Poems in English and Latin on the archers [T85690]
- DMI number:
- 668
- Publication Date:
- 1726
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T85690
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB132911735
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Douce P 260 (2)
- Full Title:
- POEMS | IN | [i]English[/i] and [i]Latin[/i], | ON THE | ARCHERS, | AND | Royal-Company | OF | ARCHERS. | [rule] | [i]By several[/i] HANDS. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH:[/i] | Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVI.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of poems about subject/person
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- PAGINATION: [1-2], 3-52, [53-54], 55-76, [77-80], 81-97, [98-100], 101-105, [3].
- Bibliographic details:
- Body text runs over running title/pagination on sigs.G3-G3v SEPARATE TITLE PAGES: 1. p.[53] [ornamental rule] | AN | ACCOUNT | OF THE | PIECES appended to the | MUSSELBURGH-Arrow, [i]&c[/i]. | [ornamental rule] 2. p.[79] [ornamental rule] | AN | ACCOUNT | OF THF | PIECES appended to the | [i]Edinburgh[/i] Silver-Arrow. | [ornamental rule] 3. p.[99] [ornamental rule] | AN | ACCOUNT | OF THE | PIECES appended to the | SILVER-BOWL, which be- | longs to the [i]Royal Company[/i] | of ARCHERS. | [ornamental rule]
- Comments:
- MISCELLANY CONTENTS: English and Latin verse up to p.52. Three prose/latin verse descriptions follow for rest of volume, with separate title pages. Pagination and register are continuous.
- References:
- Case 388
- First Line:
- Who can with so much envy be possessed
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- On the Royal Company of Scottish Archers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now Phoebus on our fields doth early smile
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- On the Royal Company of Scottish Archers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Could Fergus raise his awful head
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. David Drummond, President of the Royal Company of Archers, MDCCXV.
- Attribution:
- By Sir W. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail veteran in victory grey
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. David Drummond, in Imitation of Mr. Kincaid's Latin Poem to him,
- Attribution:
- by Sir W. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Again the year returns the day
- Page No:
- pp.28-32
- Poem Title:
- On the Royal Company of Archers shooting for the Bowl, July 6th, 1724; On which Day, His Grace James Duke of Hamilton was chosen their Captain General; and Mr. David Drummond their Preses won the Prize.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The rovers and the buts you saw
- Page No:
- pp.33-41
- Poem Title:
- On Seeing the Archers diverting themselves at the Buts and Rovers, &c. At the Desire of Sir William Bennet, Anno MDCCXXIV.
- Attribution:
- By Allan Ramsay.
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Now like themselves again the archers raise
- Page No:
- pp.42-46
- Poem Title:
- On the Royal Company of Archers, marching under the Command of his Grace, Duke of Hamilton, in their proper Habits, to shoot for the Arrow at Musselburgh. August IV. MDCCXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As from his bow a fatal flane
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- On his Grace, the Duke of Hamilton's shooting an Arrow through the Neck of an Eel, IV. July, MDCCXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The restless mind of man never tires
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- The Poet's Thanks to the Archers, on being admitted into their Royal Company.
- Attribution:
- Allan Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Sound sound the music sound it
- Page No:
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Archer's March.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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