Parnassus Biceps [R204146]

DMI number:

1764

Publication Date:

1656

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R204146

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99863834

Shelfmark:

EEBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

And now more great then when you were

Page No:

pp. 1-3

Poem Title:

The Temper. UPON Dr. JUXON Bishop of LONDON

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

You that profane our windows with a tongue

Page No:

pp. 3-12

Poem Title:

A Poem, In defence of the decent Ornaments of Christ-Church Oxon, occasioned by a Banbury brother, who called them Idolatries

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh wound us not with this sad tale forbear

Page No:

pp. 12-16

Poem Title:

An ELEGIE, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Earles

First Line:

If there be hap any man that dares

Page No:

pp. 16-18

Poem Title:

On a wht blemish in his Mistresse eye

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Holland

First Line:

The mighty zeal which thou hast late put on

Page No:

pp. 18-21

Poem Title:

To Mr Hammon Parson of Beudly For pulling down the May pole

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Fie Schollars fie have you such thirsty souls

Page No:

pp. 22-23

Poem Title:

On Mr Sambourne, sometime Sherife of Oxford-shire

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Stone

First Line:

Our Oxford Sheriffe of late is grown so wise

Page No:

p. 23

Poem Title:

Upon the Sheriffs Beere [part of previous poem]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Stone

First Line:

I went from England into France

Page No:

pp. 24-28

Poem Title:

A journey into France

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Goodwyn

First Line:

Why though I be of a prodigious wast

Page No:

pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

BEN: JOHNSON To Burlace

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Keep station nature and rest Heaven sure

Page No:

p. 30

Poem Title:

Upon the death of Prince HENRY

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Behold this little Volume here enrold

Page No:

pp. 31-32

Poem Title:

On the BIBLE

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

View this large Gallery faced with mats and say

Page No:

pp. 32-34

Poem Title:

Upon some piecesof work in York House

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Lewis

First Line:

Ye glorious trifles of the East

Page No:

pp. 34-5

Poem Title:

Sir Henry Wotton on Q. ELIZABETH

Attribution:

Sir Henry Wotton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well fare the Muses which in well chimb'd

Page No:

pp. 36-8

Poem Title:

On the Princes birth

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Go happy Paper by command

Page No:

pp. 39-40

Poem Title:

A Letter to his Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse

Page No:

pp. 40-42

Poem Title:

On the Earle of Pembroke's Death

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

Love give me leave to serve thee and be wise

Page No:

pp. 43-44

Poem Title:

Upon his chast Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Such as your Fathers Pictures that we doe

Page No:

pp. 45-46

Poem Title:

On a Painters handsome Daughter

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Even so dead Hector thrice was triumphd on

Page No:

pp. 46-47

Poem Title:

To Dr Price writing Anniversaries on Prince HENRY

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Nor is it grieved grave you the memory

Page No:

pp. 47-48

Poem Title:

A Reply upon an Answer to the former Copy

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

O thou deformed unwomanlike desease

Page No:

pp. 48-49

Poem Title:

On a Lady that dyed of the small pox

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Sing and be merry King Charles is come back

Page No:

pp. 50-53

Poem Title:

Upon the Kings Returne to the City of London when he came last thether from Scotland and was entertained there by the Lord Mayor

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let abler pens commend those leaves whose fame

Page No:

pp. 54-54

Poem Title:

Upon the Kings-Book bound up in a Cover coloured with His Blood

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

Come grand Apollo tun my Lyre

Page No:

pp. 55-57

Poem Title:

Upon the Nuptials of John Talbot Esquire, and Mistresse Elizabeth Kite

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By this large margent did the Poet mean

Page No:

pp. 57-58

Poem Title:

Upon Aglaura Printed in Folio

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

Wake my Adonis doe not die

Page No:

pp. 59-60

Poem Title:

Venus lachrimans

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Hear me as if thy eares had palate Jack

Page No:

pp. 60-63

Poem Title:

An Ode in the praise of Sack

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Enter and see this tomb Sirs doe not fear

Page No:

p. 63

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on some bottles of Sack and Claret laid in sand

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

Her for a Mistresse would I faine enjoy

Page No:

p. 64

Poem Title:

How to choose a Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Behold those faire eyes in whose sight

Page No:

pp. 64-65

Poem Title:

Upon a Picture

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry Blount

First Line:

You Ladies that wear Cypresse vailes

Page No:

p. 65

Poem Title:

On Ladies Attire

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Black Cypresse vailes are shrowds of night

Page No:

p. 66

Poem Title:

The Answer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Grange

First Line:

A Beauty smoother then the Ivory plaine

Page No:

p. 67

Poem Title:

On a Gentlewoman that had the Small-Pox

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Hide not your sprouting lip nor kill

Page No:

pp. 67-68

Poem Title:

On a faire Gentlewomans blistered lip

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Keep on your mask and hide your eye| For if you let me live I dye

Page No:

pp. 68-70

Poem Title:

To his Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

William Strode

First Line:

Why slight you her whom I approve

Page No:

pp. 70-71

Poem Title:

A lover to one dispraising his Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Whatsoere birds in groves are bred

Page No:

pp. 71-72

Poem Title:

On the death of a faire Gentlewomans Robin-redbrest

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Meerely for death to grieve and mourne

Page No:

pp. 72-73

Poem Title:

On the death of Sir Tho: Pelham

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

When whispering straines with creeping wind

Page No:

pp. 74-75

Poem Title:

Of Musick

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow red

Page No:

p. 75

Poem Title:

To his Mistresse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Baker

William Strode

First Line:

If shadows be a Pictures excellence

Page No:

pp. 75-77

Poem Title:

On a black Gentlewoman

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Walton Poole

First Line:

I saw faire Cloris walk alone

Page No:

pp. 77-78

Poem Title:

On a Gentlewoman walking in the Snow

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Within a fleece of silent waters drowned

Page No:

p. 78

Poem Title:

Upon one dead in the snow

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Within this grave there is a grave intombd

Page No:

pp. 79-80

Poem Title:

On a woman dyng in travell the child unborne

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Ill busied man why shouldst thou take such care

Page No:

p. 80

Poem Title:

On Man

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Tell me you anti-Saints why glasse

Page No:

p. 81

Poem Title:

On Faireford Windows

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Be silent you still musick of the sphears

Page No:

p. 82

Poem Title:

On a Gentlewoman playing on the Lute

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

When I do love I would notwishto speed

Page No:

pp. 82-83

Poem Title:

On Love

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Vaughan

First Line:

I hold the faith

Page No:

p. 83

Poem Title:

The Catholick

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

I know no paint of Poetry

Page No:

pp. 84-86

Poem Title:

On Faireford windowes

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Marry and love thy Flavia for sh

Page No:

pp. 86-88

Poem Title:

On the praise of an ill-favourd Gentlewoman

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

The most insulting tyrant can but be

Page No:

pp. 88-89

Poem Title:

Upon Heavens best Image, hs faire and vertuous Mistresse M.S.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Faire boy alasse why fliest thou me

Page No:

p. 91 [90]

Poem Title:

The black maid to the faire boy

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry Reynolds

First Line:

Black girle complaine not that I fly

Page No:

pp. 91-92 [90-91]

Poem Title:

His Answer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

Read faire maid and know the heat

Page No:

p. 92 [91]

Poem Title:

Verses sent to a Lady, which she sending back unread, were returned with this inscription

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Morley

First Line:

On a day 'tis in thy power

Page No:

pp. 93-94 [92-93]

Poem Title:

The Verses

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Morley

First Line:

He thats imprisoned in this narrow room

Page No:

p. 95 [94]

Poem Title:

Barclay his Epitaph

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My limbs were weary and my head opprest

Page No:

pp. 94-95 [93-94]

Poem Title:

The Nightingale

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Morley

First Line:

So soft streams meet so streams with glader smiles

Page No:

pp. 96-97 [95-97]

Poem Title:

A welcome to Sack

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Robert Herrick

First Line:

Not kiss by Jove I must and make impression

Page No:

pp. 97-100

Poem Title:

A Paradox on the praise of a painted face

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Orpheus sweetly did complain

Page No:

pp. 100-101

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Griefs prodigals where are you unthrifts wher

Page No:

pp. 101-102

Poem Title:

Upon Mr. Hoptons death

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry Halswell

First Line:

Am I once more blest with a grace so high

Page No:

pp. 102-104

Poem Title:

On his Mistresse eye

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome abroad o welcome from your bed

Page No:

pp. 104-106

Poem Title:

To Dr. Griffith heald of a strange cure by Bernard Wright of Oxford

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp. 107-110

Poem Title:

The Liberty and Requiem of an imprisoned Royalist

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Roger L'Estrange

First Line:

Well well 'tis true

Page No:

pp110-112 To his imperious Mistresse

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

When I pass Paul's and travel on the walk

Page No:

pp. 112-113

Poem Title:

On Dr. Ravis Bishop of London

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Because of fleshy mould we be

Page No:

pp. 114-115

Poem Title:

On Dr. Langton

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Thou that by ruine do'st repair

Page No:

pp. 115-116

Poem Title:

To the Bell-Founder of great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

What mystery is this that I should find

Page No:

pp. 117-118

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman, that kissing his Mistresse left blood upon her

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

No spring nor summers beauty hath such grace

Page No:

pp. 118-119

Poem Title:

On an aged Gentlewoman

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Farewell fair Saint may not the Seas and wind

Page No:

p. 120

Poem Title:

On his Mistresse going to Sea

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Were they not Angells sang did not mine eares

Page No:

pp. 121-122

Poem Title:

A Copy of Verses spoke to King CHARLES by way of entertainment when he was pleas'd to grace S. John's Colledge with his visit. 1636.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

Tis done and now wheres he that cryed it down

Page No:

pp. 122-124

Poem Title:

Upon the new Quadrangle of St Johns Colledge in Oxfrod, built by the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

Blind fortune if thou wants a guide

Page No:

pp. 124-125

Poem Title:

Fortunes Legacy

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Martin Harvey

First Line:

Whether sweet Mistresse I should most

Page No:

pp. 126-127

Poem Title:

Upon a Gentlewomans entertainment of him

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

Grieve not faire maid cause you are black so's she

Page No:

p. 128

Poem Title:

To a black Gentlewoman Mistresse A.H.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Abraham Wright

First Line:

As when the vestall hearth went out no fire

Page No:

pp. 129-133

Poem Title:

To the Memory of BEN JOHNSON

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

I wonder that you should send for the Cloak

Page No:

pp. 134-135

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Letter of the Cloake

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Bond

First Line:

Hark my Flora love doth call us

Page No:

pp. 136-137

Poem Title:

Loves Courtship

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Must then our loves be short still must we chuse

Page No:

pp. 137-141

Poem Title:

Upon the death of the Lord Stafford, the last of his name

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Unequall nature that dost load not pair

Page No:

pp. 141-142

Poem Title:

Upon the same

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Godfrey

First Line:

With face and fashion to be known

Page No:

pp. 143-145

Poem Title:

A Song of the Precise Cut

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Could we judge here most vertuous Madam then

Page No:

pp. 146-147

Poem Title:

Upon the Lady Paulets Gift to the University of Oxford: Being an exact piece of Needle-work presenting the whole story of the Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of our Saviour

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Madam your work's all miracle and you

Page No:

pp. 148-149

Poem Title:

On the same

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Edward Dalby

First Line:

Lady| You have drawn and are all graces none so true

Page No:

pp. 150-153

Poem Title:

On the same

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Gawen

First Line:

Come leave that saucy way

Page No:

pp. 154-156

Poem Title:

Against BEN: JOHNSON

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Owen Felltham

First Line:

When first the Magick of thine eye

Page No:

pp. 157-158

Poem Title:

Upon a Gentlewoman who broke her vow

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

All Poets Hippocrene admire

Page No:

pp. 158-159

Poem Title:

A Song upon a Winepot

Attribution:

Attributed To:

N. N.

First Line:

I mean to sing of Englands fate

Page No:

pp. 159-160

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Seeing thou wouldst bewitch'd by some ill charms

Page No:

p. 159

Poem Title:

To one married to an old man

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

The Parliament cries arme the King says no

Page No:

p. 161

Poem Title:

Upon the Times

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

TV DeVs IaM propItIVs aIs regI regnoqVe hVIC CnIVerso

Page No:

p. 161

Poem Title:

A double Chronogram (the one in Latine the other in the English of that Latine) upon the year 1642

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Saw you the Cloak at Church to day

Page No:

p. 162

Poem Title:

On the Noble-mans Sons Cloak that refused to wear a Gown in Oxford

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What Magick art

Page No:

p. 163

Poem Title:

On Alma's voyce

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed