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The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester [T94656]

DMI number:
265
Aliases
Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
Publication Date:
1756
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T94656
EEBO/ECCO link:
CB127858217
Shelfmark:
BL C.131.b.5
Full Title:
THE | [red]WORKS[/red] | OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE | JOHN | [red]EARL OF ROCHESTER:[/red] | CONTAINING | A GENUINE COLLECTION | OF ALL HIS | [red]POEMS[/red]. | Adorned with Cuts. | CAREFULLY CORRECTED. | [double rule] | MDCCLVI.
Place of Publication:
London
Genres:
Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of erotic verse, and Miscellany dominated by poet
Format:
Duodecimo
Pagination:
pp. [8], [1]-251.
Bibliographic details:
Plates: frontispiece; engraving following pp. 190, 220.
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Contents [3pp]; Memoirs of Rochester (addressed to Mazarin, signed Evremond) pp. [1]-20; Character of Rochester (by Mr. Wolsley) pp. 21-26; Character of Rochester (by Mr. Wood) pp. 26-28; Character of Rochester (by the Rev. Mr. Parsons) pp. 28-29; Character of Rochester (by Dr. Burnet) pp. 29-31; Alexander Bendo's speech pp. 32-42.
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Content/Publication
First Line:
As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay
Page No:
p.43
Poem Title:
On the death of the Earl of Rochester. A Pastoral.
Attribution:
By Mr. Flatman
Attributed To:
Thomas Flatman
First Line:
Mourn mourn ye muses all your loss deplore
Page No:
pp.44-46
Poem Title:
On the death of the Earl of Rochester.
Attribution:
By Mrs. Behn
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
What words what sense what night-piece can express
Page No:
pp.47-49
Poem Title:
On the death of the Earl of Rochester.
Attribution:
By an unknown hand.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Were I who to my cost already am
Page No:
pp.51-58
Poem Title:
A Satire against Man.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Well sir tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes
Page No:
pp.58-62
Poem Title:
Horace's tenth Satire of the first book imitated.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
When Shakespeare Jonson Fletcher ruled the stage
Page No:
pp.63-66
Poem Title:
In defence of Satire.
Attribution:
By Sir Carr Scroope.
Attributed To:
Sir Carr Scrope
First Line:
To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain
Page No:
pp.67-68
Poem Title:
The Earl of Rochester's answer To the foregoing Satire.
Attribution:
The Earl of Rochester's answer
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Must I with patience ever silent sit
Page No:
pp.68-69
Poem Title:
An imitation of the first Satire of Juvenal.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Not Rome in all her splendour could compare
Page No:
pp.69-71
Poem Title:
Satire on the Times.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Preserved by wonder in the oak O Charles
Page No:
pp.72-74
Poem Title:
A Satire Which the King took out of his Pocket.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
In the isle of Great Britain long since famous known
Page No:
pp.74-75
Poem Title:
The Satire on the King, for which he was banished the Court; and turned Mountebank.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head
Page No:
pp.76-82
Poem Title:
Tunbridge-Wells. A Satire.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Have you not seen the raging stormy main
Page No:
p.82
Poem Title:
To all curious Criticks and Admirers of metre.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair
Page No:
pp.83-87
Poem Title:
The happy Night.
Attribution:
The late duke of Buckingham was pleased to own himself the author of this poem.
