Cupid's bee-hive: or, the sting of love (1721) [ECCO] [T64326]

DMI number:

478

Publication Date:

1721

Volume Number:

None of 1

ESTC number:

T64326

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113324444

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

CUPID's BEE-HIVE: | OR, | The STING of LOVE. | Translated from BONEFONIUS, | By several Hands. With Some Original Poems. | I. The PEER and the MAIDENHEAD. | II. FRUITION in a DREAM. | III. The [i]Withered[/i] PUNK. | IV. Female Ambition. | V. The ANGLERS. A Ballad. | VI. An ODE on St. CECILIA's Day. Now | first publish'd from the Original | By Mr. [i]ADDISON[/i]. | [ornament] | [i]LONDON[/i]: Printed for E. CURL, at the | [i]Dial[/i] and [i]Bible[/i] over against [i]Catherine-Street[/i], in | the [i]Strand[/i], M.DCCXXI. Price 1[i]s[/i]. 6[i]d[/i].

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1s. 6d.

Comments:

MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of verses on love and sex OTHER COMMENTS: Section titled 'Original Poems. By Several Hands', beginning p. 76.

References:

Case 318

Related People

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Translated from:

Jean Bonnefons

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

'Translated from Bonefonius', title page T64326.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Spite of advice my burning passions reign

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Poem Title:

Bonefonius Bas. VI. Resolving to be constant to his Mistress. Inscrib'd to Matthew Bruyere, Chancellor of Paris.

Attribution:

By Mr. Foxton

Attributed To:

Thomas Foxton

First Line:

As comets sweeping with a fiery train

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Bas. XIII. Wherein he introduceth a Comparison between his Mistress and a Comet.

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First Line:

Hail happy darling rival of my bliss

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pp.7-10

Poem Title:

Bas. III. Wherein he envys the Happiness of his Mistress's Lapdog.

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First Line:

May noisy teagues affront the jades

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pp.10-18

Poem Title:

The Peer and the Maidenhead: Or, The 27th Ode of the 3d Book of Horace, Imitated.

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First Line:

Lyce thank heaven old age's claws

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pp.19-23

Poem Title:

The Withered Punk: or, The 13th Ode of the Fourth Book, Imitated.

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First Line:

Far hence ye foolish fits and fears

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pp.24-27

Poem Title:

Fruition, in a Dream.

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First Line:

As Jove lay in Latona's arms

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

A Woman's Ambition.

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First Line:

Sleep thou imaginary cure of care

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pp.29-34

Poem Title:

The IXth Elegy of the IId Book of Johannes Secundus, Translated. To Sleep, to drive it away from his Mistress, lying with him.

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First Line:

Why flies my fair why traverse you the plain

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pp.35-39

Poem Title:

Bas. XV. From Bonefonius, Wherein he complains of his Mistress's Flight.

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First Line:

Why o ye wanton leering eyes

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pp.40-43

Poem Title:

Bas. XX. Wherein He says he never will visit his Mistress any more.

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First Line:

Lend me my dear that eye of thine

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pp.44-45

Poem Title:

Bas. XXV. Wherein He desires that his Mistress may be smitten with the same Eyes, with which He expires.

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First Line:

Oh Cupid cruel and severe

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pp.45-47

Poem Title:

Bas. XXI. Wherein he begs of Cupid to put an End to his Kisses.

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First Line:

Unhappy soul how darest thou rest

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pp.47-49

Poem Title:

Bas. XVII. Wherein he requires a Measure in Kissing.

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First Line:

O tooth too cruel fierce and fell

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pp.50-53

Poem Title:

Bas. IV. He curses his Tooth, because it had wounded his Mistresses Breasts, when he was snatching a Kiss.

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First Line:

My life my love my joy my smart

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pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Bas. VII. Wherein he proposes to Kiss his Mistress against her Will.

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First Line:

Whilst future combats I devise

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Bas. XXXII. He intreats the Queen of Love (if by chance he should expire, in a Combat of Kisses) that she would conduct his Soul to the Mansion of Lovers.

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First Line:

Begone you no relief afford

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pp.59-61

Poem Title:

Bas. XXVII. Wherein he curses the Muses for not increasing his Mistress's Affections.

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First Line:

Still like Neaera you defy

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pp.62-65

Poem Title:

Bas. XIV. He despises his Mistress for her Haughtiness.

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First Line:

I don't complain that you my passions raise

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pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Bas. XXX. Paraphras'd, Wherein he complains that he has no Just Cause of Dying.

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First Line:

When thou art all so honey sweet

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pp. 68-69

Poem Title:

Bas. X. He admires all the Sweetness and Bitterness of Pancharilla, his Mistress.

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First Line:

For why should I the truth conceal

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pp.70-75

Poem Title:

To Antonius Cotellus, a Senator of Paris. Describing the Charms of his Mistress, wherewith he says he is Captivated.

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First Line:

Prepare the hallowed strain my muse

Page No:

pp. 76-80

Poem Title:

An Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. November 22. 1699. By Mr. Addison. Now first Printed from the Original. Set to Musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell.

Attribution:

By Mr. Addison

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The rising moon in silver glowed

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pp. 81-86

Poem Title:

The Tears of Thyrsis. An Elegiac Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Foxton.

Attributed To:

Thomas Foxton

First Line:

Mourn all ye Venuses and Cupids mourn

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pp. 87-88

Poem Title:

Lesbia's Sparrow. From Catullus

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First Line:

Hail ye bright curls of golden hair

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pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Bas. XVIII. From Bonifonius. He curses the Beauty of his Mistress, with which he was so captivated.

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First Line:

Of all the recreations which

Page No:

pp. 91-94

Poem Title:

The Anglers. A Ballad. Written in the Year, 1664. To the Tune of Amaryllis.

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