The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol II] [T94657]

DMI number:

262

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1718

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T94657

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116576459

Shelfmark:

BL C.131.b.2

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | By the EARL of | [i]ROSCOMON,&c[/i]. | WITH | Some MEMOIRS of his LIFE. | [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year M.DCC.XVIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

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

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

5 s.

Pagination:

pp. [i]-x, 1-192, 197- [7].

Bibliographic details:

Dorset's poems have separate title page p. [23]. The Female Reign (p. 141) and An Essay on Poetry (p. 159) have separate title pages. The poem 'The Discovery' has been removed from this volume, though it is listed in the contents and though there is an engraving illustrating said poem; vol. 2 proper ends on p.192. pp.193-196 (or sigs. I6-I7v) have been removed. The copy at the Sorbonne may be intact.

Comments:

PLATES: Frontispiece signed by Vandergucht. Usnigned engraving titled 'The Discovery. Vol. II. The Cabinet of Love' facing p. 192 Contents: Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Roscommon (signed 'G.S.') pp. iii-ix, list of genuine works p. x, Dryden's character of Dorset's poems pp. 25-26. Miscellany is split into three parts: (1) Roscommon's poems (pp. 1-21) (2) 'Poems by the Earl of Dorset' (pp. 27-64). (3) 'Miscellany Poems By Several Hands' (pp. 65-192) (4) The Cabinet of Love (pp. [193]-223 ATTRIBUTIONS: works in the Roscommon section have been described as 'Collected under Roscommon's name; works in the Dorset section have been described as 'Collected under Dorset's name'.

Other matter:

End matter: Contents of the Earl of Rochester's Works pp. [3]; Contents of the Second Volume pp. [4].

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Engraver:

Gerard Vandergucht

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Frontispiece signed 'M. V.dr. Gucht Scul.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

From deepest dungeons of eternal night

Page No:

pp.5-7

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Shame of my life disturber of my tomb

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

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:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

Song, 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 art secure

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

On The Death Of A Lady's Lap-Dog.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay

Page No:

pp.13-15

Poem Title:

Ode Upon Solitude.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

To Orinda. In 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.18-21

Poem Title:

On The Day of Judgment.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. 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.28

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, A Semstress In The New Exchange.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes

Page No:

pp.30-46

Poem Title:

A Faithful Catalogue Of our most Eminent Ninnies.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Dorset, In the Year 1686.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Come on ye critics find one fault who dare

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honour, upon his Incomparable Incomprehensible Poem.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Tarugo gave us wonder and delight

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

To Sir Thomas St. Serfe; on the Printing his Play call'd, Tarugo's Wiles.

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 to Tartuffe.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Epilogue upon the Reviving of Ben. Johnson's Play call'd, 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.56-57

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:

p.58

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.59-60

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

To all you ladies now at land

Page No:

pp.61-64

Poem Title:

Song, Written at Sea in the first Dutch War.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.65-76

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.77

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.78-79

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.80-107

Poem Title:

The Miller's Tale, From Chaucer. Inscrib'd to N. Rowe, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.108-115

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Jonathan Swift, D. D.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Tway mice full blithe and amicable

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

Erle Robert's Mice. A Tale. In Imitation of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

Susannah And The two Elders.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Prior]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

The Same. Attempted in a Modern Stile.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Studious the busy moments to deceive

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

To His Friends. From the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Dear Dick however it comes into his head

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

Horace Lib. I. Epist. IX...To the Rt. Hon. Robert Harley, Esq;

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Prior]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

Song To his Mistress.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Prior]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When crowding folks with strange ill faces

Page No:

pp.126-129

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Sir Fleetwood Sheppard.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Prior]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Long our divided state

Page No:

pp.130-134

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Queen Mary.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Devonshire.

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

Cambray you set when heavenly love you write

Page No:

pp.135-140

Poem Title:

An Allusion To the Bishop of Cambray's Supplement of Homer. Written in the Year 1707.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Devonshire]

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

What can the British senate give

Page No:

pp.145-158

Poem Title:

The Female Reign; An Ode. Attempted in the Style of Pindar.

Attribution:

S. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Here the young muse instructed how to sing

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

On the following Essay

Attribution:

By Mr. Welsted.

Attributed To:

Leonard Welsted

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.161-174

Poem Title:

An Essay On Poetry.

Attribution:

By his Grace, John, Duke of Buckinghamshire &c.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.175-178

Poem Title:

Horace Lib. III. Ode 3. Imitated.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile

Page No:

pp.179-182

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib. IV. Ode 5. Imitated. Address'd 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:

When weeping majesty through clouds appears

Page No:

pp.183-188

Poem Title:

To The Queen, On The Death of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark.

Attribution:

By Joseph Trapp, M. A.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom

Page No:

pp.189-192

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. Translated from the Latin of Bp. Smalridge.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such a sad tale prepare to hear

Page No:

pp.197-203

Poem Title:

Dildoides. ... Occasion'd by the 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.204-217

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.218-220

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.221

Poem Title:

The Mock Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

Page No:

pp.222-223

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed