New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [T131574]

DMI number:

359

Aliases

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Lettres Portugaises

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1713

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T131574

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB126571955

Shelfmark:

BL - c.143.a.21

Full Title:

New Miscellaneous | POEMS. | With Five | [i]Love-Letters[/i] | FROM | A [g]Nun[/g] to a [g]Cavalier.[/g] | [rule] | Done into Verse. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]London[/i] printed, and are to be Sold by | [i]J. Morphew[/i] near [i]Stationers-hall[/i]. 1713.

Epigraph:

[i]Nil dulcius est istoc amare, aut | amari, praeter hoc ipsum amare | & amari[/i].

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection and Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[14], [3]-129. pp.

Bibliographic details:

'The five love-letters' and the 'New miscellaneous poems' have separate titlepages; the pagination and register are continuous. (p. [1]): FIVE | [i]Love-Letters[/i] | From a | NUN | To | [g]A Cavalier[/g] | [rule] | [i]Done into Verse[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i] | Printed in the Year 1713. (p. [45]): NEW | [i]Miscellaneous[/i] | POEMS. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i] | Printed in the Year 1713.

Comments:

Contents: 'The five love-letters' are a verse translation of the 'Lettres portugaises' ascribed to Lavergne de Guilleragues.

Other matter:

'Preface to the Reader' [3pp.]; 'The Contents' [5pp.]; 'Errata' [1p.];

Related Miscellanies

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [N41774] [*IR*]

Publication Date:

1718

ESTC No:

N41774

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [N41775] [*IR*]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

N41775

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [T186958]

Publication Date:

1713

ESTC No:

T186958

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [T186959]

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC No:

T186959

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with five love letters from a nun to a cavalier [vol I] [T179107]

Publication Date:

1716

ESTC No:

T179107

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems with the cavalier's answers to the nun's five love letters [vol II] [T179107]

Publication Date:

1716

ESTC No:

T179107

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

New miscellaneous poems, with the cavalier's answers to the nun's five love-letters. In verse. [ECCO] [N20370]

Publication Date:

1718

ESTC No:

N20370

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Sold by:

John Morphew

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'London printed, and are to be Sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-hall.'

Translated from:

Guilleragues||Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne||vicomte de

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

See ESTC.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Oh the unhappy joys which love contains

Page No:

pp.3-9

Poem Title:

Love-Letters from A Nun to A Cavalier. Letter I.

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First Line:

Alas it is impossible to tell

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pp.10-15

Poem Title:

Letter II. From a Nun to a Cavalier.

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First Line:

What will become of miserable me

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pp.16-21

Poem Title:

Letter III. From a Nun to a Cavalier.

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First Line:

Ye gods the torments that from love arise

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pp.22-34

Poem Title:

Letter IV. From a Nun to a Cavalier.

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First Line:

I hope by the different air of this you'll find

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pp.35-43

Poem Title:

Letter V. From a Nun to a Cavalier.

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First Line:

At Cynthia's feet I sighed I prayed

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Young Damon once the happiest swain

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pp.49-50

Poem Title:

The Advice.

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First Line:

Celia you strive in vain to hide

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pp.51-52

Poem Title:

To Caelia, Understanding she talk'd kindly of him in her Sleep.

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First Line:

Though I a thousand resolutions frame

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pp.53-55

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

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First Line:

As shipwrecked men upon the angry seas

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

To Miranda.

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First Line:

Damon a young deceitful swain

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pp.58-60

Poem Title:

The Punishment.

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First Line:

This book to you will useless be

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

Writ in a young Lady's Prayer-book.

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First Line:

Phillis has each enchanting art

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

On Phillis.

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First Line:

Madam | Your beateous charms are to perfection grown

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Advice To Miranda.

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First Line:

See with what majesty she goes

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pp.65-67

Poem Title:

On Caelia.

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First Line:

The painter begs that you'd excuse his art

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Sent a young Lady, with her Picture.

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First Line:

Thou mighty god thou ruler of mankind

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

To Love.

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First Line:

Sure heaven will be propitious to our prayers

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

On seeing Cynthia at Church.

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First Line:

Madam | Should I be silent should I still conceal

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pp.72-73

Poem Title:

To Mrs. -

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First Line:

Permit a youth your charms did first subdue

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pp.74-76

Poem Title:

To Lucinda.

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First Line:

Haste Phoebus haste and quickly run

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pp.77-79

Poem Title:

Enjoyment.

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First Line:

Be - ever blessed twas in that place

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pp.80-82

Poem Title:

On the same.

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First Line:

Phillis why should you me disdain

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pp.82-83

Poem Title:

To Phillis.

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First Line:

Whenever I ask my love I'm sure

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

To the same.

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First Line:

Phillis forbear to use your cruelty

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pp.85-86

Poem Title:

To the same.

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First Line:

Chloe is handsome brisk and gay

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

On Chloe.

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First Line:

As Damon who had hardly sped

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

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First Line:

That stately lovely charming shade

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pp.89-90

Poem Title:

On Chloe Mask'd.

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First Line:

I went to see my dear but she

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

The Visit.

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First Line:

Damon for love still meets disdain

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pp.92-93

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

I swore myself a mortal foe

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pp.94-95

Poem Title:

The Resolution.

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First Line:

Of all the nymphs that trod the flowery green

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pp.96-98

Poem Title:

On Caelia.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In sleep dissolved upon my bed

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pp.98-99

Poem Title:

The Disappointment.

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First Line:

Tell me Lucinda prithee tell me how

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pp.100-102

Poem Title:

To Lucinda.

Attribution:

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First Line:

He's gone the youth is mounted up on high

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pp.102-105

Poem Title:

On the Death of Generous Strephon.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While you my friend enjoy the rural air

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pp.105-107

Poem Title:

To a Friend in the Country.

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First Line:

In ancient times when Rome's fat priests did reign

Page No:

pp.108-113

Poem Title:

The Nunnery.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The bright Miranda is the nymph I prize

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

To Miranda.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In Babylon whose lofty walls were built

Page No:

pp.115-122

Poem Title:

The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe, From the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamoph.

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First Line:

When great Augustus by decrees of fate

Page No:

pp.123-129

Poem Title:

The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete, From the XIVth Book of Ovid's Metamorph. To Caelia.

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