Poems on affairs of state [vol. II] [T125689]
- DMI number:
- 129
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T125689
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW105247328
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Douce P 465
- Full Title:
- POEMS | ON | [g]Affairs of State.[/g] | FROM | The Reign of K. [i]James[/i] the First, | To this Present Year 1703. | Written by the Greatest Wits of the Age, | [i]VIZ[/i]. | [2 cols.] [col. 1]The Duke of [i]Bucking- | ham[/i]. | The Earl of [i]Rochester[/i]. | The Earl of [i]D----t[/i]. | Lord [i]J-----s[/i]. | Mr. [i]Milton[/i]. | Mr. [i]Marvel[/i]. | Mr. [i]St. J--n[/i].[/col. 1] [col. 2]Mr. [i]John Dryden[/i]. | Dr. [i]G--th[/i]. | Mr. [i]Toland[/i]. | Mr. [i]Hughes[/i]. | Mr. [i]F--e[/i]. | Mr. [i]Finch[/i]. | Mr. [i]Harcourt[/i]. | Mr. [i]T------n[/i], &c.[/col. 2] | [rule] | [i]Many of which never before Publish'd[/i]. | [rule] | Vol. II. | [rule] | Printed in the Year 1703.
- Place of Publication:
- [London]
- Genres:
- Political miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- i-xii, 1-471 [1].
- Bibliographic details:
- Mispagination: Pp.42 and 49 misnumbered 44 and 4 respectively.
- Other matter:
- Short preface highlights volume as second vol of POAS, apologises for poems not being in chronological order. Declares political impartiality and claims historical value for poems. Finally suggests that the volume saves readers the charge and expense of collecting their own poems. Followed by 'A Table of all the POEMS contain'd in this Second Volume.'
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [Vol. II] [T121816]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- T121816
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T108847
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144919]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- T144919 [vol. I]
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R23725]
- Publication Date:
- 1689
- ESTC No:
- R23725
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- A new collection of poems relating to state affairs [N5917]
- Publication Date:
- 1705
- ESTC No:
- N5917
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [N12193 part 1]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N12193
- Volume:
- 1 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144920 part 1]
- Publication Date:
- 1710
- ESTC No:
- T144920
- Volume:
- 1 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. II] [N12192]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- N12192
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [Vol. II] [T144917]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T144917
- Volume:
- 2 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. III] [T144915]
- Publication Date:
- 1704
- ESTC No:
- T144915
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [Vol. III] [T144918]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T144918
- Volume:
- 3 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [Vol. IV] [N12191]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N12191
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. IV] [T144916]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- T144916
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwell to the year 1697 [T144983]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- T144983
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R10478]
- Publication Date:
- 1689
- ESTC No:
- R10478
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of the collection of poems on affairs of state [R22081]
- Publication Date:
- 1689
- ESTC No:
- R22081
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Long time had Israel been disused from rest
- Page No:
- pp.1-6
- Poem Title:
- The Foreigners.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Speak satire for there's none can tell like thee
- Page No:
- pp.14-46
- Poem Title:
- The true-born englishman: a satyr
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Aesop's new-made world of wit
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Fab. I. Fair warning
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A dunghill cock was raking in the ground
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Fab. II. The cock and pearl
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A horse and ass were journeying on their way
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Fab. III. Of the horse and the ass
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wolf complained that he had lost a lamb
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- Fab. IV. Of the judgement of the ape
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A fierce wild boar of monstrous size and force
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- Fab. V. Of the horse and man
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two welshmen partners in a cow
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VI. The bargain
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two fierce young bulls within the marshes strove
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VII. The Frogs Concern.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wretched churl was travelling with his ass
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VIII. Of a man and his ass
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wolf retiring from Whitehall
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- Fab. IX. Of a wolf
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two travellers an oyster found
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Fab. X. The plaintiff and the defendant
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The hawks were once at mortal jars
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XI. Of the Pigeons.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A hare did once into a garden get
- Page No:
- pp.58-60
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XII. The farmer and the hare
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A youth of pregnant parts and wit
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XIII. Poetry its Cure.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An aged fox that ravaged woods and plains
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- Fab. I. The fox and the poultry
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A labouring swain had been at work
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- Fab. II. The poor man and the devil
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A badger once did ravage all the fields
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Fab. III. The farmer and the badger
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A lusty horse not long ago
- Page No:
- pp.65-67
- Poem Title:
- Fab. IV. The ravens and the crows
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The mighty Puss not long since ruled the state
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Fab. V. The Summons.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The morning come the slaves await
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VI. The interview
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A generous race of croaking frogs
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VII. The frogs concern
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A youthful lion in the wood
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Fab. VIII. The lion and fox
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A mighty weasel of renown
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- Fab. IX. The Weesil, Rats and Mice
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A land there is as maps do tell
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Fab. X. Lubberland
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A hawk that of yore
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XI. The hawk and birds
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The princes once did all combine
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XII. The asylum
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once on a time the hands and feet
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XIII. Of the other members conspiring against the belly
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A certain brewer whose liquor of life
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XIV. The fable of the spunge
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Aesop overcome with wind and spleen
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XV. Esop sent to bedlam
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wanton sloven of a priest
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XVI. The priest and pears
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A fierce dispute betwixt birds of night
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XVII. The owl and the bat
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two sharpers once to gaming fell
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XVIII. The sharpers and cullies
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A half famished wolf met a jolly fat dog
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XIX. The wolf and the dog
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An apple fallen from a tree
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XX. Of the apple and the horse-turd
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A welshman from his hills come down
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXI. The pump
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cold Muscovy as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXII. Of the bear and the bees
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was a monarch whose imperial sway
- Page No:
- pp.88-92
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXIII. The devil and the priest
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A milk white rogue immortal and unhanged
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXIV. The courtier
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Religion is a thing if understood
- Page No:
- pp.93-96
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXV. The pilgrims
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was an eagle built his nest
- Page No:
- pp.96-100
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXVI. The confederacy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A mighty lion heretofore
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXVII. The lions treaty of partition
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wealthy matron now grown old
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXVII. The blind woman and her doctors
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Five satyrs of the woodland sort
- Page No:
- pp.102-104
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXIX. The satyrs address
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There dwelt a farmer in the west
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Fab. XXX. The farmer and his dog
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And since men wandering in a wood by night
- Page No:
- pp.105-108
- Poem Title:
- A copy of verses written in the year 1623. relating to many things that would happen to the government of England
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God hath a controversy with our land
- Page No:
- pp.108-113
- Poem Title:
- Another copy of verses by the same author, written in 1628
- Attribution:
- Another copy of verses by the same author
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the grain our nation yields
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- A panegyrick upon Oates.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Roundhead | In parem imperium habet par
- Page No:
- pp.115-118
- Poem Title:
- Roundhead
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What the priests gospel call
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My tap is run then Baxter tell me why
- Page No:
- pp.119-122
- Poem Title:
- The last will and testament of Anthony K. of Poland
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nan and Frank two quondam friends
- Page No:
- pp.122-127
- Poem Title:
- The combat
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Worthy Sir | Though weaned from all those scandalous delights
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- Letter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From the deep vaulted den of endless night
- Page No:
- pp.128-131
- Poem Title:
- Rochester's ghost addressing it self to the secretary of the muses
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Friend | When those we love are in distress
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- A consolatory epistle to Julian in his confinement
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No longer blame those on the banks of Nile
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- A riddle
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Julian twice or thrice a year
- Page No:
- pp.135-137
- Poem Title:
- To Julian.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend
- Page No:
- pp.138-143
- Poem Title:
- A satyr upon the poets, being a translation out of the 7th satyr of Juvenal
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here take this W--- spread it up and down
- Page No:
- pp.143-146
- Poem Title:
- Letter to C----- W
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If Afra's worth were needful to be shown
- Page No:
- pp.146-148
- Poem Title:
- The Female Laureat
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since by just flames the guilty piece is lost
- Page No:
- pp.149-151
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the painter, upon the defeat of the rebels in the west, and the execution of the late D. of Monmouth
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the plagues mankind possess
- Page No:
- pp.152-156
- Poem Title:
- Madam le Croy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A session of lovers was held the other day
- Page No:
- pp.156-165
- Poem Title:
- The Lover's Session, in imitation of Sir John Suckling's session of poets
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How liberty of conscience that's a change
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- Doctor Wild's ghost, on his majesty's declaration for liberty of conscience
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Damon the author of so great renown
- Page No:
- pp.168-169
- Poem Title:
- The Renegado Poet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men
- Page No:
- pp.168-178
- Poem Title:
- The tribe of Levi
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clito the wise the generous and good
- Page No:
- pp.179-186
- Poem Title:
- Clito: a poem on the force of eloquence.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Toland
- Attributed To:
- John Toland
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Page No:
- pp.187-188
- Poem Title:
- Some verses sent by a friend to one who twice ventur'd his carcase in marriage
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You ladies all of merry England
- Page No:
- pp.188-191
- Poem Title:
- Signior Dildoe, by the Earl of Rochester, 1678
- Attribution:
- by the Earl of Rochester, 1678
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Tis the Arabian bird alone
- Page No:
- p.191.00
- Poem Title:
- The encouragement
- Attribution:
- by the E. of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- In all humility we crave
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- The commons petition to the king,
- Attribution:
- by the E. of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Preserved by wonder in the oak O Charles
- Page No:
- pp.192-194
- Poem Title:
- A Satyr by the Lord Rochester, which King Charles took out of his Pocket.
- Attribution:
- by the Lord Rochester,
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Here lies a horse beneath this stone
- Page No:
- pp.195-196
- Poem Title:
- An epitaph upon a stumbling-horse
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the cheats and shams that have of late
- Page No:
- pp.197-202
- Poem Title:
- Ad populum phalerae: or the twin-shams
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When people find their money spent
- Page No:
- pp.203-210
- Poem Title:
- The Campaign, 1692.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A thin ill natured ghost that haunts the king
- Page No:
- pp.211-213
- Poem Title:
- A satyr written when the K--- went to Flanders, and left nine Lord Justices
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- About the time that I shall be
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- A prophecy which hath been in a manuscript in the Lord Powis's family above sixty years
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a creature of indulgent fate
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- An epitaph upon the E. of Ro---ster's being dismist from the treasury in 1687,
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Unhappy I who once ordained did bear
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- King James to himself,
- Attribution:
- by Mr. D----n
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I sing the praise of a worthy knight
- Page No:
- pp.216-218
- Poem Title:
- On the Duke of Bucks
- Attribution:
- by Mr. D----n
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- See Britons see one half before your eyes
- Page No:
- pp.218-219
- Poem Title:
- Prologue for Sir John Falstaff, rising slowly to soft musick
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Humbly sheweth | Should you order Tom Brown
- Page No:
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- To the lords assembled in council: the petition of Tho. Brown
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great truckling soul whose stubborn honesty
- Page No:
- pp.221-223
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dryden, upon his declaring himself a Roman Catholick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain the harassed people strive
- Page No:
- pp.223-224
- Poem Title:
- Upon Mr. Neal's projecting new taxes
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some say a physician of late
- Page No:
- pp.224-226
- Poem Title:
- Doctor Hannes dissected, in a familiar epistle by way of nosce teipsum
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With the sad tidings of the day oppressed
- Page No:
- pp.227-229
- Poem Title:
- A poem on the death of his highness the Duke of Gloucester
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of kings renowned and mighty bards I write
- Page No:
- pp.229-235
- Poem Title:
- A description of Mr. Dryden's funeral
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Three doctors of late
- Page No:
- pp.236-238
- Poem Title:
- A melancholy theme on a dismal disaster, in a grubstreet poem, by grubstreet poetaster
- Attribution:
- by grubstreet poetaster
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now Lewis all thy numerous trophies boast
- Page No:
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- A Comparison betwixt Lewis XIV. and Prince Eugene
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cy gist icy Charles roy d'Espagne
- Page No:
- p.240
- Poem Title:
- An epitaph on the late king of Spain
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Aesop's tales an honest wretch we find
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- A fable
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye Patriots go on
- Page No:
- pp.241-245
- Poem Title:
- The patriots. Writ about the year 1700
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your M------ves Cl---is H---lys F--y's Lowthers
- Page No:
- pp.245-247
- Poem Title:
- On squire Neal's projects
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When envy does at Athens rise
- Page No:
- p.247
- Poem Title:
- On some Votes against the Lord S.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye vile traducers of the female kind
- Page No:
- pp.248-250
- Poem Title:
- The confederates: or, the first happy day of the island princess
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I told you sir it would not pass
- Page No:
- pp.251-254
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between poet Motteux and patron Henningham
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Harry canst thou find no subject fit
- Page No:
- pp.255-257
- Poem Title:
- A letter from J. P. to Colonel H. occasion'd by the Colonel's two late letters
- Attribution:
- A Letter from J. P.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And hast thou left old Jemmy in the lurch
- Page No:
- pp.258-261
- Poem Title:
- A satyr upon the French king. Writ after the peace was concluded at Reswick, anno 1697.
