Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R228541]

DMI number:

1648

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 3.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1693

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R228541

EEBO/ECCO link:

Not in EEBO

Shelfmark:

University of Oxford, English Faculty Library, XJ63.1[Mis.3][1693].

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

Pagination:

[40], 1-468 pp. (9 mispaginated as 6, 142 as 14, 295 as 296, 315 as 215), [16], 1-78 pp.

Bibliographic details:

Reissue of R122, with the leaves containing 'Syphilis' and its prefatory matter ([16], 1-84 pp.) removed and replaced with another printing of the same texts ([16], 1-78 pp.). 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). EFL [XJ63.1] is missing half title. SIGNATURES: gatherings A(8-1), 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. 3B1r, 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. (2) 'The Bookseller To The Reader', signed 'Jacob Tonson', sigs B7r-B8r. (3) 'The Contents', sigs b1r-b4v.

References:

NCBEL 338 (1693)

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Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

Edward Radcliffe

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Printer:

Robert Everingham

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Identification from ESTC.

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

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 Mr. 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.138-14 [i.e. 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. [preceding poem unattributed]

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:

Thomas Sprat

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:

George Cholmondeley

William Savile

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:

George Cholmondeley

William Savile

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 Draghi

John 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

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:

George Granville

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 Algerine 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:

Strephon hath fashion wit and youth

Page No:

pp.403-404

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Written 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.1-78

Poem Title:

Syphilis.

Attribution:

English'd By Mr. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate