Clio and Strephon: being, the second and last part of The platonic lovers. [ESTC N27214] ECCO
- DMI number:
- 703
- Publication Date:
- 1732
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N27214
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111411234
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO
- Full Title:
- [i]Clio[/i] and [i]Strephon:[/i] | BEING, | [i]The Second and Last Part[/i] | OF | The PLATONIC LOVERS. | Consisting of | Love EPISTLES, [i]&c.[/i] | BY | WILLIAM BOND, Esq; of [i]Bury St. Edmonds.[/i] | AND | Mrs. MARTHA FOWKE; | Who became enamoured by reading each others | Occasional Compositions. | [rule] | To which is Added, | A Collection of MISCELLANIES | By the most eminent Hands. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E.CURLL, in [i]Burghley-Street[/i], in the | [i]Strand.[/i] 1732. (Price 2[i]s.[/i] 6[i]d.[/i])
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellany dominated by poet and Collection of occasional pieces
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 2s. 6d.
- Pagination:
- [1-3] 4-36
- Bibliographic details:
- Incomplete miscellany (see References).
- Comments:
- Second part of miscellany titled 'The Platonic Lovers' (first part consists of verse and prose epistles between Martha Fowke and William Bond; this and its previous editions in 1720 and 1729 not included in Digital Miscellanies Index).
- References:
- Case 373 (Case lists this edition as part of a made-up miscellany; however, ECCO version contains only contents of 'Clio and Strephon' without 'A Collection of Miscellanies' advertised on title page).
- Title:
- The epistles and poems by Clio and Strephon. With the parsons daughter, a tale. [ESTC N66433] ECCO
- Publication Date:
- 1729
- ESTC No:
- N66433
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Oh gentle Hammond whilst a brother shines
- Page No:
- p.3-5
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. Clio's Picture. To Anthony Hammond, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Clio i.e. Mrs. Martha Fowke (footnote)
- Attributed To:
- Martha Sansom [nee Fowke]
- First Line:
- The love you dare but look I find
- Page No:
- p.6-7
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II. To Cleon's Eyes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The shining murderers who stab my breast
- Page No:
- p.8-9
- Poem Title:
- Epistle III. On Cleon's Letters, Darlings of my Eyes: | Where Clio's Life, and Death infolded lies.
- Attribution:
- Clio (poem title)
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How shall I paint the pangs with which I part
- Page No:
- p.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV. To these soft Lines what Name shall I impart, | But the last Message of a breaking Heart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Disguise is what I little understand
- Page No:
- p.12-13
- Poem Title:
- Epistle V. To a Friend on the Masquerades.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I court no muse amidst the tuneful throng
- Page No:
- p.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VI. To Mr. Duncan Campbell, A Gentleman who, tho' born Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's Name at first Sight, with their future Contingencies of Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet nightingale whose artful numbers show
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VII. To Clio. Occasioned by the foregoing Verses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of that famed British structure fain I'd write
- Page No:
- p.17-27
- Poem Title:
- Buckingham-House.
- Attribution:
- By Strephon. i.e. William Bond, Esq; of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk (footnote)
- Attributed To:
- William Bond
- First Line:
- Chloe a country vicar's daughter
- Page No:
- p.28-35
- Poem Title:
- The Parson's Daughter. A Tale. For the Use of pretty Girls with small Fortunes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From hence let females learn to shun
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had Adam formed with every grace
- Page No:
- p.35-36
- Poem Title:
- A Thought, on Reading Dr. Burnet's Archaeology.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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