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A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [different setting than ESTC N19399] [ESTC T151030] [ECCO]

DMI number:
982
Publication Date:
1756
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T151030
EEBO/ECCO link:
CB126123785
Shelfmark:
ECCO BOD
Full Title:
A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | By the late | Mr. ALEXANDER PENNECUIK, Gent. | and OTHERS. | [epigraph] | EDINBURGH, | Printed for JAMES REID Bookseller in LEITH. | M DCC LVI.
Epigraph:
Of all the ways that wisest men could find, | To mend the age, and mortify mankind; | Satyr well wrote has most successful prov'd, | And cures, because the remedy is lov'd. | E. of Rosc
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh
Genres:
Collection of Scottish verse and Collection includes verse in other languages
Format:
Duodecimo
Comments:
CONTENTS: Latin verse pp.150-156.
Other matter:
End matter: List of books, plays, poems sold by James Reid pp.157-158.
Related Miscellanies
Title:
A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [reissue of ESTC N19399] [ESTC T117061]
Publication Date:
1787
ESTC No:
T117061
Volume:
1 of 1
Relationship:
Another Edition of
Comments:
Related People
Author:
James Reid
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
First Line:
The powers above on fair Britannia smile
Page No:
pp.3-9
Poem Title:
Scots Poems, &c. The Edinburgh Cuckolds.
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First Line:
On a winters night my gran'am spinning
Page No:
pp.9-16
Poem Title:
Merry Tales For The lang Nights of Winter. In Dialogues betwixt the Tinklarian Doctor and his Grandam, &c.
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First Line:
The authors of romances and novels
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pp.16-20
Poem Title:
The Fair Maid of Dumblane.
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First Line:
A furlong or so from bonny Dumblain
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pp.20-23
Poem Title:
A Song to the Tune of Morning O Geberland
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First Line:
Travelling of late in fogs and through thick mist
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pp.23-26
Poem Title:
The Marriage betwixt Scrape, Monarch of the Maunders, and Blubberlips Queen of the Gypsies
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First Line:
Cast our caps and care away
Page No:
pp.26-27
Poem Title:
Beggars Song, out of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
Attribution:
Beaumont and Fletcher
Attributed To:
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
First Line:
Bless your worships throw us a penny
Page No:
p.27
Poem Title:
The Begging Cant
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First Line:
Here in peace and love we dwell
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pp.27-28
Poem Title:
The Song
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First Line:
Beauty is justly termed a divine ray
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pp.28-30
Poem Title:
An Amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell, to Eleonora, a Lady Nun.
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First Line:
He did not live upon the earth
Page No:
pp.31-32
Poem Title:
Epitaph on George Paterson, who hewed out the subterranean Caves at Gilmerton.
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First Line:
Stop passenger until my life you read
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p.32
Poem Title:
Epitaph on Marjory Scot of Dunkeld.
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First Line:
Upon the earth thrives villainy and woe
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p.32
Poem Title:
Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton.
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First Line:
Here lies a reverend Givan priest
Page No:
p.33
Poem Title:
On John Pattigrew Minister at Givan.
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First Line:
Here lies interred beside a witch
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p.33
Poem Title:
Lady Shaw's Epitaph. In Greenock Church-yard.
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First Line:
Here lyes Mess Andrew Gray
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p.33
Poem Title:
In Glasgow church-yard.
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First Line:
I John Bell smith lies under this stain
Page No:
p.33
Poem Title:
On John Bell.
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First Line:
Here lies More and no more than he
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p.34
Poem Title:
On Mr William More.
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First Line:
My sledge and hammer both declined
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p.34
Poem Title:
On a Black-Smith.
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First Line:
Reader bid every taylor leave his house
Page No:
p.34
Poem Title:
On George Button Taylor.
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First Line:
Through Christ I'm not inferior
Page No:
p.34
Poem Title:
On Thomas Rymour Maltman in Coupar.
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First Line:
Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney
Page No:
p.35
Poem Title:
On George Faichney.
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First Line:
Edinburgh may say oh hon
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pp.35-37
Poem Title:
On William Lithgow Writer in Edinburgh.
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First Line:
Here lies a lady who if not belied
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pp.37-38
Poem Title:
On a Lady.
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First Line:
Kind France gave me my birth and tender life
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p.38
Poem Title:
On Nicol Vilant at Torphichen.
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First Line:
Here old Sarum lies
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pp.38-39
Poem Title:
On Bishop Burnet.
Attribution:
Tho.Brown.
Attributed To:
Thomas Brown
First Line:
Beneath this stone here lies a man
Page No:
p.39
Poem Title:
On a Dwarf at Kilsyth.
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First Line:
Here lies Boatman West
Page No:
p.39
Poem Title:
On West the Boatman.
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First Line:
Here lies entombed a married man's great woe
Page No:
pp.39-40
Poem Title:
On a Scold.
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First Line:
Let earth take earth the devil his sins again
Page No:
p.39
Poem Title:
On Janet Beatie at Montrose.
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First Line:
He of drumcarro tenant was
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p.40
Poem Title:
On John Simpson in St. Andrews
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First Line:
Here lies interred our good old auntie
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p.40
Poem Title:
On One Unknown.
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First Line:
Here lies John Smith
Page No:
p.40
Poem Title:
On John Smith
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First Line:
Here lies old John Hildibroad
Page No:
p.40
Poem Title:
On a Tomb-stone in Dundee
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First Line:
Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen
Page No:
p.41
Poem Title:
On an Old Woman
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First Line:
Here lies John Davidson
Page No:
p.41
Poem Title:
John Davidson in Aberdeen
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First Line:
Here lies John Spier
Page No:
p.41
Poem Title:
On John Spier
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First Line:
Here lies the corpse of Laird M'Near
Page No:
p.41
Poem Title:
On Laird M'Near
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First Line:
Prison is a house of care
Page No:
pp.41-42
Poem Title:
The Character of a Prison
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First Line:
That day when Meg fair taste got
Page No:
pp.42-51
Poem Title:
The Merry Wives of Musselburgh's Welcome to Meg Dickson
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First Line:
The judges me condemned have
Page No:
pp.51-52
Poem Title:
Epilogue to Meg Dickson's Loup from the Ladder
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First Line:
From ancient nest did spring a droll muir-cock
Page No:
p,52
Poem Title:
A Tale of a Muir-Cock
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First Line:
Judges of old amongst the feathered flock
Page No:
p.53
Poem Title:
The Trial of the Muir-Cock
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First Line:
Muir-cock you stand accused of being a cheat
Page No:
pp.53-54
Poem Title:
Indictment
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First Line:
Muir-cock for this high aggravated crime
Page No:
p.54
Poem Title:
The Sentence
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First Line:
Three times the carlin grained and rifted
Page No:
pp.54-57
Poem Title:
Lukcy Spence's Last Advice
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First Line:
Dole dole dear cummers dismal news
Page No:
pp.57-58
Poem Title:
The Wife's Tears
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First Line:
A gauger never can be called a fool
Page No:
pp.58-59
Poem Title:
The Character of a Gauger
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First Line:
O cano'gate poor elritch hole
Page No:
pp.59-61
Poem Title:
Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May, 1717.
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First Line:
Beneath this sod
Page No:
p.61
Poem Title:
Epitaph.
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First Line:
Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race
Page No:
pp.61-63
Poem Title:
The Character of a Vintner
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First Line:
Auld reeky mourn in sable hue
Page No:
pp.63-65
Poem Title:
Elegy on Maggy Johnston, who died anno 1711.
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First Line:
A whipman is the greatest prince in nature
Page No:
pp.65-66
Poem Title:
The Character of a Whipman
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First Line:
O rare Maggy Johnston
Page No:
p.65
Poem Title:
Epitaph
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First Line:
Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun
Page No:
p.66
Poem Title:
Inscription in the Carters Hall in Leith
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First Line:
I warn you a' to greet and drone
Page No:
pp.66-68
Poem Title:
Elegy on John Couper, Kirk-treasurer's Man, Anno 1714.
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First Line:
A zealous brother of the canting crew
Page No:
pp.68-70
Poem Title:
The Zealous Constable
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First Line:
Of unquhile John to lie or ban
Page No:
p.68
Poem Title:
Postscript
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First Line:
In sonnet slee the man I sing
Page No:
pp.70-73
Poem Title:
The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on Patie Birnie.
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First Line:
Flushed with a double draught of double strong
Page No:
pp.73-75
Poem Title:
A Dialogue betwixt a Malt-man and an Excise-Man
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First Line:
An old bold warrior lies within this clay
Page No:
p.75
Poem Title:
Sir John Barleycorn's Epitaph
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First Line:
Kilbarchan now may say alas
Page No:
pp.76-78
Poem Title:
The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan; or, The epitaph of Habbie Simson, Who on his drone bore bonny flags; He made his cheeks as red as crimson, And babbled when he blew the bags
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First Line:
A story reached my ears some days ago
Page No:
p.78
Poem Title:
A Tale of a Beau and a Barber
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First Line:
These fifty years I have been gathering gods
Page No:
pp.78-79
Poem Title:
On a Miser
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First Line:
There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive
Page No:
pp.79-80
Poem Title:
The Self-Tormentor
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First Line:
Few of the grave and wise delight to go
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pp.80-81
Poem Title:
The Edinburgh Maid
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First Line:
All you that in your beds do lie
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p.81
Poem Title:
The Pretend Town-Cryer
Attribution:
By a gentleman who borrowed the bell-man's cloak and bell, and rung, and repeated the verses as under thro' the streets of Edinburgh, at four o'clok in the morning, May 10. 1720.
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First Line:
Why should I weep when censured by the law
Page No:
p.81
Poem Title:
The Lost Maidenhead
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First Line:
Saw not thy seed in sandilands
Page No:
p.82
Poem Title:
Advice to the King, 1532.
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First Line:
Since Will and Meg are married
Page No:
p.82
Poem Title:
Will. and Meg
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First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
Page No:
pp.82-98
Poem Title:
The Country Wake, at Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
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First Line:
There is a little god called love
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pp.98-105
Poem Title:
The Heathen Heroes; or, Vulcan Cuckolded by Mars.
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First Line:
At Cana once heaven's Lord was pleased
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p.105
Poem Title:
On the 28th May, G. I.
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First Line:
Datty how goes the honest trade
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pp.106-113
Poem Title:
The Presbyterian Pope
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First Line:
I do believe tis in my power
Page No:
p.113
Poem Title:
The Kirk-Treasurer's Creed
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First Line:
Papists ye'er fairly foiled think shame and blush
Page No:
pp.113-114
Poem Title:
The Cameronian Tooth
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First Line:
When popery was pulled down in days of yore
Page No:
pp.114-120
Poem Title:
Rome's Legacy to the Kirk of Scotland; a Satyr on the Stool of Repentance
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First Line:
Pannels you are indicted as rascals
Page No:
pp.121-122
Poem Title:
Burbank and Faichney's Indictment
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First Line:
Revrend matrons of assize
Page No:
pp.122-123
Poem Title:
Lady Ballop's Speech to the Jury.
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First Line:
The ladies having heard complaint
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p.122
Poem Title:
The Interlocutor.
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First Line:
The ladies of judiciary court
Page No:
pp.123-124
Poem Title:
Sentence of the Court
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First Line:
We in the inquest do report
Page No:
p.123
Poem Title:
Verdict of the Inquest.
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First Line:
All ye good people of this city
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p.124
Poem Title:
Faichney's Speech on the Ladder.
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The ark when crammed with unclean beasts was not
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p.124
Poem Title:
Burbank's Farewell.
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On ship board went the church at heaven's command
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pp.125-126
Poem Title:
The Seaman and Carpenter's Honours.
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Where went the virgin mother of our god
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pp.126-127
Poem Title:
The Stablers Honours.
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A new born world the gardener's task began
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pp.127-128
Poem Title:
The Gardiners Honours.
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First Line:
Now lend your lugs ye benders fine
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pp.128-135
Poem Title:
The Miller Cuckolded.
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First Line:
Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk
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pp.135-138
Poem Title:
Elegy on Robert Forbes.
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First Line:
Here all alone
Page No:
p.138
Poem Title:
His Epitaph.
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First Line:
Tom was sae subtile and sae fu' o greed
Page No:
pp.138-139
Poem Title:
On the Downfall of Thomas Butter's Nose in the Month of June.
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Long have we have two kings I do assure ye
Page No:
p.139
Poem Title:
On the Sign of the Three Kings.
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Wha's dainty bairn are ye my winsome dear
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pp.139-141
Poem Title:
A Poem on the Sign of the Mermaid.
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Here lies a man a happy man was he
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p.141
Poem Title:
On a poor Frenchman who dyed of joy on hearing he was entitled to a prize of 1000 Livres.
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First Line:
To the worshipful cordiners of the west port
Page No:
p.141
Poem Title:
Petition of the Shoe-Makers Apprentice.
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First Line:
Are not the ravens fed great god by thee
Page No:
p.142
Poem Title:
On Providence.
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Fairest and finest of the female kind
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p.142
Poem Title:
To a Lady on her Discovering a Spring.
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Stately stept he east the wa
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pp.142-150
Poem Title:
Hardyknute, a Fragment.
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Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta fisea
Page No:
pp.150-155
Poem Title:
Polemo Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam
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Grahamius notabilis coegerat montanos
Page No:
pp.155-156
Poem Title:
Praelium Gillicrankianum Cantilena.
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