Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]
- DMI number:
- 632
- Publication Date:
- 1739
- ESTC number:
- T75653
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115125626
- Full Title:
- MISCELLANEOUS | WORKS | Of his late Excellency | [i]Matthew Prior[/i], Esq; | Consisting of | POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | [i]VIZ[/i]. | EPISTLES, TALES, SATIRES, EPIGRAMS, &[i]c[/i]. | With some Select LATIN PERFORMANCES. | Now first published from His | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. | [rule] | Revised by Himself, and Copied fair for the Press, | By Mr. ADRIAN DRIFT, His Executor. | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed by S. POWELL, | For G. RISK at the [i]Shakespear's-head[/i], G. EWING | at the [i]Angel[/i] and [i]Bible[/i], W. SMITH, at the [i]Hercu- | les[/i], Booksellers in [i]Dame-street[/i], and G. FAULKNER, | in [i]Essex-street[/i], MDCC XXXIX.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- VERSES | SENT TO | Mr. [i]PRIOR[/i]. On p.67 the digit '7' has been inserted upside-down by typesetter. ESTC notes that a variant issue has vi,[7],10-308p.
- Comments:
- MISCELLANY GENRE: Posthumous miscellany dedicated to Matthew Prior. CONTENTS: Dedication (4pp.) to Lionel, Duke of Dorset, signed by J. Bancks; 'Poems on Several Occasions' by Prior pp.[8]-126; 'Miscellanea' pp.[128]-136; 'Inscriptiones, &c.' pp.[138]-148; 'Solomon' pp.[150]-252; Latin verse p.253; 'Verses Sent to Mr. Prior' pp.[256]-290; Translations by Prior pp.291-303; letters to Prior by several hands pp.303-308. Prose pp.303-305. French verse, p.81, p.104. Latin verse, pp.[128]-147, pp.[150]-252, p.253, pp.279-80. NOTES: Although most poems are by Prior, a number of poems by other authors (including Dryden, Thomas Stanley, Harley, and Buckhurst) are included. There is also a collection of commendatory 'Verses Sent to Mr. Prior' from pp.[256]-290. Also issued as part of: Miscellaneous works .. In two volumes Dublin, 1740 (ESTC).
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [N35208]
- Publication Date:
- 1740
- ESTC No:
- N35208
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Author:
- Adrian Drift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Copied fair for the Press, By Mr. Adrian Drift, His Executor'.
- Dedicatee:
- Lionel Cranfield Sackville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- S. Powell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- G. Ewing
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- G. Risk
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- George Faulkner
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Stay nymph he cried I follow not a foe
- Page No:
- p.[8], p.10, p.12, p.14
- Poem Title:
- Daphne and Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Translated By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Abate fair fugitive abate thy speed
- Page No:
- p.9, p.11, p.13, pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- Daphne and Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Imitated by Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Heavy O Lord on me thy judgments lie
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- Considerations on part of the 88th Psalm. A College Exercise. 1690.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior, Esq
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Pish lord I wish this prologue was but Greek
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, spoken by Lord Buckhurst, at Westminster-School, at a Representation of Mr. Dryden's Cleomenes, The Spartan Hero. At Christmas, 1695.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The town which Louis bought Nassau reclaims
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- On the Taking of Namur, 1692.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix
- Page No:
- pp.20-22
- Poem Title:
- Written at the Hague, in the Year 1696.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Lords knights and squires the numerous band
- Page No:
- pp.22-24
- Poem Title:
- To a Child of Quality five Years old, the Author forty, 1704.*
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Two mice dear boy of genteel fashion
- Page No:
- pp.24-29
- Poem Title:
- The Mice, A Tale. To Mr. Adrian Drift.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Sphinx was a monster that would eat
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Two Riddles, 1710.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Of Nero tyrant petty king
- Page No:
- pp.31-45
- Poem Title:
- The Viceroy. A Ballad. To the Tune of The Lady Isabella's Tragedy: Or: The Step-Mother's Cruelty.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The fox an actor's vizard found
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Reading ends in melancholy
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- A Song set by Mr. Abel.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When Nell given over by the doctor was dying
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When you with high dutch heeren dine
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- Upon this passage in Scaligeriana.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- O death how thou spoilst the best projects of life
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- O dearest daughter of two dearest friends
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Application of the Turtle and Sparrow.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- It oft to many has successful been
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- Cupid in Ambush.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Haste my Nannette
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When hungry wolves had trespassed on the fold
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Written in Imitation of a Greek Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Reader I was born and cried
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- On a Fart, let in the House of Commons.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When Jove lay blessed in his Alcmena's charms
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Consummation. To a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- You madam may with safety go
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- The Fortune-Teller. To a young Lady in search of her Destiny.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Prometheus forming Mr Day
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Gilles Menage
- First Line:
- Will Piggot must to Coxwould go
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- The Wandering Pilgrim. Humbly addressed to Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart. Post-Master, and Pay-Master-General to Queen Anne.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Thus to the muses spoke the Cyprian dame
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- The Advice of Venus.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- Cupid turned Plowman. From the Greek of Moschus.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Gilles Menage
- First Line:
- O with what woes am I oppressed
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Husband and Wife. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- No I'll endure ten thousand deaths
- Page No:
- pp.62-64
- Poem Title:
- Chast Florimel.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Whilst I in prison on a court look down
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- To Fortune. Another
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The sturdy man if he in love obtains
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- Partial Fame.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Let others from the town retire
- Page No:
- pp.65-67
- Poem Title:
- Non Pareil.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Whither would my passion run
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Honour I say or honest fame
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Upon Honour. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- That all from Adam first began
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- The Old Gentry.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- The Incurable. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- The Insatiable Priest.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When Willis of Ephraim heard Rochester preach
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Doctors Differ. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Pontius who loves you know a joke
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- So good a wife doth Lissy make
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- Cautious Alice.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Lysander talks extremely well
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Of thy judicious muse's sense
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- To a Poet of Quality, Praising the Lady Hinchinbroke.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- An Enigma.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Downward was the wheeling bear
- Page No:
- p.76, p.78.
- Poem Title:
- Love's Night-Walk. From Anacreon, Ode III.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stanley
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Stanley
- First Line:
- At dead of night when stars appear
- Page No:
- p.77, p.79.
- Poem Title:
- Cupid Turned Stroller. From Anacreon, Ode III.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Formed half beneath and half above the earth
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- An Enigma.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Truth Told at Last. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Why thus from the plain does my shepherdess rove
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- A French Song.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Two Beggars Dsputing [sic] their Right to an Oyster they had Found; a Lawyer thus decides the Cause.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Human Life.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Now how shall I do with my love and my pride
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- A Case Stated.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- I my dear was born today
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- On my Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- As doctors give physic by way of prevention
- Page No:
- pp.85-87
- Poem Title:
- For my own Monument.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- My noble lovely little Peggy
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret-Cavendish-Holles-Harley.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Pen ink and wax and paper send
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- To my Lord Harley. Extempore.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- I who on rude unpolished reed
- Page No:
- pp.88-91
- Poem Title:
- On the 11th Day of February, the Anniversary Birth-Day of the Right Honourable Lady Henrietta-Cavendish-Holles-Harley, and her Daughter, 1718-19.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Harley
- Attributed To:
- Robert Harley
- First Line:
- Once on a time in sunshine weather
- Page No:
- pp.91-93
- Poem Title:
- Truth and Falshood [sic]. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Whilst others proclaim
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- Nelly's Picture. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Ladies to you with pleasure we submit
- Page No:
- pp.95-97
- Poem Title:
- Prologue for Delia's Play.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What all our sex in one sad hour undone
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- To Delia on Her Play.
- Attribution:
- Verses, to the Author, written by the Right Honourable John, Marquis of Normandy, late Duke of Buckinghamshire, which, being omitted in his Lordship's Works, I shall here give the Reader, as a truly valuable Curiosity
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- It was the fate of an unhappy swain
- Page No:
- pp.99-102
- Poem Title:
- Amaryllis. A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- I know that fortune long has wanted sight
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Upon Playing at Ombre, with Two Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soft cupid wanton amorous boy
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Cupid's Promise. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Three nymphs glad Damon's heart divide
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Written at Easthamstead, to Sir William Trumbull's three Nieces.
- Attribution:
- Sir Henry Sheers, Bart.
- Attributed To:
- Henry [Henry Sheers] Sheres
- First Line:
- Thou tyrant god of love give over
- Page No:
- pp.107-111
- Poem Title:
- Loving one I never saw.
- Attribution:
- W. Walsh
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Phyllis if you will not agree
- Page No:
- pp.112-116
- Poem Title:
- The Antiquated Coquet.
- Attribution:
- This excellent Satire is supposed to have been written by the Earl of Dorset, on an Irish Lady named Clanbrazil, in the Reign of King Charles II. The MS is signed B. i.e. we presume Buckhurst
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Farewell ye shady walks and fountains
- Page No:
- pp.116-119
- Poem Title:
- Dorinda.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- If absence so much racks my charmer's heart
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- To Leonora.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Cease Leonora cease to mourn
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- To Leonora. Encore.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- While mad Ophelia we lament
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- On a Pretty Madwoman.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- What a tedious day is past
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Absence.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The circling months begin this day
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- The New-Year's Gift to Phyllis.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- For God's sake nay dear sir
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Jove once resolved the females to degrade
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- Snuff. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- You need not thus so often pray
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- To Celia. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Lay not the pain so near your heart
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Friend who had a Pain in his Left-Side.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- This lamp which Prior to his Harley gave
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- Engraven on Three Sides of an Antique-Lamp, given by me to the Right Honourable the Lord Harley. | M.P.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The first great man who made the world his own
- Page No:
- pp.257-260
- Poem Title:
- To Matthew Prior, Esq; On his Carmen Saeculare, 1700.
- Attribution:
- By James Marshall, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- James Marshall
- First Line:
- When Prior's muse prepares to sing
- Page No:
- pp.261-263
- Poem Title:
- To Matthew Prior, Esq; on his excellent Carmen Saeculare.
- Attribution:
- By A.T. Scholar of St John's College, Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let Britain now at last no more complain
- Page No:
- pp.263-266
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Prior, on his excellent Poems, 1709.*
- Attribution:
- G. Sewell. Aetat 18.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- The nymph whose virgin heart thy charms have taught
- Page No:
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Prior from a Lady unknown.
- Attribution:
- Anne, Countess of Winchelsea. [Footnote]
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Whilst Harley with more near approaches blessed
- Page No:
- pp.267-275
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Mr. Prior, on the new Edition, of his Works, in Folio, 1718.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As bards of old in nobler lays could sing
- Page No:
- pp.275-278
- Poem Title:
- To the Honourable Matthew Prior, Esq.
- Attribution:
- Cecini humillimeque obtuli, Geo. Waldron. Olim Coll. Reg. Oxon, 1718
- Attributed To:
- George Waldron
- First Line:
- Receive great bard thanks from the meanest muse
- Page No:
- pp.278-279
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Prior from St. John's.
- Attribution:
- By J. Newcome, Fellow of that College [i.e. of St John's, Cambridge]
- Attributed To:
- J. Newcome
- First Line:
- Oft have I thought great bard in my poor cell
- Page No:
- pp.280-281
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Prior, on the Book of Ecclesiastes, and his own Poem, called Solomon, January 20, 1719-20.
- Attribution:
- Francis Peck, M.A.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Peck
- First Line:
- Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle
- Page No:
- pp.281-287
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of Solomon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Maro and Horace equally divine
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- Written under the Picture of the Honourable Mr. Prior, July 21, 1720. His Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- A. Drift
- Attributed To:
- Adrian Drift
- First Line:
- Wit sense and learning massacred of late
- Page No:
- pp.288-289
- Poem Title:
- On a Report of Mr. Prior's Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O dearest master father friend
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- To the Honourable Mr. Prior, presented to him on his Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Drift
- Attributed To:
- Adrian Drift
- First Line:
- To see this solemn scene this pomp of woe
- Page No:
- p.290
- Poem Title:
- On Seeing the Funeral of Mr. Prior, in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attribution:
- A. Drift
- Attributed To:
- Adrian Drift
- First Line:
- I see the fetters I am doomed to wear
- Page No:
- pp.[291]-295
- Poem Title:
- The Fourth Elegy of the second Book of Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Not that I may in worldly wealth abound
- Page No:
- pp.295-297
- Poem Title:
- The Third Elegy of the Third Book of Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- No woman ever shall draw me from your arms
- Page No:
- pp.298-300
- Poem Title:
- The Twelfth Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullus. To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Chloe since you a handsome woman are
- Page No:
- pp.300-303
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Amours, Book III, Elegy III, Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Down-Hall well seated near a wood
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Contained in a letter signed 'John Morley'
- Attributed To:
- John Morley
- First Line:
- When man's good-genius viewed the world around
- Page No:
- pp.306-308
- Poem Title:
- To John Morley, Esq; of Halstead in Essex, on his Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- George Waldron
- Attributed To:
- George Waldron
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