Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]

DMI number:

116

Aliases

Poems on affairs of state

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1702

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T108847

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111682586

Shelfmark:

BOD Douce P 464

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | [g]Affairs of State:[/g] | FROM | The Time of [i]Oliver Cromwell[/i], to the | Abdication of K. [i]James[/i] the Second. | [i]Written by the greatest Wits of the Age.[/i] | VIZ. | [2 columns] [col 1]Duke of [i]Buckingham[/i], | Earl of [i]Rochester[/i], | Lord [i]Bu-----st[/i], | Sir [i]John Denham[/i], | [i]Andrew Marvell[/i], Esq;[/col 1] | [col 2]Mr. [i]Milton[/i], | Mr. [i]Dryden[/i], | Mr. [i]Sprat[/i], | Mr. [i]Waller[/i], | Mr. [i]Ayloffe[/i], &c.[/col 2] | [rule] | With some Miscellany Poems by the same: | Most whereof never before Printed | [rule] | [i]Now carefully examined with the Originals, and | Published without any Castration. | [rule] | [g]The Fourth Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged.[/g] | [rule] | Printed in the Year, 1702.

Place of Publication:

n.p.

Genres:

Political miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[8] 1-224, 245-267 [1]. Text is continuous despite pagination.

Bibliographic details:

page 225 mispaginated as 245, and error in pagination continued for rest of volume. Text is continuous. Prefaratory material (sigs. A-A4v) is printed as a half-sheet. Another half sheet, sigs. R-R4v, is printed as an addendum, containing the poem 'In opposition to Mr. Dryden's Essay on Satyr. 1680.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface (sigs.A2-A3v); index (sigs.A4-A4v)

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1689

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Content/Publication

First Line:

While with a strong and yet a gentle hand

Page No:

pp.1-6

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories.

Attribution:

By E. Waller, Esq;

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

And now 'tis time for their officious haste

Page No:

pp.6-11

Poem Title:

Heroick Stanza's on the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell: Written after his Funeral.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis true great name thou art secure

Page No:

pp.13-23

Poem Title:

To the happy Memory of the late Usurper, Oliver Cromwell....Pindarick Odes.

Attribution:

By Mr. Sprat of Oxon

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

We must resign heaven his great soul does claim

Page No:

pp.23-4

Poem Title:

Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell, ensuing the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Nay painter if thou darest design that fight

Page No:

pp.24-33

Poem Title:

Directions to a Painter concerning the Dutch War.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham, 1667

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Imperial prince king of the seas and isles

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

To the King.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Sandwich in Spain now and the Duke in love

Page No:

pp.34-45

Poem Title:

Directions to a Painter.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Great prince and so much greater as more wise

Page No:

pp.45-6

Poem Title:

To the King.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Draw England ruined by what was given before

Page No:

pp.46-9

Poem Title:

Directions to a Painter.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Painter where was't thy former work did cease

Page No:

pp.50-54

Poem Title:

Directions to a Painter.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

After two sittings now our lady state

Page No:

pp.54-78

Poem Title:

The last Instructions to a Painter, about the Dutch Wars, 1667.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

So his bold tube man to the sun applied

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

To the King.

Attribution:

By A. M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of the old heroes when the warlike shades

Page No:

pp.79-84

Poem Title:

The Loyal Scot. By Cleaveland's Ghost, upon the Death of Captain Douglas, burnt on his Ship at Chatham.

Attribution:

By A. M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah Raleigh when thou didst thy breath resign

Page No:

pp.84-89

Poem Title:

Britannia and Raleigh.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Spread a large canvas painter to contain

Page No:

pp.89-92

Poem Title:

Advice to a Painter.

Attribution:

By A. Marvel, Esq.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

To the King.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For faults and follies London's doom shall fix

Page No:

pp.92-94

Poem Title:

Nostradamus's Prophecy.

Attribution:

By A. Marvel, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

It happened in the twilight of the day

Page No:

pp.94-97

Poem Title:

Sir Edmund Godfrey's Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of a tall stature and of sable hue

Page No:

pp.97-101

Poem Title:

An Historical Poem.

Attribution:

By A. Marvel, Esq.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

A country clown called Hodge went up to view

Page No:

pp.102-106

Poem Title:

Hodge's Vision from the Monument, December, 1675.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

We read in profane and sacred records

Page No:

pp.106-112

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between two Horses.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvell, Esq; 1674

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

The londoners gent to the king do present

Page No:

pp.112-115

Poem Title:

On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, presenting the late King and Duke of York each with a Copy of their Freedoms, Anno Dom. 1674.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Painter once more thy pencil reassume

Page No:

pp.115-117

Poem Title:

Further Instructions to a Painter, 1670.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

When daring Blood his rent to have regained

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

On Blood's Stealing the Crown.

Attribution:

By A. Marvel, Esq.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Whither O whither wander I forlorn

Page No:

pp.117-122

Poem Title:

Oceana & Britannia.

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

While lazy prelates leaned their mitred heads

Page No:

pp.122-3

Poem Title:

On his Excellent Friend Mr. Andrew Marvell, 1677.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone does lie

Page No:

pp.123-125

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on the Lord Fairfax.

Attribution:

By the D. of Buckingham.

Attributed To:

George Villiers

First Line:

Whenever tyrants fall the air

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

An Essay upon the Earl of Shaftsbury's Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known

Page No:

pp.128-131

Poem Title:

A Satyr in Answer to a Friend, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The free born English generous and wise

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

A Character of the English. In Allusion to Tacit. de Vit. Agric.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Colin drove his sheep along

Page No:

pp.132-135

Poem Title:

Cullen with his Flock of Misses, 1679.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The groans dear Armstrong which the world employ

Page No:

p.135-136

Poem Title:

Sir Tho. Armstrong's Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever looks about and minds things well

Page No:

pp.136-147

Poem Title:

The Royal Game: or, A Princely new Play found in a Dream, &c. 1672.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Near Holbourne lies a park of great renown

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Feb. the 26th. 1671.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chaste pious prudent C------ the second

Page No:

pp.149-154

Poem Title:

The History of the Insipids: A Lampoon, 1676.

Attribution:

By the Lord Roch----r.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Tired with the noisome follies of the age

Page No:

pp.154-160

Poem Title:

Rochester's Farewel, 1680.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the dark Stygian lake I come

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

Marvil's Ghost.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ayloffe

Attributed To:

John Ayloffe

First Line:

Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind

Page No:

pp.161-163

Poem Title:

The True Englishman, 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clarendon had law and sense

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

On the Young Statesmen.

Attribution:

By J. Dryden, 1680.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Methinks I see you newly risen

Page No:

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

Portsmouth's Looking-Glass.

Attribution:

By the L. Roch---r

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Since there are some that with me see the state

Page No:

pp.166-168

Poem Title:

The Impartial Trimmer, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair royal maid permit a youth undone

Page No:

pp.168-170

Poem Title:

Bajzet to Gloriana, 1684.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the isle of Great Britain long since famous known

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

On King Charles, by the Earl of Rochester; For which he was banish'd the Court, and turn'd Mountebank.

Attribution:

by the Earl of Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

What should I ask my friends which best would be

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

Cato's Answer to Libanius, when he advis'd him to go and consult the Oracle of Jupiter Hamon; Translated out of the 9th Book of Lucan, beginning at Quid quin Labiene jubes, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Ayloffe

Attributed To:

John Ayloffe

First Line:

From the blessed regions of eternal day

Page No:

pp.173-175

Poem Title:

The Lord Lucas's Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Algernon Sidney fills this tomb

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What strepitantious noise is it that sounds

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

The Brazen Head, 1688.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mortality would be too frail to hear

Page No:

pp.177-179

Poem Title:

Upon the Execrable Murder of the Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How dull and how insensible a beast

Page No:

pp.179-186

Poem Title:

An Essay upon Satyr.

Attribution:

By J. Dry--en

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I have too long endured her guilty scorn

Page No:

pp.186-189

Poem Title:

Upon an undeserving and ungrateful Mistress, whom he could not help loving. Being a Paraphrastical Translation of Ovid's Tenth Elegy. Lib. 3. Amorum.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once how I doted on this jilting town

Page No:

pp.190-193

Poem Title:

The Town Life.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since the united cunning of the stage

Page No:

pp.194-198

Poem Title:

A Satyr on the Modern Translators.

Attribution:

By Mr. P---r

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Here's a house to be let

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

The Parliament-House to be Lett, 1678.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I've heard the muses were still soft and kind

Page No:

pp.199-201

Poem Title:

Advice to Apollo, 1678.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Milford lane near to St Clement's steeple

Page No:

pp.201-203

Poem Title:

The Duel of the Crabs...Occasion'd by Sir R. Howard's Duel of the Stags.

Attribution:

By the Lord B------st

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Since to restrain our joys that ill but rude

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

Instructions to his Mistress how to behave herself at Supper with her Husband, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Apollo concerned to see the transgressions

Page No:

pp.206-211

Poem Title:

The Session of the Poets, to the Tune of Cook Lawrel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What art thou O thou new found pain

Page No:

pp.212-215

Poem Title:

Desire. A Pindaric.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once more a father and a son falls out

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

On the Prince's going to England with an Army to restore the Government, 1688.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

R H they say is gone to sea

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

On his Royal Highness's Voyage beyond Sea. March 3d 1678.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The rabble hates the gentry fear

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

The Rabble. 1680.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twere folly for ever

Page No:

pp.218-220

Poem Title:

A New Song of the Times, 1683.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As restless on my bed one night I lay

Page No:

pp.220-245

Poem Title:

The Battle-Royal, A Dream, 1687.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here uninterred suspends though not to save

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham.

Attribution:

Written by the late Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Tis well he's gone O had he never been

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

An Answer to Mr. Waller's Poem on Oliver's Death, called the Storm.

Attribution:

Written by Sir W----- G----n.

Attributed To:

Sir William Godolphin

First Line:

When Clarendon had discerned beforehand

Page No:

pp.247-251

Poem Title:

Clarindon's House-Warming: Printed formerly with the Directions to a Painter.

Attribution:

Writ by an unknown Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the sacred bones

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

Upon his House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When plate was at pawn and fob at an ebb

Page No:

pp.251-253

Poem Title:

Royal Resolutions

Attribution:

By A. Marvell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Pride lust ambition and the people's hate

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

On the Lord Chancellor H--e's Disgrace and Banishment by King Charles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when proud Lucifer aimed at a throne

Page No:

pp.254-255

Poem Title:

The Parallel, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since now my Silvia is as kind as fair

Page No:

pp.255-258

Poem Title:

The Perfect Enjoyment.

Attribution:

By the E--- of R---

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Husband thou dull unpitied miscreant

Page No:

pp.258-260

Poem Title:

A Satyr against Marriage.

Attribution:

'By the same' i.e. the 'E--- of R----'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now the reformer of the court and stage

Page No:

pp.261-267

Poem Title:

Addenda. In Opposition to Mr. Dryden's Essay on Satyr. 1680.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed