A collection of hymns and poems for the use of the October club [T146866]
- DMI number:
- 315
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T146866
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB131750664
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 72
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | HYMNS | POEMS, | For the Use of | The October Club. | [rule] | [i]By Dr.[/i] S---------l, [i]Dr.[/i] A-------y, [i]Dr[/i]. S-------e, | [i]Dr[/i]. M------ss, [i]and little[/i] T---------p [i]of[/i] Oxford, | [i]Ch----ns to the said Club[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year 1711. | [i]Price[/i] 6 d.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Political miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 6 d
- Pagination:
- [1-9] 2-38.
- Bibliographic details:
- Octavo in fours. The pamphlet has been clumsily trimmed.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: 'The Epistle Dedicatory to the Right Worshipful Members of the October Club' is a mock dedication lamenting the fact that "some people may turn so grave a Composure into Ridicule' and poking fun at passive obedience and the drunkeness of the Tory members of the club.
- References:
- Case 256.
- First Line:
- Gay was the treat and spacious was the board
- Page No:
- pp.1-4
- Poem Title:
- The O---br Feast.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A poor Samaritan as story goes
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- A Tale of the O----br C--n.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At the sign of Bow-Bell in a secret Cabal
- Page No:
- pp.7-9
- Poem Title:
- The C--b.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All you that did us trust sirs
- Page No:
- pp.10-15
- Poem Title:
- A Song. To the Tune of A Soldier and a Sailor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sons of October
- Page No:
- pp.16-21
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To the knights burgesses and cits
- Page No:
- pp.22-27
- Poem Title:
- The Gamester's Petition To The House of Commons, Against The Bill for the better Preventing of Excessive and Deceitful Gaming.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The barren age of unbelief is past
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- The O---br Jubilee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Brethren behold how kind and good
- Page No:
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- The Marquis of Tw------'s Speech to the Scotch Parliament, About Their Carrying on a Trade to the South Seas, by their intended Settlement at Darien. [Set to the Tune of one of Buchanan's Psalms.]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wretch had committed all manner of evil
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- The Church Builder.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What from the month October take your name
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- To The October Club, On The B-ll for Importing F----
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when the church's doctrines were arraigned
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- To the House of Commons Upon The Act for Building Fifty New Churches.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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