The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]

DMI number:

227

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1721

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T152378

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW117303221

Shelfmark:

BOD Douce P 791

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | [i]Several Occasions[/i], | By the EARLS of | ROSCOMMON, | AND | DORSET, | And the DUKES of | Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &[i]c[/i]. | [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed in theYear MDCCXXI.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

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

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[2], iii-x, 1-200, [6] pp.

Bibliographic details:

Engraving of Dorset facing title page. Separate title page for Dorset section p. 19: POEMS | BY THE | Earl of [i]DORSET[/i] Separate title page for Cobb's Female Reign p. 139; Buckingham's Essay on Poetry p. 157. BOD Douce P 791 has bookplate with coat of arms of 'Francis Douce'; name of 'Thomas Conway' written on first page of contents pages; engraving removed from another book [Spanish?] inserted at close of volume.

Comments:

Contents: (1) Poems By The Earl of Roscommon pp. 1-18 (2) Poems by the Earl of Dorset pp. 19-61 (3) Miscellany Poems By several Hands, pp. 62-200.

Other matter:

Memoirs of Roscommon (in a letter to a friend, signed 'G.S.') pp. iii-ix; List of Roscommon's 'Genuine Works' p. x. Dryden's character of Dorset pp. 21-23; list of contents to both volumes at close of second volume.

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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:

pp.3-4

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:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.13-14

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.15-18

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.24-25

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.25

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.26

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.27-43

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.44-45

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.46-47

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.48-49

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.50-52

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.53-54

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.55

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.56-57

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.58-61

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.62-73

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.74

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.75-76

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.77-104

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.105-112

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.113-115

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.116

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.117

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.118-119

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.120-121

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib. I. Epist. IX.... To the Right 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.122

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.123-126

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.127-131

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.132-137

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.143-156

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

S. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Here the young muse instructed how to sing

Page No:

p.158

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.159-172

Poem Title:

An Essay On Poetry.

Attribution:

By John Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.173-176

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.177-180

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.181-186

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.187-190

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:

By Mr. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Was ever mortal man like me

Page No:

pp.191-193

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.194

Poem Title:

The Mock Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

An Interlude.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Give me great God said I a little farm

Page No:

pp.197-200

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By a Lady of Quality

Attributed To:

Not attributed