Miscellany poems: the first part [T117015]

DMI number:

118

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 1.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1702

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T117015

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111943770

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C11

Full Title:

[i]MISCELLANY POEMS:[/i] | The First Part. | [rule] Containing Variety of | NEW TRANSLATIONS | OF THE | Ancient Poets. | Together with Several | ORIGINAL POEMS, | [rule] | [i]By the Most Eminent Hands.[/i] | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]DRYDEN[/i]. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The Third Edition. | | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson[/i], within [i]Gray's-Inn[/i] | Gate next [i]Gray's-Inn[/i] Lane, 1702.

Epigraph:

[i]Et vos,[/i] O Lauri, [i]carpam, & Te, Proxima[/i] Myrte: [i]Sic positae quoniam suaveis miscetis odores.[/i] Virg. [i]Ecl.[/i] 2.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[8], 1-399 [1] pp.

Bibliographic details:

Note on volume number: vol 1/1 of this edition; 1/6 of the complete collection. Some MS annotations to Absalom and Achitophel, showing who the characters represent. Absalom and Achitophel and Virgil's Eclogues have separate titlepages, though pagination and foliation appears consistent with the rest of the volume.

Comments:

Attributions: Some attributions from Contents page rather than from the body of the text.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents pages, A2r-A4v.

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Related People

Editor:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Publish'd by Mr. Dryden'.

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Jacob Tonson'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

All human things are subject to decay

Page No:

pp.1-11

Poem Title:

MacFlecknoe.

Attribution:

By Mr Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Take it as earnest of a faith renewed

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

To The Unknown Author of this Excellent Poem.

Attribution:

Nat. Lee

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

I thought forgive my sin the boasted fire

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

To The Unknown Author of this Admirable Poem.

Attribution:

R. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Hail heaven born muse Hail every sacred page

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

To the Conceal'd Author of this Incomparable Poem.

Attribution:

N. Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

In pious times ere priestcraft did begin

Page No:

pp.25-72

Poem Title:

Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis not for nothing when just heaven does frown

Page No:

pp.73-76

Poem Title:

Part of Virgil's IV. Georgick.

Attribution:

English'd by the Earl of Mulgrave

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give

Page No:

pp.77-83

Poem Title:

The Parting of Sireno and Diana.

Attribution:

English'd by Sir Car. Scrope

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

Now Tarquin the last king did govern Rome

Page No:

pp.84-93

Poem Title:

The Story of Lucretia, Out of Ovid de Fastis. Book II.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go

Page No:

pp.94-96

Poem Title:

On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Those gods the pious ancients did adore

Page No:

pp.97-99

Poem Title:

To Mr. Dryden on his Religio Laici.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

The XXII. Ode of the First Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Those ills your ancestors have done

Page No:

pp.101-104

Poem Title:

The VI. Ode, of the Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Conquered with soft and pleasing charms

Page No:

pp.104-107

Poem Title:

The IV. Ode of the First Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blush not my friend to own the love

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

The IV. Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

If ever any injured power

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The VIII. Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Whilst I was welcome to your heart

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Horace and Lydia. The IX Ode.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

While I remained the darling of your heart

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Horace and Lydia.

Attribution:

English'd by another Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As on the beach sad Ariadne lay

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

The III. Elegy. Of the first Book of Propertius.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Adams

Attributed To:

Mr. Adams

First Line:

Tis but a short but a filthy pleasure

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Out of Petronius Arbiter.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My much loved friend | When thou art from my eyes

Page No:

pp.119-125

Poem Title:

Epistle From Mr. Otway, to Mr. Duke.

Attribution:

From Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

A youth once free and happy now a slave

Page No:

pp.126-128

Poem Title:

A Letter to a Friend.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I praised and loved by the best youth of Rome

Page No:

pp.129-135

Poem Title:

An Elegy by The Wife of St. Elexias (a Nobleman of Rome) complaining on his absence, he having left her on his Wedding Night unenjoy'd, out of a Pious Zeal to go visit the Christian Churches. Written in Latin by Fran. Remond, a Jesuit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Amaryllis love compels my way

Page No:

pp.135-141

Poem Title:

Amaryllis, Or the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, Paraphras'd.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The philters Thestylis and charms prepare

Page No:

pp.142-153

Poem Title:

Pharmaceutria, or the Enchantress.

Attribution:

Translated from Theocritus, by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

O Short no herb no salve was ever found

Page No:

pp.153-160

Poem Title:

The Cyclops. Theocritus Idyll. 11th. ... Inscrib'd to Dr. Short.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke of Cambridge

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Fly swift ye hours ye sluggish minutes fly

Page No:

pp.160-162

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Thou equal partner of the royal bed

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

Spoken, To the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why

Page No:

pp.164-170

Poem Title:

Floriana, A Pastoral upon the Death of her Grace the Dutchess of Southampton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

On a bank beside a willow

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. ... Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

But neither Median groves whose happy soil

Page No:

pp.172-175

Poem Title:

The Praises of Italy out of Virgil's second Georgic.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Verses immortal as my bays I sing

Page No:

pp.175-179

Poem Title:

The Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Then this unwieldy factious town

Page No:

pp.179-181

Poem Title:

Hor. Ode 15. Lib. 2. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

In storms when clouds the moon do hide

Page No:

pp.181-183

Poem Title:

The Sixteenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Then you Mecenas with your train

Page No:

pp.183-185

Poem Title:

The First Epode of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

As Jupiter I made my court in vain

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Epilogue intended to have been spoke by the Lady Henr. Mar. Wentworth when Calisto was Acted at Court.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus to Glaucus spake | Divine Sarpedon since he did not find

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus, in the 12th of Homer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reader preserve thy peace those busy eyes

Page No:

pp.190-192

Poem Title:

An Elegie Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Must noble Hastings immaturely die

Page No:

pp.193-198

Poem Title:

Upon the death of the Lord Hastings.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden, in the year 1649, when at Westminster School

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What art thou O thou new found pain

Page No:

pp.198-204

Poem Title:

Upon Desire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goddess of rhyme that didst inspire

Page No:

pp.204-208

Poem Title:

An Epithalamium Upon the Marriage of Capt. William Bedloe.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

If yet there be a few that take delight

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

A Prologue.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ladies the beardless author of this day

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

An Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

When too much plenty luxury and ease

Page No:

pp.212-215

Poem Title:

Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21. 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

All you who this day's jubilee attend

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

Spoken to Her Royal Highness On her Return from Scotland, In the Year 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Come then at last while anxious nations weep

Page No:

pp.218-221

Poem Title:

To the Duke on his Return. In the Year 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Nat. Lee

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

Since faction ebbs and rogues grow out of fashion

Page No:

pp.222-224

Poem Title:

A Prologue to the King and Queen, Upon the Union of the two Companies, in the Year 1689.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

New ministers when first they get in place

Page No:

pp.224-227

Poem Title:

An Epilogue On the same Occasion.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion

Page No:

pp.228-230

Poem Title:

An Epilogue To Constantine the Great.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How comes it gentlemen that nowadays

Page No:

pp.230-233

Poem Title:

A Prologue Spoken by Mr. Betterton.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

An Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Twas love conducted through the British main

Page No:

pp.236-240

Poem Title:

On the Marriage of George, Prince of Denmark, and the Lady Ann.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

As through the flood to our expecting shore

Page No:

pp.240-242

Poem Title:

Upon the Nuptials of the Prince of Denmark, and the Lady Ann.

Attribution:

By James Compton, Esq

Attributed To:

James Compton

First Line:

If the indulgent muse the only cure

Page No:

pp.242-247

Poem Title:

On the Death of King Charles the Second And the Inauguration of King James the Second.

Attribution:

By Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Ah where protecting providence ah where

Page No:

pp.248-251

Poem Title:

On the Death of King Charles the Second.

Attribution:

By Mr. William Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Long has the tribe of poets on the stage

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

Porlogue [sic] To Lucius Junius Brutus.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

Envy and faction rule the grumbling age

Page No:

pp.254-255

Poem Title:

A Prologue.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

As Ariana young and fair

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

A Song To a Lady, who discovered a new Star in Cassioeia.

Attribution:

The Words and Tune by Mr. C. Dryden

Attributed To:

Charles Dryden

First Line:

Since from my dear Astraea's sight

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the E. of M.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By Mr. Pryor

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

Aenigma

Attribution:

By Mr. Pryor

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

See there the taper's dim and doleful light

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

Verses on the Snuff of a Candle; made in sickness.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

The muses darling pride of all the plains

Page No:

pp.261-264

Poem Title:

The Blasted Swain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At dead of night when rapt in sleep

Page No:

pp.264-266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When great men fall great griefs arise

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

Upon the Duke of Buckingham's Being in Disgrace at Court, in the Year 167?

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To a high hill where never yet stood tree

Page No:

pp.267-303

Poem Title:

The Poet's Complaint of his Muse. Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Theseus O Theseus hark but yet in vain

Page No:

pp.303-307

Poem Title:

Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What to begin would have been madness thought

Page No:

pp.308-310

Poem Title:

To Mr. Creech on his Translation of Lucretius.

Attribution:

By Mr. R. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

What senseless loads have overcharged the press

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

To his Friend the Translator of Father Simon.

Attribution:

By Mr. R. D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse

Page No:

pp.315-322

Poem Title:

The First Eclogue.

Attribution:

By John Caryll, Esq

Attributed To:

John Caryll

First Line:

A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

Page No:

pp.323-327

Poem Title:

The Second Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Young Corydon hard fate an humble swain

Page No:

pp.328-332

Poem Title:

The Second Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Tell me Dametas tell whose sheep these are

Page No:

pp.333-341

Poem Title:

The Third Eclogue. Or Palemon.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Sicilian muse begin a loftier strain

Page No:

pp.342-346

Poem Title:

The Fourth Eclogue. Pollio.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Mopsus since chance does us together bring

Page No:

pp.347-354

Poem Title:

The Fifth Eclogue. Daphnis.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Duke

Attributed To:

Richard Duke

First Line:

I first of Romans stooped to rural strains

Page No:

pp.355-364

Poem Title:

The Sixth Eclogue. Silenus.

Attribution:

English'd by the Earl of Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

While Daphnis sat beneath a whispering shade

Page No:

pp.365-369

Poem Title:

The Seventh Eclogue.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Adams

Attributed To:

Thomas Adams

First Line:

Sad Damon's and Alphesiboeus muse

Page No:

pp.370-376

Poem Title:

The Eighth Eclogue. Pharmaceutria.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

Mr. Stafford

First Line:

I Damon and Alpheus loves recite

Page No:

pp.376-381

Poem Title:

The same Eclogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast

Page No:

pp.382-387

Poem Title:

The Ninth Eclogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Sicilian nymph assist my mournful strains

Page No:

pp.388-393

Poem Title:

The Tenth Eclogue. Gallus.

Attribution:

English'd by Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

One labour more O Arethusa yield

Page No:

pp.394-399

Poem Title:

The Last Eclogue, Translated, or rather Imitated, in the Year 1666.

Attribution:

By Sir William Temple, Bar.

Attributed To:

Sir William Temple