Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

DMI number:

697

Publication Date:

1728

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T11213

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111705650

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 2329

Full Title:

[i]CUPID[/i]'s | METAMORPHOSES; | OR, | Love [i]in all[/i] Shapes. | BEING | The SECOND and last VOLUME | OF THE | POETICAL WORKS | OF | Mr. [i]William Pattison[/i], | Late of [i]Sidney College, Cambridge.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVIII. | [i]Price Six Shillings.[/i]

Epigraph:

OVID, [i]in all his[/i] Changes, [i]shews great[/i] Art. | [i]But[/i] PATTISON [i]by[/i] Nature [i]strikes the[/i] Heart. | Europa's BULL [i]we find, and[/i] Leda'[i]s[/i] SWAN, | [i]Sink far beneath[/i] that Lordly Creature MAN. | [i]He never deviates from[/i] Creation's-Road, | [i]Nor would assume a[/i] Brute [i]to be a[/i] God.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Memorial collection and Miscellany dominated by poet

Format:

Octavo

Price:

Six shillings

Pagination:

[4] i-iv [1]-312, [1]-16

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page p.[113]: [ornament] | [i]LAURA:[/i] | OR, THE | MISTRESS. | Petrarch [i]and[/i] Pattison [i]invoke[/i] one [i]Name[/i], | [i]And[/i] both [i]by[/i] LAURA [i]gain immortal Fame.[/i] | [ornament] Separate title page p.[181]: [ornament] | POEMS | AND | TRANSLATIONS: | Wrote by Mr. PATTISON, | [i]When at[/i] Appleby-School; | Which were in the Custody of a Friend at [i]York,[/i] | and, now by him, communicated to the Editor. | [ornament]

Comments:

Plate facing title page in ECCO not found in BOD copy. First volume entitled 'The poetical works of Mr. William Pattison, late of Sidney College Cambridge' (1727) (only contains works of Pattison, so not a miscellany).

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To Florio, at York' signed E.C. (Edmund Curll), 2pp.; Table of Contents pp.i-iv (errata at foot of p.iv) BACK MATTER: Publisher's advertisement pp.[1]-16.

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Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Is then this hand to Phaon's eyes unknown

Page No:

p.2-18

Poem Title:

Sapho to Phaon.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

These lines my lovely faithless swain peruse

Page No:

p.19-33

Poem Title:

Oenone to Paris.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

All health to thee fair nymph thy Paris sends

Page No:

p.34-61

Poem Title:

Paris to Hellen.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

These lines my lord your cruel absence mourn

Page No:

p.62-71

Poem Title:

Penelope to Ulysses.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

From that inhuman shore these lines receive

Page No:

p.72-83

Poem Title:

Ariadne to Theseus.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Thus some expiring swan bewails her woe

Page No:

p.85-101

Poem Title:

Dido to Aeneas.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

That health Leander to his Hero sends

Page No:

p.102-108

Poem Title:

Leander to Hero, Priestess of the Temple of Venus.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

The winds expiring in a softer breeze

Page No:

p.109-111

Poem Title:

Laodamia to Protesilaus

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

To you dear object of my first desires

Page No:

p.115-119

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Laura.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

While fierce inclement storms descend

Page No:

p.120-122

Poem Title:

On a Rose gathered, by Laura, in Winter.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

When Laura's tuneful airs my soul surprise

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

On Laura's Singing.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

See lovely unrelenting Laura see

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

To Laura, walking in the Rain.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Though night her deepest sables spread

Page No:

p.125-126

Poem Title:

To Laura, who thought I mistook her for another in the Dark.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

When nature formed the lovely Spartan maid

Page No:

p.127-129

Poem Title:

Laura's Picture.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

If Laura but wear it a feather can charm

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

On a Feather in her Hair.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Two charming nymphs to man's destruction born

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

Hellen and Laura.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Nay now I yield for who could ever withstand

Page No:

p.131-132

Poem Title:

To a Lady, fishing.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Show me said I thou mighty god of love

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

The Fatal Request to Cupid.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

While with strange surprise I see

Page No:

p.134-135

Poem Title:

On hearing a very homely, and deformed Lady sing finely.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

In vain my Damon you look pale and write

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

To a Friend in Love.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

As Dolly and her favorite swain

Page No:

p.137-139

Poem Title:

The Disappointed Maid, and the drowzy Swain. A Tale.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Horace I think prescribes this rule

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

The Case stated. Inter caesa, & porrecta.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

I've very often heard what fear can do

Page No:

p.141-143

Poem Title:

A Prologue to the Funeral: A Comedy. Supposed to be spoken before the University of Cambridge.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Come my Laura come my love

Page No:

p.144-146

Poem Title:

The Enjoyment.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

She's young and she's tender

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

A Description of his Mistress.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Whilst these vernal sweets exhale

Page No:

p.148-149

Poem Title:

Sent Me, from a Lady, with a Rose.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Sure all submit to lovely Laura's charms

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

On an Apple, given me by Laura.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Shepherd if you see me fly

Page No:

p.150-151

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

When Philly sings these tender strains

Page No:

p.152-154

Poem Title:

On hearing a Lady sing Prior's Alexis

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Is this dear maid the price of all my pains

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

To a Lady, Who, in return for a Copy of Verses, sent me a flower'd Cap.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

They say that out of pure ill-nature

Page No:

p.155-157

Poem Title:

On Crito, who wrote against Me.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Let tears no more lament the dead in vain

Page No:

p.158-160

Poem Title:

On Reading the Turtle and Sparrow, A Tale.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Say Prior stands this busto here to show

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr. Prior's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Well then when will these railings end

Page No:

p.161-164

Poem Title:

A Receipt to make a Modern Poet. Semper ego Auditor--

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Contending troops and fields of death I sing

Page No:

p.165-170

Poem Title:

The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes. Translated from the Latin of Mr. Addison.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

My sacred liege if sorrow cease to flow

Page No:

p.171-180

Poem Title:

An Epistle to His Majesty, King George II. On his Accession to the Throne.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Twas when the pearly wings of rosy light

Page No:

p.183-184

Poem Title:

A Pastoral.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Let not the turns of fate molest

Page No:

p.185-191

Poem Title:

A Paraphrastical Translation of the third Ode of the second Book of Horace. To a Lady. Aequam memento rebus in ardius, &c.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

When you bright nymph designed to crop a rose

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Upon Belinda, who, gathering a Rose, prick'd her Finger.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Oft had I read of Cupid's arms

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

The Conquest.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Content thou only solace of the mind

Page No:

p.193-195

Poem Title:

On Contentment.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

To God my muse address your loftiest song

Page No:

p.196-201

Poem Title:

A Divine Poem. Selected from the 18th, and 91st Psalms.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

But now the Lord ineffable and bright

Page No:

p.202-208

Poem Title:

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job, Paraphras'd in Blank Verse.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Yet yet he lives O yet kind heavens spare

Page No:

p.209-212

Poem Title:

An Elegy: To the Memory of a Friend, begun in his Sickness.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

In vain my Laura you conceal that name

Page No:

p.213-214

Poem Title:

To Laura.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Fast by those banks where aged Eden glides

Page No:

p.215-216

Poem Title:

An Idyllium.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Non-con at Satan in the pulpit rails

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

The Dissenter.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Piping he sat as merry as his look

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

Description of a Shepherd.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Underneath a mossy mountain

Page No:

p.218-219

Poem Title:

Amoret and Florimello. A Pastoral Song.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

In vain poor nymph to win our youthful hearts

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

To an old Lady who painted.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

When Zephyrinda's softest airs I hear

Page No:

p.221-222

Poem Title:

Upon Zephyrinda's Singing.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

George Limpus is lame yet has gotten a bride

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

Upon a Lame Man newly married.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

What art can prevail over this wonderful dame

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

Spoken Extempore to a Lady, upon seeing her Shadow in the Water.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Like Semele should Celia try her charms

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

Upon a Lady's having been at Naples.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Whilst thus my knife inscribes to fame

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

Written with a Penknife on a Tree.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

As on these fading leaves I wrote my name

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

Wrote in a Lady's Pocket-Book.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

While Shallow-Brains scribbles his Phillis's name

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

On a Drunkard's writing his Mistress's Name on a Drinking-Glass.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Querpo surrounded by the rabble rout

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

The Quack.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Old Gripus went to buy a suit of clothes

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

The Miser.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Let me not be too high nor yet too low

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

From Horace. Auream quisquis Mediocritatem Diligit - Turn'd and applied to Chloe.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Old Olivia wears a mask

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Speak Truth and Shame the Devil.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Tom Hobblestart in Elegaics writes

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Upon a Lame, Latin Elegaic, Bard.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Dactyl and Squib make verses as they go

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Tom Jingle's rivers murmur as they go

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Upon One who stiled himself a Great Master of the Easy Poetry.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Chloe the arrantest jilt alive

Page No:

p.231-232

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Chloe's in every part divine

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

On Chloe.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Chloe the wonder of the latter age

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

The day that gave Belinda breath

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

To fair Belinda crown the sparkling bowl

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

Toast.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Whilst others toil to gain themselves a name

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

Upon the Lord Rochester's Poem on Nothing.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

You ask me the nymph that delights me the most

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

I'm sure my Celia that you'd smile

Page No:

p.235-236

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Mourn all ye poets mourn ye nymphs and swains

Page No:

p.237-246

Poem Title:

Verses on the Death of Mr. William Pattison.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail goddess of the lonely fields and groves

Page No:

p.247-253

Poem Title:

Ode to Melancholy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Roche of King's College.

Attributed To:

Mr. Roche

First Line:

Celestial wisdom in a virtuous soul

Page No:

p.254-260

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on Some Passages in the Book of Wisdom, Chap. v. vii, viii.

Attribution:

By the Same. i.e. Roche.

Attributed To:

Mr. Roche

First Line:

All hail of ages thou perpetual source

Page No:

p.261-269

Poem Title:

Ode on Time.

Attribution:

Ibid. (Table of Contents) i.e. Mr. Roche.

Attributed To:

Mr. Roche

First Line:

A grand procession and a babe I sing

Page No:

p.270-282

Poem Title:

The Country Christening.

Attribution:

Done from the Latin, by Mr. Goodbarne.

Attributed To:

Mr. Goodbarne

First Line:

Like these warm lines which with my passion burned

Page No:

p.283-284

Poem Title:

Verses wrote to a young Lady, upon her returning his Letter unopen'd.

Attribution:

By Mr. B--.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Poor relict of my once known yellow store

Page No:

p.291-304

Poem Title:

The Last Guinea.

Attribution:

By Mr. Bowman, a Scots Gentleman (Table of Contents).

Attributed To:

Mr. Bowman

First Line:

O all ye nymphs in lawless love's disport

Page No:

p.305-312

Poem Title:

Allusion to the Splendid Shilling.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed