Poems on several occasions [T75645]

DMI number:

678

Publication Date:

1742

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T75645

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111617773

Shelfmark:

BL - 991.a.19

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | Several Occasions.| BY | [i]MATTHEW PRIOR[/i], Esq; | [rule] | VOLUME THE SECOND. | [rule] | THE FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | To which is Prefixed, | [i]The[/i] LIFE [i]of Mr[/i] PRIOR, | By [i]SAMUEL HUMPHREYS[/i] Esq; | [rule] | ADORNED WITH CUTS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[i] | Printed for C. HITCH at the [i]Red Lyon[/i] in [i]Pater-|Noster-Row[/i], and J. HODGES at the [i]Looking- | glass[/i] over against St [i]Magnus-Church London- | Bridge[/i]. | [short rule] | M.DCC.XLII.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[i]-lxxii, [1]-236, [1]-120pp.

Bibliographic details:

Separate title-page for 'Solomon De Mundi Vanitate’. ESTC notes: 'The second part consists of ’Original poems and translations by several hands’, with a half-title printed on the recto of the frontispiece, which bears the catchword "Vol.II." and was perhaps originally part of another collection.' ESTC notes 'p.lii mispaginated as 'ii'' Separate title page for 'Original poems': [ornamental rule] | ORIGINAL POEMS | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornamental rule] Plates: Frontispiece and facing p.[1], p.[17]; p.[3], p.[17].

Comments:

CONTENTS: ‘Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Prior’, contains prose and verse pp. [xiii]-lxxii including section of 'Verses to the Author' pp. xlvii-lxxii; Poems on Several Occasions by Prior pp. [1]-236; ‘Original Poems and Translations by Several Hands’ pp. [3]-120p. Latin inscription on p.xxxix-xl; Latin verse p.28, 121, 151-236; French verse on p. 111-2, 117. Attributions: poems in the first part of this book, 'Poems on Several Occasions' are considered to be attributed in this miscellany to Matthew Prior.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedicatory epistle to ‘His Grace Lionel, Duke of Dorset' signed by Samuel Humphreys [4pp.]; Table of contents [4pp.]; ‘Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Prior’, containing prose and verse pp. [xiii]-lxxii.

References:

Case 436(d)

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1767

ESTC No:

T75638

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

Poems on several occasions [T75657]

Publication Date:

1754

ESTC No:

T75657

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

Lionel Cranfield Sackville

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Dedicatory epistle by Samuel Humphreys.

Publisher:

C. Hitch

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

James Hodges

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Could I great bard o could I share

Page No:

pp.xx-xxi

Poem Title:

To Matthew Prior, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle

Page No:

pp.lxvii-lxxi

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, On His Solomon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mean artifice to gild precarious fame

Page No:

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Prior's muse prepares to sing

Page No:

pp.liiii-lv

Poem Title:

On the same Occasion,

Attribution:

By Mr. A.T. of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst Harley with more near approaches blessed

Page No:

pp.lviii-lxiiii

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr Prior, on the Folio Edition of his Poems, 1718.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let tears no more lament the dead in vain

Page No:

p.xlv-xlvi

Poem Title:

On the Publication of some Posthumous Pieces of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

W. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Matt Prior and we must submit

Page No:

pp.xliii-xlv

Poem Title:

Threnus: or Stanzas on the Death of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

By Robert Ingram, Esq;

Attributed To:

Robert Ingram

First Line:

The remnant of his days he safely past

Page No:

p.xxxiv

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I've listened long and now would silence break

Page No:

pp.xxvii-xxxiv

Poem Title:

Horace, Satire VII. Book VII. Davus and Horace.

Attribution:

In the preface signed 'J. Dennis', '...I appeal to you, Sir, if the Satire of Horace the Translation of which comes after this Letter [...]'.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

The first great man who made the world his own

Page No:

pp.l-liii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior On his Carmen Saeculare.

Attribution:

By James Marshall, Esq;

Attributed To:

James Marshall

First Line:

Receive great bard thanks from the meanest muse

Page No:

pp.lxv-lxvi

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior,

Attribution:

By Mr J. Newcome, Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge, Nov. 14th, 1719.

Attributed To:

J. Newcome

First Line:

As bards of old in nobler lays could sing

Page No:

pp.lvi-lviii

Poem Title:

On the Same Occasion

Attribution:

Geo. Waldron, Olim. Coll, Reg. Oxon.

Attributed To:

George Waldron

First Line:

Let Britain now at last no more complain

Page No:

pp.xlvii-l

Poem Title:

On Mr Prior's Collection of Poems, 1709.

Attribution:

G. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Oft have I thought great bard in my poor cell

Page No:

pp.lxvi-lxvii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior,

Attribution:

By Francis Peck, M. A. 1720.

Attributed To:

Francis Peck

First Line:

The nymph whose virgin heart thy charms have taught

Page No:

p.lxxii

Poem Title:

Lady Winchelsea to Mr Prior.

Attribution:

Lady Winchelsea to Mr Prior.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Behind an unfrequented glade

Page No:

pp.[1]-15

Poem Title:

The Turtle and Sparrow.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O dearest daughter of two dearest friends

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Application.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece

Page No:

pp.[17]-24

Poem Title:

Down-Hall: A Ballad. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Written in the Year MDCCXV.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When crowding folks with strange ill faces

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq; 1689.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O Phoebus deity whose powerful hand

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

To my Learned Friend Samuel Shaw, At Taking his Doctor's Degree, at Leyden, and defending a Thesis on the Jaundice.

Attribution:

.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

On Bishop Atterbury's. Burying the Duke of Buckinghamshire, 1721.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I sent for Radcliffe was so ill

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

The Remedy Worse than the Disease.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

How long deluded Albion wilt thou lie

Page No:

pp.30-40

Poem Title:

An Ode, In Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Written Anno 1692.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Madam | Since Anna visited the muses' seat

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Verses Spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish-Holles Harley, Countess of Oxford, In the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge, November IX, 1719.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

What would my humble comrades have me say

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Orphan, Represented by some of the Westminster Scholars, at Hickford's Dancing-Room in Panton-Street, near Leicester-Fields, the Second of February, 1720. Spoken by the Lord Duplin, who acted Cordelio.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

It always has been thought discreet

Page No:

pp.43-46

Poem Title:

The Conversation. A Tale.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred

Page No:

pp.47-50

Poem Title:

Colin's Mistakes. Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Wissin and nature held a long contest

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

To The Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Devonshire; On a Piece of Wiessen's, whereon were all her Grandsons Painted.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thus Kitty beautiful and young

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

The Female Phaeton.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Kneller's works of various grace

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Judgment of Venus.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Nobles and heralds by your leave

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

Epitaph Extempore.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

To Chloe.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Abate fair fugitive abate thy speed

Page No:

pp.58-62

Poem Title:

Daphne and Apollo: Imitated, from the first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Heavy O Lord on me thy judgments lie

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Considerations On Part of the LXXXVIIIth Psalm. A College Exercise, 1690.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The town which Louis bought Nassau reclaims

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

On the Taking of Namur, 1695.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Pish lord I wish this prologue was but Greek

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Prologue Spoken by Lord Buckhurst, in Westminster-School, at Christmas, 1695, in the Character of Cleonidas, in Mr. Dryden's Cleomenes.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

The Secretary. Written at the Hague, 1696.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Lords knights and squires the numerous band

Page No:

pp.66-68

Poem Title:

To A Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704; The Author then Forty.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The sturdy man if he in love obtains

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Partial Fame.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When you with high dutch heeren dine

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Upon this Passage in Scaligeriana.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Two mice dear boy of genteel fashion

Page No:

pp.69-73

Poem Title:

The Mice. To Mr. Adrian Drift.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'. Signed 'Your's entirely, Matthew'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Sphinx was a monster that would eat

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Two Riddles, 1710.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The fox an actor's vizard found

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

A Fable.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Of Nero tyrant petty king

Page No:

pp.75-86

Poem Title:

The Viceroy. A Ballad. To the Tune of The Lady Isabella's Tragedy: Or, The Step-Mother's Cruelty.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

Bibo and Charon.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Nell given over by the doctor was dying

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

Nell and John.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

The Modern Saint.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O death how thou spoilst the best project of life

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

Wives by the Dozen.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

Fatal Love.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

A Sailor's Wife.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Prometheus forming Mr Day

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

The Parallel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When hungry wolves had trespassed on the fold

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

A Greek Epigram Imitated.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Reader I was born and cried

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

On a Fart, let in the House of Commons.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Jove lay blessed in his Alcmena's charms

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

To a Friend on his Nuptials.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O with what woes am I oppressed

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

Husband and Wife.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

You madam may with safety go

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady, Who was fond of Fortune-Telling.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

It oft to many has successful been

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

Cupid in Ambush.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Will Piggot must to Coxwould go

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

The Wandering Pilgrim. Humbly address'd to Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart. Post-Master, and Pay-Master-General to Queen Anne.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Cupid turned Plowman. From Moschus.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thus to the muses spoke the Cyprian dame

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Venus's Advice to the Muses.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

No I'll endure ten thousand deaths

Page No:

pp.99-101

Poem Title:

Chaste Florimel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I in prison or in court look down

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

To Fortune.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let others from the town retire

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Non Pareil.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Honour I say or honest fame

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

Upon Honour. A Fragment.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

That all from Adam first began

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

The Old Gentry.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

The Insatiable Priest.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

The Incurable.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Pontius who loves you know a joke

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Pontius and Pontia.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Willis of Ephraim heard Rochester preach

Page No:

pp.106

Poem Title:

Doctors Differ.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

So good a wife doth Lissy make

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

Cautious Alice.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Lysander talks extremely well

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

The Pedant.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Of thy judicious muse's sense

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

To A Poet of Quality, Praising the Lady Hinchinbroke.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

At dead of night when stars appear

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Cupid turn'd Stroller. From Anacreon.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

Enigma.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Formed half beneath and half above the earth

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

Enigma.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

Truth told at last.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Now how shall I do with my love and my pride

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

A Case Stated.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Why thus from the plain does my shepherdess rove

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

Imitated. [Chanson]

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I my dear was born today

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

On my Birth-Day. July XXI.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

As doctors give physic by way of prevention

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

For my own Monument.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I know that fortune long has wanted sight

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Upon Playing at Ombre With Two Ladies.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Soft cupid wanton amorous boy

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Cupid's Promise, Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Once on a time in sunshine weather

Page No:

pp.119-121

Poem Title:

Truth and Falshood. A Tale.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

This lamp which Prior to his Harley gave

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Engraven on Three-Sides of an Antique-Lamp, given by me to Lord Harley: Mat. Prior.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'. 'Mat. Prior'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Reading ends in melancholy

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

I. Set by Mr. Abel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whither would my passion run

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

II. Set by Mr. Purcel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Come weep no more for tis in vain

Page No:

pp.123-125

Poem Title:

IV. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Strephonetta why do ye fly me

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

III. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let perjured fair Aminta know

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

V. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis since we have both been kind

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

VI. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis this pious talk give over

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

VII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Still Dorinda I adore

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

VIII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Is it o love thy want of eyes

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

IX. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Why Harry what ails you why look you so sad

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

X. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Morella charming without art

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

XI. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since my words though never so tender

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

XII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Love inform thy faithful creature

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

XIII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Once I was unconfined and free

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

XIV. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Farewell Amynta we must part

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

XV. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Accept my love as true a heart

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

XVI. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Nanny blushes when I woo her

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

XVII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since we your husband daily see

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

XVIII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis give this humour over

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

XIX. Set by Mr. C.R.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since by ill fate I'm forced away

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

XX. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Touch the lyre every string

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

XXI. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

In vain alas poor Strephon tries

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

XXII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Well I will never more complain

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

XXIII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Chloe beauty has and wit

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

XXIV. Set by Mr. C. R.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since Moggy I mun bid adieu

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

XXV.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Some kind angel gently flying

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

XXVI.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Haste my Nannette

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

XXVII.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst others proclaim

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

XXVIII. Nelly.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Beauty's a gaudy sign no more

Page No:

p.[3]-5

Poem Title:

The Curious Maid.

Attribution:

By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

O thou designed by nature to control

Page No:

pp.5-8

Poem Title:

The Silent Flute: Or, The Members Spech to their Soveraign.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Jacob].

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

Celia this night has promised I

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

An Allusion to Horace. Ode XXX. Book I.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Jacob]

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

You who like Proteus in all shapes appear

Page No:

pp.10-18

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Jacob]

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

With flowing pomp and beauteous pride

Page No:

pp.19-22

Poem Title:

A Ship in a Storm.

Attribution:

By a Sailor.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Phoebus darted forth a milder ray

Page No:

pp.22-25

Poem Title:

Strada's Nightingale. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Where the fair Paphian goddess keeps her court

Page No:

pp.25-30

Poem Title:

The Court of Venus, From Claudian.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Pattison]

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure

Page No:

pp.31-33

Poem Title:

Dobson and Joan: A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr B****.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man that is drunk is void of all care

Page No:

pp.33-35

Poem Title:

Horace's Integer Vitae, &c. Imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. 'Mr. B****']

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such words the prophet's indignation raise

Page No:

pp.35-39

Poem Title:

The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice. From The Fourth Georgic of Virgil.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphreys, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

Thank heaven at last our wars are over

Page No:

pp.40-55

Poem Title:

Vertumnus. An Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart. Botany Professor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the Physic-Garden.

Attribution:

By Dr. Evans, 1711.

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Read the commandments Trapp translate no further

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

Written in a Blank-Leaf of Dr Trapp's Blank-Verse-Translation of Virgil.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Evans]

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Whilst you my Lord acquire a deathless name

Page No:

pp.56-69

Poem Title:

Canons. Inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Chandos. ... Written in the Year 1728.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphreys, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

When heaven has once with rich profusion joined

Page No:

pp.70-74

Poem Title:

Malpasia. A Poem, Sacred to the Memory Of the Right Honourable the Lady Malpas.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Humphreys]

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

By what authority do clergy

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

Attribution:

By Mr Butler, Author-of Hudibras.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Before Apollo's shrine I prayed

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

The Young Poet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Simon Harcourt, Esq; Occasioned By his Fathering the Verses to the Lady Catharine Hyde.

Attribution:

By Dr Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Fain would I sir what you advised fulfil

Page No:

pp.77-81

Poem Title:

Harley. An Epistle from a Clergyman in Essex, to his Friend in London. 1722.

Attribution:

from a Clergyman in Essex

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I who on rude unpolished reed

Page No:

pp.81-83

Poem Title:

On The Double Birth-Day Of The Countess of Oxford, and her Daughter, now Duchess of Portland, Feb. 11.

Attribution:

By the Hon. Mr Harley, now Earl of Oxford.

Attributed To:

Robert Harley

First Line:

Ladies to you with pleasure we submit

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Prologue for Delia's Play,

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What all our sex in one sad hour undone

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

To Delia On Her Play.

Attribution:

'written by the Right Honourable John, Marquis of Normanby, Duke of Buckinghamshire, which, being omitted in his Lordship's Works, I shall here give the Reader, as a truly valuable Curiosity' [footnote attribution on p.84].

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

It was the fate of an unhappy swain

Page No:

pp.86-89

Poem Title:

Amaryllis. A Pastoral

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three nymphs glad Damon's heart divide

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Written at East-Hamstead, To Sir William Trumbull's Three Nieces.

Attribution:

By Sir Henry Sheers.

Attributed To:

Henry [Henry Sheers] Sheres

First Line:

Thou tyrant god of love give over

Page No:

pp.90-93

Poem Title:

Loving One I Never Saw.

Attribution:

W. Walsh

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Phyllis if you will not agree

Page No:

pp.94-97

Poem Title:

The Antiquated Coquet.

Attribution:

'supposed to have been written by the Earl of Dorset [...] in the Reign of King Charles II. The MS is signed B. i.e. we presume Buckhurst', footnote attribution on p.97

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Farewell ye shady walks and fountains

Page No:

pp.97-99

Poem Title:

Dorinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If absence so much racks my charmer's heart

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

To Leonora.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cease Leonora cease to mourn

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

To Leonora, Encore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While mad Ophelia we lament

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

On a Pretty Mad-Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The circling months begin this day

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

The New-Year's Gift To Phyllis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What a tedious day is past

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

Absence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For God's sake nay dear sir

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

Miss Coy, A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jove once resolved the females to degrade

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

On Snuff.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You need not thus so often pray

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I see the fetters I am doomed to wear

Page No:

pp.105-108

Poem Title:

The Fourth Elegy Of The Second Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lay not the pain so near your heart

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

To A Friend who had a Pain in his Side.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not that I may in worldly wealth abound

Page No:

pp.108-110

Poem Title:

The Third Elegy Of The Third Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No woman ever shall draw me from your arms

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

The Twelfth Elegy. Of The Fourth Book of Tibullus. To His Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe since you a handsome woman are

Page No:

pp.112-115

Poem Title:

Ovid's Amours, Elegy III, Book III. Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virgil and Horace equally divine

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

Written under Mr Prior's Picture,

Attribution:

By Mr Drift.

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

O dearest master father friend

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, On His Birth-Day, July 21.

Attribution:

'With these Verses, Mr Drift delivered to Mr Prior his Annual Accompt', footnote on p.116.

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

Wit sense and learning massacred of late

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

On a Report of Mr Prior's Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is Prior gone O would you once inspire

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

On the Death of Matthew Prior, Esq; Of Down-Hall in Essex.

Attribution:

By a Neighbouring Clergyman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To view this solemn scene this pomp of woe

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

On Seeing Mr Prior's Funeral. In Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

Adrian Drift

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift