Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R122]
- DMI number:
- 1646
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R122
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:11774805
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO - Bod
- Full Title:
- [i]Examen Poeticum:[/i] | BEING | THE THIRD PART | OF | Miscellany Poems. | Containing Variety of | NEW TRANSLATIONS | OF THE | [i]Ancient Poets[/i]. | Together with many | ORIGINAL COPIES, | BY THE | [i]Most Eminent Hands[/i]. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by [i]R. E[/i] for [i]Jacob Tonson[/i], at the [i]Judges | Head[/i] in [i]Chancery-Lane[/i], near [i]Fleetstreet[/i]. | M DC XCIII.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Haec potior soboles: hinc coeli tempore certo, | Dulcia mella premes[/i].---Virgil. Geor. 4. | [i]In medium quaesita reponunt[/i]. Ibid.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of literary verse, Collection includes verse in other languages, and Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Leaf X2 (pp. 305-6), with poem titled 'Considerations On The Eighty Eighth Psalm', is a cancel (catchword 'RON-' on leaf X1v does not match). Cancelland, with poem titled 'Rondelay', is leaf 2E8 (pp. 429-30). Half title, sig. A1r. SIGNATURES: gatherings A(8), B(8) and b(4) make up the preliminaries. The main body begins with a second gathering signed B. 'The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses' has separate title page (undated): sig. B1r. Pagination sequence begins with text of poem on sig. B2r. 'Syphilis' has separate title page (undated): sig. 3A1r. New pagination sequence begins on sig. B1r (third gathering signed B in the volume), following prefatory matter.
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: 'The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses' has separate title page (sig. B1r). 'Syphilis' has separate title page (sig. 3A1r) and prefatory matter: verse dedication 'The Translator To Dr. Tho. Hobbs' (sigs 3A2r-3A3r), prose 'Life of Fracastorius' (sigs 3A4r-3A6r), and commendatory poem 'To His Friend, The Writer of the Ensuing Translation' (sigs 3A7r-3A8v). French verses with parallel translations on pp. 378-79, 418-21.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: (1) Dedication 'To The Right Honourable, My Lord Radcliffe', signed 'John Dryden', sigs A3r-B6v. CHECK: leaves of gathering A bound out of order in EEBO facsimile. Are any missing? (2) 'The Bookseller To The Reader', signed 'Jacob Tonson', sigs B7r-B8r. (3) 'The Contents', sigs b1r-b4v.
- References:
- NCBEL 338 (1693)
- Title:
- Examen Poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems [N6500]
- Publication Date:
- 1706
- ESTC No:
- N6500
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems [ESTC R297]
- Publication Date:
- 1684
- ESTC No:
- R297
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Publication Date:
- 1704
- ESTC No:
- T161282
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- T142876
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T116469
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Publication Date:
- 1685
- ESTC No:
- R1682
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- ESTC No:
- R31379
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R41930
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany for the year 1694, being the fourth part of miscellany poems [N34956]
- Publication Date:
- 1708
- ESTC No:
- N34956
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N6906
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N64834
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N70161
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T175048
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R228541]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R228541
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- ESTC No:
- R31378
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 [ESTC R22916]
- Publication Date:
- 1694
- ESTC No:
- R22916
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T214159
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [N49205]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N49205
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Edward Radcliffe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- Robert Everingham
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by R. E'. Identification from ESTC.
- Publisher:
- Jacob Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed [...] for Jacob Tonson'.
- First Line:
- Of bodies changed to various forms I sing
- Page No:
- pp.1-8
- Poem Title:
- The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The golden age was first when man yet new
- Page No:
- pp.8-10
- Poem Title:
- The Golden Age.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But when good Saturn banished from above
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- The Silver Age.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hard steel succeeded then
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- The Iron Age.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To this came next in course the brazen age
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- The Brazen Age.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nor were the gods themselves more safe above
- Page No:
- pp.13-39
- Poem Title:
- The Gyants War.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The first and fairest of his loves was she
- Page No:
- pp.39-49
- Poem Title:
- The Transformation of Daphne into a Lawrel.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- An ancient forest in Thessalia grows
- Page No:
- pp.49-58
- Poem Title:
- The Transformation of Io into a Heyfar.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now Jove no longer could her sufferings bear
- Page No:
- pp.58-60
- Poem Title:
- The Eyes of Argus Transform'd into a Peacock's Train.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then Hermes thus a nymph of late there was
- Page No:
- pp.60-69
- Poem Title:
- The Transformation of Syrinx into Reeds.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The fame of this perhaps through Crete had flown
- Page No:
- pp.70-83
- Poem Title:
- The Fable Of Iphis and Ianthe, From the Ninth Book of the Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- English'd by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Acis the lovely youth whose loss I mourn
- Page No:
- pp.84-98
- Poem Title:
- The Fable Of Acis, Polyphemus, And Galatea, From the Thirteenth Book of the Metamorphoses
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Such is the mode of these censorious days
- Page No:
- pp.99-103
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Hobs.
- Attribution:
- Written by The E. of Mulgrave.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- So fell the sacred Sibyl when of old
- Page No:
- pp.104-110
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of the Learned Mr. John Selden.
- Attribution:
- R. B. T. Co. Oxon.
- Attributed To:
- Ralph Bathurst
- First Line:
- Could mournful sighs or floods of tears prevent
- Page No:
- pp.111-113
- Poem Title:
- Against Immoderate Grief. To A young Lady weeping. An Ode In Imitation of Casimire.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Welcome thou glorious spring of light and heat
- Page No:
- pp.114-116
- Poem Title:
- To The Returning Sun.
- Attribution:
- By J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John How
- First Line:
- Since all must certainly to death resign
- Page No:
- pp.117-120
- Poem Title:
- Against The Fear Of Death.
- Attribution:
- By A Person of Honour.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If righteous souls in their blessed mansions know
- Page No:
- pp.121-126
- Poem Title:
- The Dream: Occasion'd by The Death of the most Noble and Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Seymour, Mother to His Grace the Duke of Somerset.
- Attribution:
- By J. Talbot.
- Attributed To:
- James Talbot
- First Line:
- Parent of day whose beauteous beams of light
- Page No:
- pp.127-131
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn To The Morning. In Praise of Light. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Darkness thou first kind parent of us all
- Page No:
- pp.132-137
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn To Darkness.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Here those who by love's cruelty have died
- Page No:
- pp.138-142
- Poem Title:
- Aeneas His Meeting with Dido In the Elyzian Fields. Being a Translation of part of the sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneids, beginning at Hic quoque durus Amor, &c.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wolsley.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Proud and foolish noisy stream
- Page No:
- pp.143-147
- Poem Title:
- Out of the Italian Of Fulvio Testi. To Count Montecuccoli. Against Pride upon sudden Advancement.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Suffenus whom you know the witty
- Page No:
- pp.148-149
- Poem Title:
- Catullus. Epig. 19.
- Attribution:
- By The same Hand as the former. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While here for the fair Amaryllis I die
- Page No:
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- Out of the Greek Of Menage.
- Attribution:
- By The Same Hand as the former. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go for I'm impatient grown
- Page No:
- pp.151-152
- Poem Title:
- Invitation into the Country. In Imitation of the 34th Epig. Of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand as the former.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let all be hushed each softest motion cease
- Page No:
- pp.153-158
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing. Pindaric Ode
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Sir | You have obliged the British nation more
- Page No:
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- To A Person of Honour: Upon His Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Your book our old knight errants fame revives
- Page No:
- pp.162-163
- Poem Title:
- On the same.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. S---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With envy critics you'll this poem read
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- Another on the same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Mat. Clifford.
- Attributed To:
- Mat. Clifford
- First Line:
- Wonder not sir that praises yet never due
- Page No:
- pp.165-166
- Poem Title:
- On the same.
- Attribution:
- By the Ld. V.
- Attributed To:
- John Vaughan
- First Line:
- But wherefore all this pother about fame
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- On these two Verses. Out of the same. But Fame had sent forth all her nimble Spies | To blaze this Match, and lend to Fate some Eyes.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckingham.
- Attributed To:
- George Villiers
- First Line:
- Hail happy warrior hail whose arms have won
- Page No:
- pp.168-174
- Poem Title:
- To The Prince and Princess Of Orange, Upon Their Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Nat. Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Hence vain attempter of the good and great
- Page No:
- pp.175-177
- Poem Title:
- Against Sloth. When the King was at Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What art thou love whence are those charms
- Page No:
- pp.178-180
- Poem Title:
- What art thou, Love!
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. J. Allestry.
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- Great sir | When last your royal brother blessed this place
- Page No:
- pp.181-184
- Poem Title:
- Verses Spoken before the Duke and Dutchess of York, And Lady Ann, In Oxford Theatre, May the 21st. 1683.
- Attribution:
- By the Ld. S--- and Mr. C---.
- Attributed To:
- William SavileGeorge Cholmondeley
- First Line:
- Ah Thyrsis how shall humble swains
- Page No:
- pp.185-187
- Poem Title:
- Verses Spoken before the Duke and Dutchess of York, And Lady Ann, In Oxford Theatre, May the 21st. 1683.
- Attribution:
- By the Ld. S--- and Mr. C---.
- Attributed To:
- William SavileGeorge Cholmondeley
- First Line:
- Then will penurious heaven no more allow
- Page No:
- pp.188-196
- Poem Title:
- Human Life: Suppos'd to be spoken by an Epicure, in imitation of the second Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon. A Pindarique Ode. Inscribed to the Lord Hunsdon.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- When shame for all my foolish youth had writ
- Page No:
- pp.197-198
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Waller, Upon The Copy of Verses made by himself on the last Copy in his Book.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Such were the last the sweetest notes that hung
- Page No:
- pp.199-200
- Poem Title:
- Elegy: Occasion'd By the Reading and Transcribing Mr. Edmund Waller's Poem, Of Divine Love, Since his Death.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Talbot.
- Attributed To:
- James Talbot
- First Line:
- Her son not heard of and by none descried
- Page No:
- pp.201-203
- Poem Title:
- Moschus: Idyl 1st.
- Attribution:
- Done into English By Mr. J. R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We love and hate as restless monarchs fight
- Page No:
- pp.204-206
- Poem Title:
- Against Enjoyment.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- So spake the god and heavenward took his flight
- Page No:
- pp.207-214
- Poem Title:
- Priam's Lamentation and Petition To Achilles, For the Body of his Son Hector. Translated from the Greek of Homer, [Greek: Iliad reference].
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Now did the saffron morn her beams display
- Page No:
- pp.215-226
- Poem Title:
- The Lamentations Of Hecuba, Andromache, and Helen, Over the Dead Body of Hector. Translated from the Greek of Homer. [Greek: Iliad reference].
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- The tyrant queen of soft desires
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- Paraphrase Upon Horace. Ode. 19. Lib. I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis
- Page No:
- pp.229-233
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14.
- Attribution:
- Imitated by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Bless me tis cold how chill the air
- Page No:
- pp.234-238
- Poem Title:
- An Ode, In imitation of Horace, Ode IX. Lib. I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- When factious rage to cruel exile drove
- Page No:
- pp.239-241
- Poem Title:
- To The Dutchess, On Her Return from Scotland, In the Year 1682.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- From harmony from heavenly harmony
- Page No:
- pp.242-246
- Poem Title:
- A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, 1687.
- Attribution:
- Written by John Dryden, Esq; And Compos'd by Mr. John Baptist Draghi.
- Attributed To:
- Giovanni Battista DraghiJohn Dryden
- First Line:
- How long great poet shall thy sacred lays
- Page No:
- pp.247-249
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jo. Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- As mariners at sea far off descry
- Page No:
- pp.250-252
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dryden, On His Translation Of Persius.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. B. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- The Cyprian queen drawn by Apelles' hand
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Drawing My Lady Hide's Picture.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. B. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Flavia's eyes like fires suppressed
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- Song on a Lady Indispos'd.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. B. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- Page No:
- pp.255-257
- Poem Title:
- Song To A Fair, Young Lady, Going out of the Town In the Spring.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- While in divine Panthea's charming eyes
- Page No:
- p.258
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By My Ld. R.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Radcliffe
- First Line:
- Pity fair Sappho one that dies
- Page No:
- p.259
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By My Ld. R.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Radcliffe
- First Line:
- O muse to whom the glory does belong
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- A Paean, Or Song Of Triumph, On The Translation and Apotheosis Of King Charles the Second.
- Attribution:
- By my Ld. R.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Radcliffe
- First Line:
- While I was monarch of your heart
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- Out Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By My Ld. R.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Radcliffe
- First Line:
- Fortune exerts her utmost power for you
- Page No:
- pp.264-265
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady, Who Raffling for the King of France's Picture, flung the highest Chances on the Dice.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. B. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- The charming Sandwich would from cities fly
- Page No:
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- On My Lady Sandwich's Being stay'd in Town By The Immoderate Rain.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. B. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Come if y'are friends and let these hands be bound
- Page No:
- pp.268-272
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book I. Eleg. VII. To his Mistress whom he had beaten.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- Trust me my Atticus in love are wars
- Page No:
- pp.273-276
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book I. Eleg. VIII. Of Love and War.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- As Helen when to Troy she did escape
- Page No:
- pp.277-281
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book I. Eleg. X. To his Mercenary Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- Thy well known malice fretful envy cease
- Page No:
- pp.282-285
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book I. Eleg. XV. Of the Immortality of the Muses. Inscrib'd to Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- Not in the circus do I sit to view
- Page No:
- pp.286-290
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book III. Eleg. II. To his Mistress at the Horse-Race.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- Can there be gods has she not falsely swore
- Page No:
- pp.291-294
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book III. Eleg. III. Of his Perjur'd Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- As seamen shipwrecked on some happy shore
- Page No:
- pp.296-298 [i.e. 295-298]
- Poem Title:
- To The Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance
- Page No:
- pp.299-301
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1681.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Gallants a bashful poet bids me say
- Page No:
- pp.302-304
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heavy O Lord on me thy judgments lie
- Page No:
- pp.305-306
- Poem Title:
- Considerations On The Eighty Eighth Psalm.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Creator spirit by whose aid
- Page No:
- pp.307-309
- Poem Title:
- Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now let the fatal banner be displayed
- Page No:
- pp.310-320
- Poem Title:
- The Curse of Babylon. Paraphras'd From the Thirteenth Chapter Of Isaia. A Pindarique Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Tho. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Be calm my Delius and serene
- Page No:
- pp.321-324
- Poem Title:
- Out of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 3.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See how Damon's age appears
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See these two little brooks that slowly creep
- Page No:
- pp.326-327
- Poem Title:
- Love but one.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though teaching thy peculiar business be
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of Sardanapalus; Upon That, and His other Writings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The painter with immortal skill may trace
- Page No:
- pp.329-330
- Poem Title:
- Of My Lady Hyde. Occasion'd by The sight of Her Picture.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. George Granville.
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- At length the gods propitious to our prayers
- Page No:
- pp.331-334
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation Of the second Chorus, in the second Act of Seneca's Thyestes.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. George Granville.
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- Whether the nobler horses breed you raise
- Page No:
- pp.335-342
- Poem Title:
- Amor omnibus idem: Or, the Force of Love in all Creatures; Being a Translation of some Verses in Virgil's third Georgick, from Verse 209 to Verse 285.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Famed wits and beauties share this common fate
- Page No:
- pp.343-348
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode. Occasion'd by his late Play.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Sweet stream that dost with equal pace
- Page No:
- pp.349-350
- Poem Title:
- On His Mistress drown'd.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. S---
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sprat
- First Line:
- Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies
- Page No:
- pp.351-363
- Poem Title:
- To the Pious Memory Of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew. Excellent In the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He's gone and was it then by your decree
- Page No:
- pp.364-369
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl of Carlisle, Upon The Death of His Son Before Luxemburg.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where greatness is to nature's works denied
- Page No:
- pp.370-372
- Poem Title:
- The Insect. Against Bulk.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Tis true in these well polished lines
- Page No:
- pp.373-374
- Poem Title:
- Written in a Lady's Advice To A Daughter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lovely owner of this book
- Page No:
- pp.375-376
- Poem Title:
- Written in a Lady's Waller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Flavia the least and slightest toy
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- Written in the Leaves of a Fan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This Anna so fair
- Page No:
- pp.378-379
- Poem Title:
- An Incomparable Ode Of Malherb's. Written by Him when the Marriage was afoot between this King of France, and Anne of Austria.
- Attribution:
- Translated by a Person of Quality, a great Admirer of the easiness of the French Poetry.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had she but lived in Cleopatra's age
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Insulting beauty you misspend
- Page No:
- pp.381-382
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Shine forth bright sun and gild the day
- Page No:
- pp.383-386
- Poem Title:
- Song For the King's Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- After the fiercest pangs of hot desire
- Page No:
- pp.387-388
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through mournful shades and solitary groves
- Page No:
- pp.389-390
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You say you love repeat again
- Page No:
- pp.391-392
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest of thy sex and best
- Page No:
- p.393
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Heroes of old by rapine and by spoil
- Page No:
- pp.394-395
- Poem Title:
- To the King. In the Year 1686.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. George Granville.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here or elsewhere all's one to you to me
- Page No:
- p.396
- Poem Title:
- Harry Marten's Epitaph
- Attribution:
- By Himself.
- Attributed To:
- Harry Martin
- First Line:
- Tis no disgrace brave youth to own
- Page No:
- pp.397-400
- Poem Title:
- To his Friend Captain Chamberline; In Love with a Lady he had taken in an Algeriene Prize at Sea. In Allusion to the 4th Ode of Horace, Lib. the 2d.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Ye virgin powers defend my heart
- Page No:
- pp.401-402
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By A Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The wary gods lock up in cells of night
- Page No:
- pp.405-406
- Poem Title:
- Paraphras'd Out of Horace, the 23d Ode of the 2d Book.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Pope
- First Line:
- When I sigh by my mistress and gaze on those eyes
- Page No:
- pp.407-408
- Poem Title:
- Love's Antidote.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft the reverend dotards cry
- Page No:
- pp.409-410
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh how pleasant is it how sweet
- Page No:
- p.411
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come fill it up and fill it high
- Page No:
- p.412
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First let thy altars smoke with sacred fire
- Page No:
- pp.413-417
- Poem Title:
- From Virgil's 1st Georgick, Beginning at Imprimis venerare Deos, &c. ... Dedicated to Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- Translated into English Verse By H. Sacheverill.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Sacheverell
- First Line:
- In grey haired Celia's withered arms
- Page No:
- pp.419-421
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase on the French.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me not I my time misspend
- Page No:
- pp.422-423
- Poem Title:
- A Song
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Eaton.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Eaton
- First Line:
- Too late alas I must confess
- Page No:
- p.424
- Poem Title:
- Another Song In Imitation of Sir John Eaton's Songs.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Earl of Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Tom and Will were shepherds twain
- Page No:
- pp.425-428
- Poem Title:
- A Song ... On Tom. Killigrew and Will. Murrey.
- Attribution:
- By Sidny Godolphin, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Sidney Godolphin
- First Line:
- Chloe found Amyntas lying
- Page No:
- pp.429-430
- Poem Title:
- Rondelay.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- However tis well that whilst mankind
- Page No:
- pp.431-433
- Poem Title:
- In a Letter to the Honourable Mr. Charles Montague.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Whilst blooming youth and gay delight
- Page No:
- pp.433-436
- Poem Title:
- An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- What charms you have from what high race you sprung
- Page No:
- pp.437-440
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady of Quality's Playing on the Lute.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Fair kind and true a treasure each alone
- Page No:
- p.441
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph On The Lady Whitmore.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ye sacred relics which your marble keep
- Page No:
- pp.442-443
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph, On Sir Palmes Fairborne's Tomb In Westminster-Abby.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Forgive the muse who in unhallowed strains
- Page No:
- pp.444-448
- Poem Title:
- To the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's; On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Man foolish man
- Page No:
- pp.449-455
- Poem Title:
- On Exodus 3. 14. I am that I am. A Pindarique Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Thus having said brave Hector went to see
- Page No:
- pp.456-468
- Poem Title:
- The Last parting Of Hector and Andromache. From The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads.
- Attribution:
- Translated from the Original By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Accept great son of art this faint effect
- Page No:
- sigs.3A2r-3A3r [unpaged]
- Poem Title:
- The Translator To Dr. Tho. Hobbs.
- Attribution:
- The Translator [i.e. Tate]
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- Well has thy fate directed thee to choose
- Page No:
- sigs.3A7r-3A8v [unpaged]
- Poem Title:
- To His Friend, The Writer of the Ensuing Translation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through what adventures this unknown disease
- Page No:
- pp.1-84
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical History Of The French Disease.
- Attribution:
- English'd By Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
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