Discommendatory verses on those which are truly commendatory on the author of the two Arthurs [R29732]
- DMI number:
- 117
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R29732
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- n/a
- Shelfmark:
- BOD 2799 c. 30
- Full Title:
- [i]Discommendatory VERSES,[/i] | ON THOSE | Which are Truly Commendatory, | ON THE | AUTHOR | OF THE | Two ARTHURS, | AND THE | Satyr against WIT. | [rule] | [epigraph | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year, MDCC.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Laudat, amat, cantat nostros mea Roma Libellos, | Meq; sinus omnes, me manus omnis habet. | Ecce! rubet quidam, pallet, stupet, oscitat, odit, | Hoc volo, nunc nobis Carmina nostra placent. | 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.
- Comments:
- Many of the poems in this miscellany are direct replies to poems in Commendatory Verses.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface [2pp.]
- 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). Includes a description of the background to this miscellany, and reproduces the poems in it. Boys gives attributions for many of the poems in Commendatory Verses, but not for Discommendatory Verses; however he states 'although some scholars attribute DV entirely to Blackmore himself, it seems certain that it...was the fruit of several poets' labors' (p.43; see pp. 43-46, and esp. n.14 p. 46).
- Title:
- Commendatory verses on the author of the two arthurs and the satyr against wit [R29312]
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- ESTC No:
- R29312
- 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:
- Author:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- ESTC: 'Anonymous. By Sir Richard Blackmore'.
- First Line:
- B--n thou believest thou'rt famous for a jest
- Page No:
- n.p.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By nature small and of a dwarfish breed
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- A Short and True History of a certain Captain-General
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A pox on rhymes and physic S---ly cried
- Page No:
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- To the Poetical Knight, who would have no Body spoil Paper but Himself
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis plain that wit at Will's is very scarce
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- To the Prosaick Poet, occasion'd by the two following Lines: Thy Satyrs Bite not, but like Aesop's Ass, / Thou kick'st the Darling whom thou would'st caress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let B-----le write on and styled a man of letters
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- The Noble Corrected; or Advice to a Quality Commentator, who Writes in Defence of Greek Epistles as if he understood 'em.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- An Equal Match, or the Drawn Battle
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee dear scribbling doctor why so short
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- To the Sorry Poetaster at Will's Coffee-House
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bold man of war the drift of thy designs
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- To the Noble Captain, who was in a Damn'd Confounded Pet, because the Author of the Satyr against Wit, was pleas'd to Pray for his Friend, occasion'd by this Distich: His Mercy, not his Justice, made thee Knight, Which P---r may demand with equal Right.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some scribbling fops as D----is is by name
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- To the Inviolably Dull Critick, on his Heroical Strains upon the Satyr against Wit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoever thou art to me and sense unknown
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- To a Rhimer, who if he takes pains, Writes as if he did not
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Advice to P----rs the adviser's zeal may prove
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- To a L---d who would be a Saint, if he was as free from all other Sins, as he is from Hypocrisie
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Believe me madam that your muse has shown
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady dignified and distinguish'd by the Name of Critick and Poet, on Her incomprehensible Raileries on the Satyr against Wit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since you to poetry will make pretence
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- A Modest Request to the Poetical Squire
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You bid me take my pen again tis true
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- To an author, who never wrote but two Distichs and an half, and those could not pass Muster
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If shallow critics as you're pleased to say
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- A Tale taken to pieces
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When B---- contending I with R----r spied
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by the News that Tom B----n had the Courage to Engage with Sir Richard Blackmore, after his Bookseller had Defeated him
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not that I blame your flattery or your spleen
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- To Codron's and the Lady's humble servant
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Codron may please the ladies as he writes
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- To the same, on the same Subject
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Friend by my soul the devil's in thy quill
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- To the same, occasion'd by the verse which reflects on Dr. Gibbons, (viz.) He will his health to Mirmil's care resign
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor Job was plagued of holy men the best
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram on Dr. Ch----ood.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Be not puffed up with punning friend of mine
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To the Quibling, Drib'ling, Scribling Poetaster, who has let himself out for Scandal to the Wits at Will's Coffee-House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If coffee does awake the senses keep
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To the same upon his calling Sir R---- B-----re's Composures, Coffee Rhimes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Methinks you take too much upon you sir
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- An Answer to a great many Impertinent Questions
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dame Fortune's just malicious fool I see
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- To the same Trifling Fellow, T---- B----n
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If shitten lines should wipe a shitten a-se
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Upon seeing a Man wipe his A--se with T-- B---'s Satyr against the French King
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram, occasion'd by Mr. Brady's, about his Friend Mr. Tate
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If B----re labours as he writes to please
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- To the Unworthy Author of the verses on the Satyr against Wit
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If monarch's as you'll have't on trust reward
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- A Reply to the Story of the Greek Chevalier
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If you're a l---d as whispering fame reports
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- To the same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That B----d raves both friends and foes conclude
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Merry Thoughts on Dr. B---d's Melancholy Reflections on the Deficiency of Useful Learning
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- B----d with noisy cures may make us smile
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- On the same Eternal Talent
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If knighthood only be the hero's right
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- The Adviser taken to Task
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That C--- drinks hard and late in taverns sits
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- To a midnight Author who does not Cant I'll be Sworn
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Will thou dost much mistake the doctor's parts
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- On the same, to a Friend who said Dr. B---d Talk'd like an Apothecary
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The parliament who cried down squibs and rockets
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- To the same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were I to turn physician and prescribe
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- To a Great Man who makes himself Little
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Job as thou sayst being willing to forget
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- To the same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some folks may write and writing be concealed
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- To T. B-- upon His concealing his Name, when He made the Author of the Satyr against Wit, the subject of his harmless Satyr for concealing His.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis false lewd priest I speak it in thy face
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- To an Epigrammatic Parson
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tom take my word thou'st done like man of skill
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- To the same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bold thy attempt let truth and friendship speak
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- A Consolatory Paper of Verses to Dr. D--ke, upon the News that He commended the 4th edition of Dr. Garth's Dispensary, and could not get His own Translations of Herodotus to bear One
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lawyer and bard believe me for thy friend
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- To the same, on his Poem, call'd Greenwich-Hill
- Attribution:
- By another Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy thoughts were never great it's very plain
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. F. M. on his Incomprehensible Farce, which goes by the Name of the Generous Choice.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By all the puns that D---l ever made
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- A Pun...To T--- B--- upon his Witches Trusty Broomstaff.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. D--- P---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If wit as thou art told is a disease
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- To the Infamous Poetastor at Will's Coffee-House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That we have wooden horses at our doors
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- To the same, by one who is Free of the Sadler's Company.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I tell thee man thy charges I defy
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- To a Blustering Poet, who never Spoke or Wrote any thing that was taken notice of before
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir if you'd show the doctor's worth and skill
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- To the Gentleman whom Dr. C--lb--ch Cur'd of the Gout
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir we rejoice to hear that you are sound
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- To the same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By nature meant by want a pedant made
- Page No:
- pp.25-28
- Poem Title:
- Notes on the two Celebrated Copies in the Commendatory Verses, to let the Reader know the difference between the faithfulness of their Epitome and our Copies, without the omission of one Line.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How B---n was born in garret or in cell
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram on T--m B--n
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If Arthur from a ravished parent came
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- On the Same
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where N---n lives I cannot tell
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram flung away on a certain Ballad-making Senator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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