Poems on affairs of state [Vol. II] [T144917]
- DMI number:
- 207
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 4
- ESTC number:
- T144917
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112181910
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 54
- Full Title:
- POEMS | ON | [g]Affairs of State,[/g] | From the Reign of K. James I. | to the Year 1703. | [i]Written by the Greatest Wits of the Age[/i]. | VIZ. | [2 cols.] [col. 1]The late Duke of [i]Buc- | ingham[/i], | Late Earl of [i]Rochester[/i], | Earl of [i]Dorset[/i], | Lord [i]Jefferys[/i], | Mr. [i]Milton[/i], |[i]Andrew Marvell[/i] Esq; | Mr. [i]St[/i]. [i]John[/i],[/col. 1] [col. 2]Mr. [i]Dryden[/i], | Dr. [i]Garth[/i], | Mr. [i]Toland[/i], | Mr. [i]Hughes[/i], | Mr. [i]Foe[/i], | Mr. [i]Finch[/i], | Mr. [i]Harcourt[/i], | Mr. [i]Tutchin[/i], &c. | [rule] | [i]Many of which were never before publish'd[/i]. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [g]The Second Edition[/g]. | [rule] | LONDON, | Printed for THOMAS TEBB and THEOPH. SANDERS | in [i]Little Britain[/i], EDW. SYMON at the [i]Black Bull[/i] in [i]Corn- | hill[/i], and FRANCIS CLAY at the [i]Bible[/i] without [i]Temple- | Bar[/i]. M. DCC. XVI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Political miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [i-ii] iii-xii, 1-471 [1].
- Bibliographic details:
- A reissue of N12192 with a cancelled title page. Ownership label on inside of cover reads 'Ex Libris Joseph Knight'. MS Note in pen above label reads 'Fawcett / Christ Coll Camb'; a pencil MS note below this reads 'Given by him to WVW'. MS annotation throughout volume. Pp.375, 443, and 469 are misnumbered 376, 344, and 269.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface indicating impartiality of collection (pp. iii-iv), followed by 'A TABLE of all the POEMS contain'd in this Second Volume.' (pp.v-xii)
- References:
- Cameron, W. J. "The Princeton copies of Poems on affairs of state, Vol.II, 1703." Princeton Univ. Lib. Chronicle 24 (1963): 121-127
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. II] [N12192]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- N12192
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- 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] [N12193 part 1]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N12193
- Volume:
- 1 of 4
- 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:
- 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] [T125689]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- T125689
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- 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. IV] [T144916]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- T144916
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state collected from the daily, evening, and weekly, papers [T180422] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1733
- ESTC No:
- T180422
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- State Poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [N12193 part 2]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- N12193
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T108846]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T108846
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T144920 part 2]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- T144920
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- 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. II] [T121816]
- Publication Date:
- 1703
- ESTC No:
- T121816
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- 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:
- 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:
- Author:
- Francis Clay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for THOMAS TEBB and THEOPH. SANDERS in Little Britain, EDW. SYMON at the Black Bull in Corn-hill, and FRANCIS CLAY at the Bible without Temple-Bar.'
- Publisher:
- Edward Symon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for THOMAS TEBB and THEOPH. SANDERS in Little Britain, EDW. SYMON at the Black Bull in Corn-hill, and FRANCIS CLAY at the Bible without Temple-Bar.'
- Publisher:
- Theophilus Sanders
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for THOMAS TEBB and THEOPH. SANDERS in Little Britain, EDW. SYMON at the Black Bull in Corn-hill, and FRANCIS CLAY at the Bible without Temple-Bar.'
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tebb
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for THOMAS TEBB and THEOPH. SANDERS in Little Britain, EDW. SYMON at the Black Bull in Corn-hill, and FRANCIS CLAY at the Bible without Temple-Bar.'
- 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:
- p.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.52-54
- 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 Frog's 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 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 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.69-71
- 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:
- p.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 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. XXVIII. 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 King 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 on 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.148-151
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the Painter, Upon the defeat of the Rebels in the West, and the Execution of the late Duke 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.169-178
- 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
- Attribution:
- by the Earl of Rochester, 1678
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Tis the Arabian bird alone
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- The Encoragement.
- Attribution:
- by the Earl 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 Earl 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 on 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 Campain. 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 Lords 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 Noisce 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.236-239
- Poem Title:
- A Melancholy Poem, on a dismal Disaster, In a Grubstreet Poem,
- 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 Confederate; 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 Wiilliam.
- 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 Gloucester Goal in Decem. 1688.
- 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.
- 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 that Valiant Hero Robert Blake Esq; General of the Fleets of the Commonwealth of England, from the Year 1649. to the Year 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:
- 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 Aqueduct 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 design'd 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:
- 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 on 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 Ratcliff 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, etc.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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 of 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.415-416
- 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, Novemb. 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:
- pp.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 Sybylline 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:
- English'd by Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- 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:
- Were I to choose what sort of corpse I'd wear
- Page No:
- pp.432-437
- 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:
- 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.[269]-471
- Poem Title:
- Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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