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
First Line:
Fruition was the question in debate
Page No:
pp.87-89
Poem Title:
The imperfect Injoyment.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Husband thou dull unpitied miscreant
Page No:
pp.89-91
Poem Title:
A Satire against Marriage.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Chaste pious prudent Charles the second
Page No:
pp.92-98
Poem Title:
The Restauration: or, the history of insipids. A Lampoon.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Clarendon had law and sense
Page No:
pp.98-99
Poem Title:
The Young Statesmen: A Satire.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Pride lust ambition and the people's hate
Page No:
pp.100-101
Poem Title:
On The Lord Chancellor Hyde.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
Page No:
pp.101-102
Poem Title:
Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Of a great heroine I mean to tell
Page No:
pp.102-105
Poem Title:
A Panegyric upon Nelly.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand
Page No:
pp.105-107
Poem Title:
The Royal Angler.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Methinks I see you newly risen
Page No:
pp.107-109
Poem Title:
Portsmouth's Looking-Glass.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Let ancients boast no more
Page No:
pp.109-111
Poem Title:
Lais Junior: A Pindaric.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Nothing thou elder brother even to shade
Page No:
pp.111-113
Poem Title:
Upon Nothing.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Much wine had passed with grave discourse
Page No:
pp.113-118
Poem Title:
A Ramble in St. James's Park.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
How Tallboy K- P- S- P- did contend
Page No:
p.119
Poem Title:
The Argument
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Say heaven born muse for only thou can'st tell
Page No:
pp.119-124
Poem Title:
Bath Intrigues.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Thou mighty princess lovely queen of holes
Page No:
pp.124-125
Poem Title:
On The Charms of Hidden Treasure. A Paradox.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Too long the wise commons have been in debate
Page No:
p.126
Poem Title:
On The Women about Town.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Twas when the sable mantle of the night
Page No:
p.127
Poem Title:
A Dream.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Why dost thou shade thy lovely face O why
Page No:
pp.128-130
Poem Title:
To his Mistress.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Tell me abandoned miscreant prithee tell
Page No:
pp.130-131
Poem Title:
To the Author of a Play, called, Sodom.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Between Father Patrick and his highness of late
Page No:
pp.132-133
Poem Title:
His Highness's conversion by father Patrick.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold
Page No:
pp.133-134
Poem Title:
On Rome's pardons.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Farewell false woman know I'll ever be
Page No:
p.134
Poem Title:
On a false Mistress.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
At the sight of my Phillis from every part
Page No:
p.135
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
My dear mistress had a heart
Page No:
p.136
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Room room for a blade of the town
Page No:
pp.136-137
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms
Page No:
p.137
Poem Title:
Spoken extempore to a country clerk after having heard him sing Psalms.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
A knight delights in hardy deeds of arms
Page No:
p.138
Poem Title:
Acrostick.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
By heavens 'twas bravely done
Page No:
p.138
Poem Title:
Spoken extempore, upon receiving a fall at Whitehall-gate, by attempting to kiss the dutchess of Cleveland, as she was stepping out of her chariot.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Tis the Arabian bird alone
Page No:
p.138
Poem Title:
The Encouragement.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Here lies our sovereign lord the king
Page No:
p.139
Poem Title:
The king's Epitaph.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
In all humility we crave
Page No:
p.139
Poem Title:
The Commons Petition to king Charles II.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
The heavens carouse each day a cup
Page No:
pp.139-140
Poem Title:
Anacreontic.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Insulting beauty you misspend
Page No:
pp.140-141
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
In a dark silent shady grove
Page No:
pp.141-142
Poem Title:
Et Caetera. A Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
O that I now could by some chymic art
Page No:
p.141
Poem Title:
The Wish.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
She was so exquisite a whore
Page No:
p.141
Poem Title:
Written under Nelly's picture.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Naked she lay clasped in my longing arms
Page No:
pp.142-144
Poem Title:
The Disappointment.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
One day the amorous Lysander
Page No:
pp.145-150
Poem Title:
The Insensible.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Whilst happy I triumphant stood
Page No:
pp.150-153
Poem Title:
On a Juniper-tree cut down to make Busks.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
What Timon does old age begin to approach
Page No:
pp.153-159
Poem Title:
The Rehearsal. A Satire.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Since the sons of the muses grew numerous and loud
Page No:
pp.159-162
Poem Title:
A session of the Poets.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
My goddess Lydia heavenly fair
Page No:
p.163
Poem Title:
A Lyric. In imitation of Cornelius Gallus.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Sweet hyacinth my life my joy
Page No:
p.164
Poem Title:
Apollo's Grief, for having killed Hyacinth by accident. An imitation by Ovid.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Where is he gone whom I adore
Page No:
pp.164-165
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Woman was made man's sovereignty to own
Page No:
pp.165-167
Poem Title:
Woman's Usurpation.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Have you not in a chimney seen
Page No:
pp.167-168
Poem Title:
The Maidenhead.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
I rise at eleven I dine about two
Page No:
p.167
Poem Title:
The Debauchee.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
How far are they deceived who hope in vain
Page No:
pp.168-169
Poem Title:
An epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet, complaining of his inconstancy.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Madam | If you're deceived it is not by my cheat
Page No:
pp.170-171
Poem Title:
A very heroical epistle in answer to Ephelia.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
Dreaming last night on Mrs Farley
Page No:
pp.172-174
Poem Title:
An epistle from B. to E.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
John Wilmot
First Line:
As crafty harlots use to shrink
Page No:
pp.174-176
Poem Title:
E---'s answer.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name / 'E---' identified as 'Mr. Etherege, afterwards Sir George Etherege' in note on p. 172.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Sir George Etherege
First Line:
If I can guess the devil choke me
Page No:
pp.176-179
Poem Title:
The second epistle from B. to E.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name / 'B.' identified as 'Lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset' in note on p. 172.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
John Wilmot
First Line:
So soft and amorously you write
Page No:
pp.179-182
Poem Title:
E---'s answer.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name / 'E---' identified as 'Mr. Etherege, afterwards Sir George Etherege' in note on p. 172.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Sir George Etherege
First Line:
Tired with the noisome follies of the age
Page No:
pp.182-189
Poem Title:
Rochester's farewell.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole
Page No:
pp.190-192
Poem Title:
The Discovery.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Such a sad tale prepare to hear
Page No:
pp.193-198
Poem Title:
Dildoides.
Attribution:
By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras.
Attributed To:
Samuel Butler
First Line:
When nature once like Nile the -- overflows
Page No:
pp.198-210
Poem Title:
The Delights of Venus. From Meursius.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
In a famous street near Whetstone's Park
Page No:
pp.211-213
Poem Title:
Lady Sandwich's Cabinet. A Ballad. To the Tune of An old man with a bed full of bones.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Worthy Sir | Though weaned from all those scandalous delights
Page No:
pp.213-214
Poem Title:
A Letter To a Friend.
Attribution:
By the Lord Rochester.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
No longer blame those on the banks of Nile
Page No:
pp.215-216
Poem Title:
Three Riddles.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
A negro I but sprung from Northern climes
Page No:
p.216
Poem Title:
II.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
My mother's a man my father a cow
Page No:
pp.216-217
Poem Title:
III.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Was ever mortal man like me
Page No:
pp.217-219
Poem Title:
Lord Rochester against his Whore-Pipe.
Attribution:
Lord Rochester
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
For standing -- we kind nature thank
Page No:
pp.219-220
Poem Title:
An Interlude. The scene, A bed-chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
I love as well as others do
Page No:
p.220
Poem Title:
The mock Song.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Clasped in the arms of her I love
Page No:
pp.221-222
Poem Title:
The Enjoyment.
Attribution:
By the same [i.e. Otway]
Attributed To:
Thomas Otway
First Line:
I did but look and love a while
Page No:
p.221
Poem Title:
The Inchantment.
Attribution:
By Mr. Otway.
Attributed To:
Thomas Otway
First Line:
Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell
Page No:
pp.223-247
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:
Silence coeval with eternity
Page No:
pp.247-249
Poem Title:
On Silence.
Attribution:
By Lord Rochester.
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
First Line:
While in the mall my Celia shone
Page No:
pp.249-250
Poem Title:
The Gnat.
Attribution:
By Aaron Hill, Esq;
Attributed To:
Aaron Hill
First Line:
When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
Page No:
p.251
Poem Title:
Susannah And The Two Elders.
Attribution:
By Mr. Cobb.
Attributed To:
Samuel Cobb