- Attribution:
- By a non-swearing parson, and said to be drop'd out of his pocket at Sam's Coffee-House
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One fatal day a sympathetic fire
- Page No:
- p.261
- Poem Title:
- On Madam Mohun and Mr. Congreve's sickness
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Second to Jove alone in whom unite
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- Engrav'd on a medal of the French king's
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fortune made up of toys and impudence
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- On fortune,
- Attribution:
- by the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- George Villiers
- First Line:
- The gods are not more blessed than he
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- On Madam Behn
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good people what will you of all be bereft
- Page No:
- p.264
- Poem Title:
- A song on the taxes, 1696
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In council wise in war so great a man
- Page No:
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- To King William
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the bold Carthaginian
- Page No:
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- Regulus's death by Carthage two ways
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As fair Olinda sat beneath a shady tree
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Cure for green sickness, 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Would you know if I should change my life
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Martial. Lib. 1 Epig. 58
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What fast and pray
- Page No:
- p.267
- Poem Title:
- Found on the church-door at Whitehall, January 30. 1696
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- William the third lies here the almighty's friend
- Page No:
- p.267
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on King William, 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A late expedition to Oxford was made
- Page No:
- pp.268-270
- Poem Title:
- On the Lord Lovelace's coming to Oxford from Glocester goal in December 168
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In a dark silent shady grove
- Page No:
- pp.271-272
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just
- Page No:
- p.271
- Poem Title:
- A song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Woman thou worst of all church-plagues farewell
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- On the divorces by Parliament, 1701
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When a knight of the north is lopped in axe yard
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- Some verses found in the ruins of the privy garden, which were carried to the gentleman usher, written in a scroll of parchment
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Renowned Blake what trumpet may be found
- Page No:
- pp.274-290
- Poem Title:
- The life and actions of Robert Blake Esq; general of the fleets of the Commonwealth of England, from the year 1649. to 1657. when he died in Plimouth Sound much lamented
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Such has been this ill-natured nation's fate
- Page No:
- pp.293-308
- Poem Title:
- The mock mourners. A satyr, by way of elegy on King William
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Midst pretty tricks and quaint device
- Page No:
- pp.309-311
- Poem Title:
- The Whim, dedicated to two Kings, that of Madrid and that of St. Germains.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fulmine Caesaro fretus Jovis Ales ab alto
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From parting clouds the German eagle brings
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- On the descent of the Germans from the Alps to Verona and their ascent from the aquaduct into Cremona
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Today a mighty hero comes to warm
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- A prologue designed for Tamerlane, but never spoke.
- Attribution:
- Written by Dr. G---th
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- See thou disturber of the world's repose
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- To the French King
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How long must the restorer of our state
- Page No:
- pp.315-317
- Poem Title:
- On King William
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As in a dream our thinking monarch lay
- Page No:
- pp.317-319
- Poem Title:
- The ghost of K. C------ II. Written about the year 1692
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In sable weeds your beaux and belles appear
- Page No:
- p.320
- Poem Title:
- The mourners: found in the streets, 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye English nations put your mourning on
- Page No:
- pp.320-321
- Poem Title:
- The counterpart
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lie the relics of a martyred knight
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- On Sir John Fenwick
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whither ye impious Britons do ye run
- Page No:
- pp.322-323
- Poem Title:
- An allusion to the 7th Epode of Horace, 1690. Quo, quo scelesti ruitis, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Illustrious steed who should give the zodiac grace
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- On S-----l
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Last year in the spring the life of the king
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- A song, 1696
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Goddess of numbers and of thoughts sublime
- Page No:
- pp.325-337
- Poem Title:
- The house of Nassau. A pindarick ode
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How long may heaven be bantered by a nation
- Page No:
- pp.340-374
- Poem Title:
- Reformation of manners, a satyr
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Near to the Rose where punks in numbers flock
- Page No:
- pp.374-377
- Poem Title:
- The Play-House: A Satyr.
