An entire set of the monitors [N8002]
- DMI number:
- 350
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1713
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- N8002
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW118002749
- Shelfmark:
- BL 643.m.12.(24.)
- Full Title:
- An Entire SET | OF | The MONITORS. | Intended for the Promoting of RELIGION and VIRTUE, and | Suppressing of [g]Vice[/g] and [g]Immorality.[/g] | CONTAINING | Forty One POEMS | On Several Subjects, | [i]In Pursuance of Her[/i] MAJESTY's [i]Most Gracious Directions.[/i] | [rule] | Perform'd by Mr. TATE, Poet Laureat to Her MAJESTY, Mr. SMITH, and Others. | [rule] | This UNDERTAKING was Encourag'd by the [i]Subscription[/i] of the following Gen-| tlemen of the CLERGY (besides [i]That[/i] of Many of the NOBILITY, and great | Numbers of the GENTRY) His Grace my Lord Arch-Bishop of [i]York[/i], my Lord | Bishop of [i]Lincoln[/i], my Lord Bishop of St. [i]Davids[/i], my Lord Bishop of [i]Gloucester[/i], | Dr. [i]Moss[/i], Dean of [i]Ely[/i], Dr. [i]Brailsford[/i] Dean of [i]Wells[/i], Dr. [i]Wiliams[/i], Dr. [i]Bedfourd[/i], | Dr. [i]Brown[/i], Dr. [i]Fog[/i], Dr. [i]Pelling[/i], Dr. [i]Bray[/i], Dr. [i]Hoadley[/i], Dr. [i]Blake[/i], Dr. [i]Hunt[/i], Dr. | [i]King[/i], Dr. [i]Waugh[/i], Dr. [i]Wells[/i], Dr. [i]Only[/i], Dr. [i]Heath[/i], with about Fifty more of that | Reverend Order. | [i]N. B.[/i] When the [i]Authors[/i] had publish'd these Twenty One Papers, they were | oblig'd (by being engag'd in other Affairs) to decline further proceeding | in this Undertaking.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of religious verse, Made-up miscellany, Periodical miscellany, and Subscription Miscellany
- Format:
- half sheet
- Price:
- 12. d per month (see Comments)
- Pagination:
- [26pp.]
- Bibliographic details:
- Miscellany consists of 21 separately issued halfsheet broadsides, sold together with a new title page to make a pamphlet. The original single-sheet papers were published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Monday 2 March 1713-Monday 6 April, and then on Friday 10 April, Monday 13 April, Saturday 18 April; Monday 20 April; and finally Friday 24 April. The final few issues contain an advertisement for another collection entitled The Oracle which will succeed this. Format given as halfsheet and not Folio as BL copy has been disbound.
- Comments:
- SUBSCRIPTION LIST: On title page. PRICE: 'The Conditions to the Subscribers are, viz. each to pay Twelve Pence a Month to have them brought home to their Houses, Six-pence on the Receipt of the first Paper, and Six-pence more when the Twelfth Paper is deliver'd to them.'
- Title:
- An entire set of the monitors [T78786]
- Publication Date:
- 1714
- ESTC No:
- T78786
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Marshall Smith
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Baker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Madam | Tis not the splendour of Great Britain's crown
- Page No:
- Numb. 0r-v
- Poem Title:
- The Introduction To The Monitor. Intended for the Promoting of Religion and Virtue, and Suppressing of Vice and Immorality. Humbly Address'd To Her Most Sacred Majesty.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Celestial dame adorned with every grace
- Page No:
- Numb. 1r-v.
- Poem Title:
- An Essay in Praise of Divine Poesie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Auspicious youths since partly for your sake
- Page No:
- Numb. 2r-v.
- Poem Title:
- An Exhortation to the Youths of Great-Britain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The youth that's touched with noble fire
- Page No:
- Numb. 2v.
- Poem Title:
- The Expedient.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Many lewd lays ah woe is me the more
- Page No:
- Numb. 2v.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- our Admiral [sic.] Spencer
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- See where Aurora does with blushes rise
- Page No:
- Numb. 3r-v.
- Poem Title:
- The Reverse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should loudest tempests and tremendous storms
- Page No:
- Numb. 3r.
- Poem Title:
- The Upright Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who themselves with slavish toil
- Page No:
- Numb. 3v.
- Poem Title:
- The Inference.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now while thy blooming spring with balmy sweets
- Page No:
- Numb. 4r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Remember thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the nauseous complicated crimes
- Page No:
- Numb. 4r.
- Poem Title:
- The Swearer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A virtuous daughter thus consoled
- Page No:
- Numb. 5v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon Poverty and Infamy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Content's a treasure sought by all mankind
- Page No:
- Numb. 5r.
- Poem Title:
- On Content.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Renown with tedious toil obtained
- Page No:
- Numb. 5v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon Fame and Infamy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Repine not pensive friend to meet
- Page No:
- Numb. 5r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Disponding Friend in Reference to the present State of Humane Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though vice at present does triumphant ride
- Page No:
- Numb. 5r.
- Poem Title:
- Upon Virtue and Vice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain we toss and turn our feverish will
- Page No:
- Numb. 6v.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In various courses busy mortals move
- Page No:
- Numb. 6r-v.
- Poem Title:
- A View of Humane Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Life have I worn out thrice thirty years
- Page No:
- Numb. 6v.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Spenser
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- In dead of night when happy mortals take
- Page No:
- Numb. 7r.
- Poem Title:
- The Disconsolate Shepherd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This treasury of death survey
- Page No:
- Numb. 7v.
- Poem Title:
- The Charnel-house.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While calm the seas appear
- Page No:
- Numb. 7v.
- Poem Title:
- Extreams are to be Avoided.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unbind that youth and you my guards withdraw
- Page No:
- Numb. 8r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Joseph's Discovery of Himself to his Brethren. Written in Latin by H. Grotius, imitated in Blank Verse. The Speakers, Joseph and Judah.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis strange that they on whom kind heavens bestow
- Page No:
- Numb. 9r-v.
- Poem Title:
- The Gamester.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here silent as its grave a body lies
- Page No:
- Numb. 10r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon Reading these Words on a Grave-stone. As I am, so shall ye be.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One year they who have reached extremest age
- Page No:
- Numb. 10v.
- Poem Title:
- The Caution.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If to a cottage majesty resort
- Page No:
- Numb. 11r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou who the mysteries of fate dost know
- Page No:
- Numb. 12r-v.
- Poem Title:
- The Witch of Endor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy thrice happy is that sweet estate
- Page No:
- Numb. 13r.
- Poem Title:
- The Character of an Humble Contented Man; from an Antient Manuscript, as appears by the Style and Versification, but 'tis hop'd the good Sense will be acceptable in This, or Any Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prayer highest soars when she most prostrate lies
- Page No:
- Numb. 13v.
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram upon Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Storms rage more fiercely on the hills than dales
- Page No:
- Numb. 13r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Another to the same Purpose ... concerning Humility.
- Attribution:
- by the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tomorrow yes tomorrow you'll repent
- Page No:
- Numb. 13v.
- Poem Title:
- Procrastination.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While impious Pilate mounts the judgment seat
- Page No:
- Numb. 14r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Matthew xxvii. 19. Also when he was set down upon the Judgment Seat, his Wife sent to him, saying, have thou nothing to do with that Just Man: For I have suffered many things this Day in a Dream by reason of him.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too much already we have heard and yet
- Page No:
- Numb. 15r-v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Crucifiction of our Blessed Saviour. A Dialogue between a Disciple and several Messengers. In Blank Verse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You that with pious prayer and fast
- Page No:
- Numb. 16r-v
- Poem Title:
- An Ode upon Easter-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They that enjoy and joy in their own love
- Page No:
- Numb. 17v.
- Poem Title:
- Upon Chast, Conjugal Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twixt Christ and death was once a mighty strife
- Page No:
- Numb. 17v.
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram upon Christ and Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When hell's amazing horrors
- Page No:
- Numb. 17r.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A prodigal's an ass
- Page No:
- Numb. 18r.
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Canst thou in dungeons smother up thy pelf
- Page No:
- Numb. 18r.
- Poem Title:
- Avarice. On a Miser that hoarded his Wealth in a Steel Chest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From a tall precipice on the sea-side
- Page No:
- Numb. 18r.
- Poem Title:
- The Prospect.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Grant me indulgent heaven a rural seat
- Page No:
- Numb. 18v.
- Poem Title:
- The Choice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst stemming life's uncertain tide
- Page No:
- Numb. 18v.
- Poem Title:
- The Voyagers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye bright angelic forms who stand
- Page No:
- Numb. 19r-v.
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These startling omens shall themselves display
- Page No:
- Numb. 20r-v.
- Poem Title:
- The Day of Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Urania though thou art used to sing
- Page No:
- Numb. 21r-v.
- Poem Title:
- On our Saviour's Passion. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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