A collection of miscellany poems, letters &c. By Mr. Brown, &c. [R31629]
- DMI number:
- 229
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R31629
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- EEBO: Wing / B5054; Wing / 1500:08
- Shelfmark:
- BL 11641.bb.67
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | Miscellany POEMS, | LETTERS, [i]&c.[/i] | [rule] | By Mr. [i]THO. BROWN.[/i] | [rule] | [i]The Second Edition, with Additions,[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed, and are to be Sold by [i]J. Nutt[/i] near | [i]Stationers-Hall.[/i] 1700.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Made-up miscellany, Miscellany dominated by poet, and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [4], 1-112, 129-208, 309-351, [3], 1-16, 1-15, [1] pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- 'Eliza Tryor' written on title page of BL 11641.bb.67IS. Mispagination: 39 misnumbered 36; 154 as 156; 155 as 157; 158 as 160; 159 as 161; 189 as 192; 192 as 189; 349 as 493.
- Comments:
- Contents: Some pieces in Latin: pp. 28-31, 47, 48-49, 69-70, 104; some pieces in prose: pp. 129-208, 309-351, 1-15. Attributions: Titlepage attributes collection to 'Mr. Tho. Brown'. Unless alternative attributions are given in the miscellany, poems are treated as being attributed to Brown and are described as 'Collected under Brown's name.'
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: 'The Bookseller to the Reader' signed 'J. S.' i.e. John Sparks, original publisher (2pp.) End matter: Table of contents following prose section, i.e. after p. 351.
- References:
- Not in Case. However, first edition + reissue (both 1699) are in Case, 216 + 216 (b)
- Title:
- A collection of miscellany poems, letters &c. [ESTC R15161]
- Publication Date:
- 1699
- ESTC No:
- R15161
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Brown
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Identified as author in ESTC.
- Publisher:
- John Sparks
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'The Bookseller to the Reader' is signed J. S; Sparks was the publisher of an earlier edition of this miscellany, R15161.
- Sold by:
- John Nutt
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Sold by J. Nutt'
- First Line:
- To charming Celia's arms I flew
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- The Contented Whore. An Imitation of Epig. 66. in Mart. l. 12.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- What planet distracts thee what damnable star
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Vintner. Mart. Epig. 19. l. 1. The Hint taken from Quid te Tucca juvat.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When Gammar Gurton first I knew
- Page No:
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 20. l. 1.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- In some vile hamlet let me live forgot
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 5. l. 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Nothing than Chloe ever I knew
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 61. l. 11.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Tell me O Lydia for by heavens I swear
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 8. l. 1.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- What the bully of France and our friends on the Rhine
- Page No:
- pp.9-11
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 11 l. 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- To fight in your cups and abuse the good creature
- Page No:
- pp.12-14
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 27. l. I;
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Long did dark ignorance our isle overspread
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Henry Purcel
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Long have my prayers slow heaven assailed
- Page No:
- pp.16-19
- Poem Title:
- The Ode in Horace L. 4 Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Though you my Lyce in some northern flood
- Page No:
- pp.19-23
- Poem Title:
- The X. Ode in Horace L. 3. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Tis true while active blood my veins did fire
- Page No:
- pp.23-25
- Poem Title:
- The xxvi Ode in Hor. L. 3. Paraphras'd.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- At last thou antiquated whore
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- The xv. Ode in Horace Lib. 3. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Whenever I meet you still you cry
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- The Epigram in Martial L. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- And must our glorious laureate then depart
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- An Impromptu to Shadwell's Memory
- Attribution:
- By Dr. B--
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This vain gay thing sets up for man
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram under the Picture of a Beau
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Like our great father Adam fain would I
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady that would not grant the last favours under cheaper terms than Matrimony.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Page No:
- pp.32-34
- Poem Title:
- Avis sur a Mariage
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- In ancient times as learned Aesop shows
- Page No:
- pp.35-36[i.e. 39]
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Bat and the Birds. In Imitation of that of the Buzzard in the Hind and the Panther, in the year 1689.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- You dull dissenters what vain folly blinds
- Page No:
- p.36[i.e. 39]-40
- Poem Title:
- Antenor's Speech in the Second Aeneid, applied to the Declaration of Liberty of Conscience. In the year 1687.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Though twas thy luck to cheat the fatal tree
- Page No:
- pp.41-47
- Poem Title:
- A Satyr upon an Ignorant Quack that murder'd a Friends Child, and occasion'd the Mother upon the news of it to Miscarry.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When with rank poison heaven equipt Pandora
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- An imitation of it in English.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Thou cur half French half English breed
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. D----- upon his most incomparable Ballads, call'd by him Lyric Odes
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- No longer your expected play conceal
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Higden, upon the ill success of his Play.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Friend Harry some furious pretenders to thinking
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- To the same upoin his Play's being damn'd, for having too much eating and drinking in it.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- How quickly are love's pleasures gone
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- The extravagant Lover, out of French 1684
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Brave Teucer as the poets tell us
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Teucer Salamina, Patremq; Cum fugeret, &c. Hor. Ode vii. lib. I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Since all the hills around us do penance in snow
- Page No:
- pp.56-58
- Poem Title:
- Ode xi. Lib. I. in Horace imitated. Vides ut alta stet nive candidum, &c. Written in the year 1685. To Sir John Bowyer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Waller in never dying verse
- Page No:
- pp.59-61
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the 6th Ode in Horace, l. 1. Scriberis vario fortis, & hostium---- In the year 1685. after the defeat of the Rebels in the West.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When Greece overwhelmed in the wide deluge lay
- Page No:
- pp.61-63
- Poem Title:
- Prologue spoken before the University of Oxford, 1683
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Not with more grief the whiggish herd beheld
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Well whatever sins by turns have swayed me
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of a French Ode, in the ingenious Monsieur St. Evremont's Works. Tome 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Thou that not many months ago
- Page No:
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman that cut off his hair, and set up for a Spark in his old Age. Out of Martial. Epig. 43. lib. 3.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- From dark oblivion and the silent grave
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- Part of the 2d Ode in Horace l. 4 Translated. Beginning at Dignum laude Virum.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Once bear and champion did engage
- Page No:
- pp.70-73
- Poem Title:
- On the Treatment of the Modern Drama.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Kn--- of Magd. Coll.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet spouse you must presently troop and be gone
- Page No:
- pp.73-75
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of Uxor vade foras. In Mart. l. ii. Ep. 105.
- Attribution:
- By Captain Ht-----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As me no longer dear Sir John
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the 14th Epode in Hor.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Why flies Belinda from my arms
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- A translation of Ode xxii. lib. i. Vitas Hinnuleo.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- So may the beauteous goddess of the main
- Page No:
- pp.77-80
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Ode iii. L. I. in Horace Sic te Diva potens, &c. Address'd to his Honour'd Friend Mr. B-- going into Turky.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- That cousins friends and strangers fly thee
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of an Epigram 44. in Mart. lib. iii. Occurrit tibi nemo quod libenter, &c.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Phillis has a gentle heart
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gl----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had not good humour over the ill prevailed
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- On Dr. Lowther, who was observed to be grown good-natur'd a little before his Death
- Attribution:
- By another hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fling this useless book away
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Verses put into a Lady's Prayer-book.
- Attribution:
- Supposed to be written by the late Earl of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- The horn armed stag denied the horse
- Page No:
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Horse and the Stag
- Attribution:
- By Mr. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Each moment of the long-lived day
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Lesbia mi dicit semper male. Out of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- More devils than one why does the sot deny
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- On one Becker, a Parson of Amsterdam, who in a Book entitled, The World Bewitch'd, pretends to prove there is but one Devil. Plures O Beckere negas dum Daemonas esse. Contra te gens est imperiosa tua. Thus in English.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Isgrim with hunger pressed one day
- Page No:
- p.89-90
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Wolf and the Porcupine. In answer to The Argument against a Standing Army.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone
- Page No:
- pp.91-93
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of Apollo and Daphne
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Full of the godhead in his breast inshrined
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- Labienus's Speech in Lucans Pharsalia.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Dennis
- Attributed To:
- John Dennis
- First Line:
- Oh Jemmy you're a beau not I alone
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- The 63rd Epigram in Martial, Lib. 3
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. P-----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- To an old affected Court Lady
- Attribution:
- By a person of Honour
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Belinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- To Belinda. Upon her Marrying one that was Blind and Lame.
- Attribution:
- By a person of Honour
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis then decreed and now I find
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- To his Cruel Mistress. Out of French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Nay now ambitious thoughts farewell
- Page No:
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- An Ode upon a Kiss. Out of French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- I'll sing how God the world's almighty mind
- Page No:
- pp.105-112
- Poem Title:
- A Translation.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Tyburn lament in pensive sable mourn
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on that Most Orthodox and Pains-taking Divine, Mr. Samuel Smith, Ordinary of Newgate, who Died of a Quinsey on St. Bartholomew's Day, the 24th of August, 1698.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Under this stone
- Page No:
- pp.4-6
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph upon that Profound and Learned Casuist, the late Ordinary of Newgate.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Oh cruel death whose rage without remorse is
- Page No:
- pp.7-9
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy written by Stephen Switch, upon Dobbin a coach-horse, who departed this Mortal Life on Saturday the 8th of April.
- Attribution:
- written by Stephen Switch
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye ghosts of Trigg old Saffold and Ponteus
- Page No:
- pp.9-11
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Dr. Kirleus
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- The famous Kirleus Collegiate Physician
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on Dr. Kirleus of Grays-Inn-Lane, occasion'd by his Friends reporting him only gone into the Country.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- To his poor cell a satyr led
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Satry and the Traveller.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- The c-----'s desired that in their next choice
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- To you the mother of our schools
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue betwixt the New Lotteries and the Royal-Oak.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
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