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Commendatory verses on the author of the two arthurs and the satyr against wit [R29312]

DMI number:
119
Publication Date:
1700
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
R29312
EEBO/ECCO link:
n/a
Shelfmark:
BOD Antiq.c.E.1700.3
Full Title:
Commendatory VERSES, | ON THE | AUTHOR | OF THE | Two ARTHURS, | AND THE | Satyr against Wit; | By some of his particular Friends. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [two rules] | [ornament] | [two rules] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed in the Year M D C C.
Epigraph:
[i]Insanit[/i] Scaevola [i]factus Eques.[/i] | [i]Innocuos permitte Sales; cur[/i] ludere [i]nobis | Non liceat, licuit si[/i] jugulare [i]tibi?[/i] | Mart.
Place of Publication:
London
Genres:
Topical miscellany, Collection of poems about subject/person, and Collection of satirical verse
Format:
Folio
Price:
n/a
Pagination:
[4], 1-28 pp.
Bibliographic details:
Some of the blanked out names have been written in: Blackmore, Bentley etc. Pagination: According to Case and Suarez, some versions of this have 30pp. Case notes that in some copies 18 and 19 are misnumbered 14 and 15; this is not the case in BOD Antiq.c.E.1700.3
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Address 'To all the honourable citizens within the bills of mortality, below the dignity of common-council-men' pp.[3-4] End matter: Advertisement for subscriptions for 'Job and Habbakkuk, an Heroic Poem' bottom p. 28.
References:
Richard C. Boys, 'Sir Richard Blackmore and the Wits: A Study of 'Commendatory Verses on the Author of the Two Arthurs and the Satyr against Wit' (University of Michigan Press, 1949). Attributions have been taken from here. Case 217
Related Miscellanies
Title:
Discommendatory verses on those which are truly commendatory on the author of the two Arthurs [R29732]
Publication Date:
1700
ESTC No:
R29732
Volume:
1 of 1
Relationship:
Unknown
Comments:
Title:
Commendatory verses or a step towards a poetical war [N2250]
Publication Date:
1702
ESTC No:
N2250
Volume:
1 of 1
Relationship:
Unknown
Comments:
Related People
Editor:
Thomas Brown
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Identified as editor in ESTC.
Content/Publication
First Line:
By nature meant by want a pedant made
Page No:
pp.1-2
Poem Title:
A Short and True History of the Author of the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
A grave physician used to write for fees
Page No:
p.2
Poem Title:
Upon the Author of the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Henceforth no more in thy poetic rage
Page No:
pp.2-3
Poem Title:
To that Incomparable Panegyrist, the Author of the Satyr upon Wit.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Let Blackmore still in good King Arthur's vein
Page No:
p.3
Poem Title:
The Quack Corrected: or, Advice to the Knight of the Ill-favour'd Muse.
Attribution:
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First Line:
A monument of dullness to erect
Page No:
p.4
Poem Title:
An Equal Match: or, A Drawn Battle.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Must I then passive stand and can I hear
Page No:
pp.4-5
Poem Title:
To the Mirrour of British Knighthood, the Worthy Author of the Satyr against Wit; Occasioned by the Hemystick p. 8. - Heav'ns guard poor A---n.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Unwieldy pedant let thy awkward muse
Page No:
p.4
Poem Title:
To the Merry Poetaster at Sadler's-hall, in Cheapside.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Some scribbling fops so little value fame
Page No:
p.5
Poem Title:
To the Cheapside Knight, on his Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
O S--rs T---t D---ett M---gue
Page No:
p.6
Poem Title:
To the Indefatigable Rhimer.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Since B---y's nonsense to outdo you strive
Page No:
p.6
Poem Title:
A modest Request to the Poetical Knight.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Thou fund of nonsense was it not enough
Page No:
pp.7-8
Poem Title:
To a thrice Illustrious Quack, Pedant, and Bard, on his Incomparable Poem call'd, A Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
By a Lady
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
We bid thee not give over the killing trade
Page No:
p.7
Poem Title:
Wholesome Advice to a City Knight, Over-run with Rhimes and Hypocrisie: Occasion'd by his Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Once more take pen in hand obsequious knight
Page No:
p.8
Poem Title:
To Sir R---- Bl---re, on the Report of the Two Arthurs being condemn'd to be hang'd.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When Job contending with the devil I saw
Page No:
pp.8-9
Poem Title:
Occasion'd by the News that Sir R---- Bl---'s Paraphrase upon Job was in the Press.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Poems and prose of different force lay claim
Page No:
pp.9-10
Poem Title:
A Tale.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
How kind is malice managed by a sot
Page No:
pp.10-11
Poem Title:
Upon the Character of Codron, as 'tis drawn by the Bungling Knight in his Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Poor Job lost all the comforts of his life
Page No:
p.11
Poem Title:
An Epigram on Job Travesty'd by the City Bard.
Attribution:
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First Line:
What frenzy has possessed thy desperate brain
Page No:
pp.11-12
Poem Title:
To the Adventurous Knight of Cheapside, upon his Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Be not puffed up with knighthood friend of mine
Page No:
p.12
Poem Title:
Upon the Knighting of Sir R--- Bl---re, for his Incomparable Poem call'd, King Arthur.
Attribution:
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First Line:
In coffee house begot the short lived brat
Page No:
p.13
Poem Title:
Upon seeing a Man light a Pipe of Tobacco in a Coffee-house, with a leaf of King Arthur.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Let the malicious critics snarl and rail
Page No:
p.13
Poem Title:
Upon King Arthur, partly written in the Doctor's Coach, and partly in a Coffee-house.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Rail on discourteous knight if modest Tate
Page No:
p.14
Poem Title:
Epigram, Occasion'd by the Passage in the Satyr against Wit, that Reflects upon Mr. Tate, and ends thus, He's Honest, and, as Wit comes in, will pay.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When fired by glory Philip's godlike son
Page No:
p.14
Poem Title:
A story of a Greek Chevalier, Predecessor in a direct line to the British Knight.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Bl----re strove long with holy crafts to please
Page No:
p.15
Poem Title:
To the Pious and Worthy Author of the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Short are our powers though infinite our will
Page No:
pp.15-16
Poem Title:
Melancholy Reflections on the Deficiency of Useful Learning. To Sir R-- Bl--re.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Knighthood to heroes only once was due
Page No:
pp.16-17
Poem Title:
Friendly Advice to Dr. Bl---.
Attribution:
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First Line:
The preacher Maurus cries all wit is vain
Page No:
p.16
Poem Title:
To the Canting Author of the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Wilt thou then passive see the sacred bays
Page No:
p.17
Poem Title:
To Elkanah Settle, the City Poet.
Attribution:
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First Line:
He that in Arthur's trash has penance done
Page No:
p.18
Poem Title:
To the Author of the Satyr against Wit, upon concealing his Name.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Near Lethe's banks where the forgetful stream
Page No:
pp.18-19
Poem Title:
On Job newly Travestied by Sir R---- Bl----.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Thine is the only muse in British ground
Page No:
p.19
Poem Title:
To Sir R--- Bl--- upon his Unhappy Talent at Praising and Railing.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Bold thy attempt in these hard times to raise
Page No:
pp.20-21
Poem Title:
To Dr. Garth, on the Fourth Edition of his incomparable Poem, The Dispensary; Occasion'd by some Lines in the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
The thought was great and worthy of a cit
Page No:
pp.21-22
Poem Title:
On Sir R--- Bl---re's Noble Project to Erect a Bank of Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
As trusty broom staff midnight witch bestrides
Page No:
pp.22-23
Poem Title:
To Sir R--- Bl---re, on the two Wooden Horses before Sadlers-hall.
Attribution:
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First Line:
How durst thy railing muse vain wretch pretend
Page No:
pp.23-24
Poem Title:
To the Cheapside Quack: occasion'd by this Verse in the Satyr against Wit, "Who with more ease can cure than C----ch kill.
Attribution:
By a Gentleman whom Dr. C--lb--ch had cur'd of the gout.
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Not attributed
First Line:
If wit as we are told be a disease
Page No:
p.23
Poem Title:
To a Famous Doctor and Poet at Sadlers-hall.
Attribution:
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First Line:
I charge thee knight in great Apollo's name
Page No:
p.24
Poem Title:
To that most incomparable Bard and Quack, the Author of the Satyr against Wit.
Attribution:
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First Line:
In London city near Cheapside
Page No:
p.25
Poem Title:
A merry Ballad on the City Bard. To a New Play-house Tune.
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First Line:
The British Arthur as historians tell
Page No:
p.25
Poem Title:
Epigram upon King Arthur.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Who can forbear and tamely silent sit
Page No:
pp.26-28
Poem Title:
An Epitome of a Poem, truly call'd, A Satyr against Wit; done for the Undeceiving of some Readers, who have mistaken the Panegyrick in that Immortal Work for the Satyr and the Satyr for the Panegyrick.
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