Luctus britannici or the tears of the British muses for the death of Dryden [R21041]

DMI number:

164

Publication Date:

1700

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R21041

EEBO/ECCO link:

EEBO: Wing / L3451; Wing / 216:08

Shelfmark:

BL 11630.g.18.(1.)

Full Title:

[i]LUCTUS BRITANNICI:[/i] | [rule] | OR THE | TEARS | OF THE | British Muses; | FOR THE | DEATH | OF | [i]JOHN DRYDEN[/i], Esq; | LATE | Poet Laureat to Their Majesties, K. [i]Charles[/i] | and K. [i]James[/i] the Second. | WRITTEN | By the most Eminent Hands in the two Famous [i]Univer- | sities[/i], and by several Others. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for [i]Henry Playford[/i], in the [i]Temple-Change[/i], and [i]Abel Roper[/i], at | the [i]Black-Boy[/i] in [i]Fleet-street:[/i] And Sold by [i]John Nutt[/i], near [i]Statio- | ner[/i]'s-[i]Hall.[/i] 1700.

Epigraph:

[i]For ev'n when Death dissolve's our Humane Frame, | The Soul return's to Heav'n, from whence it came,[/i] | Earth [i]keep's the Body,[/i] Verse [i]preserves the Fame.[/i] | Mr. [i]Dryden,[/i] in his Epistle to his Kinsman, in his [i]Fables Ancient and Modern.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of elegies, Topical miscellany, Memorial collection, and Collection of poems about subject/person

Format:

Folio

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[4], 1-55, [1], 1-24 p.

Bibliographic details:

Plate facing title page. There are two parts, each starting at p. 1. The second part has no separate title page in BL 11630.g.18.(1.) BL 11630.g.18.(1.) bound together with other works commemorating Dryden. Sheets K-P are set with much smaller type than sheets B-I. Mispagination: 42 misnumbered as 43; 43 misnumbered as 42,

Comments:

Contents: Part 2 contains poems in Latin.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication 'to William Stephens, esq; of Barton in the Isle of Wight' signed 'Henry Playford' and 'Abel Roper'. Address from 'The booksellers to the reader' signed 'H. P.' and 'A. R.'

References:

Case 219

Related People

Author:

Abel Roper

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Henry Playford, in the Temple-Change, and Abel Roper, at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street: And Sold by John Nutt, near Stationer's-Hall'

Author:

Henry Playford

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Henry Playford, in the Temple-Change, and Abel Roper, at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street: And Sold by John Nutt, near Stationer's-Hall'

Author:

John Nutt

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Henry Playford, in the Temple-Change, and Abel Roper, at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street: And Sold by John Nutt, near Stationer's-Hall'

Dedicatee:

William Stephens

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'To William Stephens Esq; Of Barton, in the Isle of Wight'

Content/Publication

First Line:

When kings or poets greater monarchs die

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

To the Memory of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

Ch. Vi.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though well we know this monument we frame

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

On this Collection of Poems upon the Death of Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

X. Z.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adieu harmonious Dryden and receive

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Dryden

Attribution:

By a Person of Quality

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst every tongue and every pen's employed

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

To the Memory of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

W. Worts.

Attributed To:

William Worts

First Line:

On Jordan's banks the gazing prophets stood

Page No:

pp.9-11

Poem Title:

On the Memory of the Great Dryden.

Attribution:

A. M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dead no tis all mistake he cannot die

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Dryden

Attribution:

Hen. Hoyle, A. M. Trin. Col. Cantab.

Attributed To:

Henry Hoyle

First Line:

Let others when some mighty man they'd praise

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. John Dryden

Attribution:

B. K. Trin. Col. Cantab. Alum.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Disconsolate Britannia mourning sate

Page No:

pp.13-15

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the truly Honoured John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

By a Young Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With floods of tears and with unbounded grief

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

To the Memory of John Dryden Esq;

Attribution:

Richard Burridge, Gent.

Attributed To:

Richard Burridge

First Line:

Greece had a Homer Rome a Virgil lost

Page No:

pp.16-20

Poem Title:

To the Memory of John Dryden, Esq

Attribution:

Henry Hall

Attributed To:

Henry Hall

First Line:

Tell me Alexis tell thy faithful swain

Page No:

pp.20-22

Poem Title:

A Pastoral, On the Death of Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

T. A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The justest grief that can on fate attend

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

An Essay on the Death of Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when plebeians at a monarch's death

Page No:

pp.25-30

Poem Title:

An Ode, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

By a Young Lady. S. F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When now at length the great Apollo's dead

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of Mr. Dryden

Attribution:

By Mr. Digby Cotes, of Magdalen-Hall, Oxon. A Young Gentleman, Sixteen Years Old.

Attributed To:

Digby Cotes

First Line:

Farewell oh more than Greece or Rome could boast

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

C. H---ton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celestial muse whose godhead could inspire

Page No:

pp.34-36

Poem Title:

To the Memory of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell thou chiefest of the sons of fame

Page No:

pp.36-39

Poem Title:

On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

Robert Gould

Attributed To:

Robert Gould

First Line:

Dryden and dead what echo did I hear

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

J. Blyth. One of the Senior Scholars in Merchant Taylors School, Aged 15.

Attributed To:

J. Blyth

First Line:

The glorious age had scarce begun

Page No:

pp.40-42[i.e. 43]

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of John Dryden, Esq; A Pindarique.

Attribution:

John Froud

Attributed To:

John Froud

First Line:

The careful business of the day was done

Page No:

pp.42[i.e. 43]--46

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the much Lamented Death of John Dryden, Esq; the famous English Poet.

Attribution:

R--- Key

Attributed To:

R. Key

First Line:

Is Dryden dead in whining cantos mourn

Page No:

pp.46-48

Poem Title:

On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

J. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nay sure tis he the living colours move

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by the Sight of Mr. Dryden's Picture at Sir Godfry Knellers, Drawn with the Bays in his Hand.

Attribution:

B. Buckeridge

Attributed To:

Baynbrigg Buckeridge

First Line:

Great Dryden's dead and what bold daring muse

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

Anonymus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To living wits all nations else are kind

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

On the Great Preparations made for the Funeral of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

P. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though pens like yours and tongues alone should dare

Page No:

pp.51-55

Poem Title:

To Dr. Samuel Garth, occasioned by the much Lamented Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Death thou hast struck but tis in vain to try

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

Upon the Hearing of the Death of John Dryden, Esq;

Attribution:

N. Collins

Attributed To:

N. Collins