- Attribution:
- By T. G. Gent
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On my hard fate as late I pondering lay
- Page No:
- pp.378-387
- Poem Title:
- The dream, to Sir Charles Duncomb
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For tyrants dead no statues we erect
- Page No:
- pp.387-395
- Poem Title:
- The british muse: or, tyranny expos'd. A satyr, occasion'd by all the fulsom and lying poems and elegies, that have been written of the death of the late King James
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For the miracles done
- Page No:
- pp.395-396
- Poem Title:
- On the Promoted Bishops. 1691.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A number of pr-----s though poor ones 'tis true
- Page No:
- pp.397-398
- Poem Title:
- A ballad on the confederates; in imitation of Ratcliffe Ramble
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cursed be the stars which did ordain
- Page No:
- pp.398-399
- Poem Title:
- Curse, 1690
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When J---- and his army shall run from the Boyne
- Page No:
- pp.399-400
- Poem Title:
- Answer to the prophecy, as when the knight, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A poll and land-tax are now coming forth
- Page No:
- pp.400-401
- Poem Title:
- A ballad on the poll-act
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pray sir did you hear of a late proclamation
- Page No:
- p.400
- Poem Title:
- On the exchequer bills
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail happy W------ thou art strangely great
- Page No:
- pp.401-402
- Poem Title:
- A panegyrick, 1696/7
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let mighty Caesar not disdain to view
- Page No:
- pp.402-403
- Poem Title:
- On the Earl of Castlemain's embassy to Rome in King James II. reign. 1687
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How nobly did our grateful city join
- Page No:
- pp.404-405
- Poem Title:
- On King William's statue at Dublin in memory of the victory at the Boyne, July 1st, 1690
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Justitiae defensor eras defensor honesti
- Page No:
- p.404
- Poem Title:
- On the Lord Treby's death. 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me Dormida why so gay
- Page No:
- pp.405-406
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess of Dor------r mistress to King J---- II. 1680. By the Earl of D----
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of D----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was a k--- of a S------h race
- Page No:
- pp.406-407
- Poem Title:
- A psalm sung the 30th January, 1696. At the C----s-H--d Club
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Insulting ass who basely could revile
- Page No:
- p.408
- Poem Title:
- An answer to a Jacobite panegyrick upon Sorrel
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whether by sea our mighty Ormond flies
- Page No:
- pp.409-410
- Poem Title:
- On the expedition to Cales under the D. of Ormond. 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When haughty monarchs their proud State expose
- Page No:
- pp.411-412
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen at her coming to Christ-Church
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Harcourt, Son to Sir Simon Harcourt, Solicitor General to Her Majesty.
- Attributed To:
- Simon Harcourt
- First Line:
- And you auspicious prince our other Care
- Page No:
- pp.412-413
- Poem Title:
- To the prince, at his coming to Christ-Church. Spoke by Mr. Cowslade
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With love though rude we crowd this hallowed place
- Page No:
- pp.413-414
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen at supper. Spoke by Mr. Finch, son to the honourable Heneage Finch Esq.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam once more the obsequious muse
- Page No:
- pp.414-415
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen going to bed. Spoke by Mr. Pultney
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through storms of wind and swelling seas which roar
- Page No:
- pp.416-417
- Poem Title:
- On the Duke of Ormond's success at Vigo, 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst Lewis the tyrant te deum does sing
- Page No:
- pp.416-417
- Poem Title:
- On the thanksgiving day, Nov. 12. 1702. for the success of her majesty and her allies by sea and land
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Annals and statues have the hero graced
- Page No:
- pp.417-418
- Poem Title:
- On the recovery of his royal highness the prince, Lord High Admiral of England. Novem. 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the people where no priest gives rules
- Page No:
- pp.419-420
- Poem Title:
- On the French protestants extolling their prince, notwithstanding his forcing them to abandon their native country
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rise lofty numbers rise from scenes of light
- Page No:
- pp.420-421
- Poem Title:
- On her majesty's birth-day, Feb. 6. 1702
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse begin a loftier flight
- Page No:
- p.422-425
- Poem Title:
- The Golden Age Restor'd. A Poem in imitation of the fourth Pastoral of Virgil; suppos'd to have been taken from a Sibylline Prophecy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse begin a loftier strain
- Page No:
- pp.426-428
- Poem Title:
- The Fourth Pastoral of Virgil.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Were I to choose what sort of corpse I'd wear
- Page No:
- pp.428-437
- Poem Title:
- An answer to the Earl of Rochester's satyr against man.
- Attribution:
- Written by Dr. P-----ck
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What hand what skill can frame the artful piece
- Page No:
- pp.428-432
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a painter, 1697
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sicilian goddess whose prophetic tongue
- Page No:
- pp.438-441
- Poem Title:
- The golden age revers'd
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse thy voice and subject raise
- Page No:
- pp.441-445
- Poem Title:
- The golden age, from the fourth eclog of Virgil, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If we into our selves or round us look
- Page No:
- pp.445-467
- Poem Title:
- A poem, in defence of the Church of England; In opposition to the Hind and Panther, written by Mr. John Dryden
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take courage noble Charles and cease to muse
- Page No:
- pp.467-468
- Poem Title:
- Quintus Arbelius to Charles Lord H-------
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great Nassau from his cradle to his grave
- Page No:
- p.468
- Poem Title:
- On King William the III
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And here must the hero that redeemed our land
- Page No:
- pp.469-471
- Poem Title:
- Postscript
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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