song on Black Bess.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

To all you ladies now at land

Page No:

pp.58-61

Poem Title:

Song. Written at Sea, in the first Dutch-War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.62-72

Poem Title:

Dryden's Satire to his Muse.

Attribution:

Written by the Lord Somers

Attributed To:

John Somers

First Line:

I did but look and love a while

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

The Inchantment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

The Enjoyment.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Otway]

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell

Page No:

pp.76-101

Poem Title:

The Miller's Tale from Chaucer. Inscribed to N. Rowe, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Samuel Cobb, Late of Trinity College in Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.102-108

Poem Title:

Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from the 8th Book of Ovid.

Attribution:

By Jonathan Swift, D. D.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Long our divided state

Page No:

pp.108-111

Poem Title:

On the Death of Queen Mary.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Devonshire, 1694.

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

Cambray you set when heavenly love you write

Page No:

pp.112-117

Poem Title:

...Allusion to the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus. Written in the Year 1707.

Attribution:

The Duke of Devonshire's

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

What can the British senate give

Page No:

pp.122-134

Poem Title:

The Female Reign; an Ode.

Attribution:

S. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.134-146

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

When weeping majesty through clouds appears

Page No:

pp.147-151

Poem Title:

To the Queen, on the Death of His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, 1708.

Attribution:

By Joseph Trapp, D. D.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom

Page No:

pp.152-154

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Death of our Late Most Gracious Sovereign Queen Anne; And the Accession of His Most Excellent Majesty King George, 1714. Translated from the Latin of Bishop Smalridge.

Attribution:

By Mr. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Slow rising night had her black flag unfurled

Page No:

pp.155-158

Poem Title:

The Dream. Occasioned by the Death of Q. Anne.

Attribution:

By Aaron Hill, Esq;

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Twas one may morning when the clouds undrawn

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

The Wedding-Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

While in the mall my Celia shone

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

The Gnat.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

Susannah and the Two Elders. An Imitation of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

The Same Attempted in a Modern Stile.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

The modest stone what few vain marbles can

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Fenton, 1730.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Justly to name the better cause were hard

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Mr. Rowe

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

The partial gods espoused the victor's side

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan. Victrix Caua Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Mr. Campbell

Attributed To:

Mr. Campbell

First Line:

Heaven meanly with the conqueror did comply

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The gods and Cato did in this divide

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

The Gods espoused and crowned the victor's side

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Dr. Lockhart

Attributed To:

Dr. Lockhart

First Line:

Give me great God said I a little farm

Page No:

pp.167-170

Poem Title:

The Prospect. Written in the Chiosk at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1717.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.171-174

Poem Title:

Horace. Book III. Ode III. Imitated.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile

Page No:

pp.175-177

Poem Title:

Horace. Book IV. Ode V. Imitated. Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, To whom it is dedicated in the Original.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole

Page No:

pp.179-181

Poem Title:

The Discovery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such a sad tale prepare to hear

Page No:

pp.182-188

Poem Title:

Dildoides. ... Occasioned by a Burning a Hogshead of those Commodities at Stocks-Market, in the Year 1672, pursuant to an Act of Parliament then made for the prohibiting of French Goods.

Attribution:

By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

When nature once like Nile the -- overflows

Page No:

pp.189-201

Poem Title:

The Delights of Venus. Translated from Meursius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Was ever mortal man like me

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

Lord Rochester against his Whore-Pipe.

Attribution:

Lord Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

I love as well as others do

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

The Mock Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

An Interlude. Actus I. Scena I. The Scene, A Bed-Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O all ye nymphs in lawless love's disport

Page No:

pp.207-212

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick Upon Cundums.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parson these things in thy possessing

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

The Happy Life of a Country Parson.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Silence coeval with eternity

Page No:

pp.214-216

Poem Title:

On Silence.

Attribution:

By Lord Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

On a Lady singing to her Lute.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller