Poetical recreations consisting of original poems songs odes &c with several new translations. [ESTC R7698]

DMI number:

1718

Publication Date:

1688

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R7698

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:50591

Shelfmark:

EEBO-Bod

Full Title:

POETICAL | RECREATIONS: | Consisting of | ORIGINAL POEMS, | SONGS, ODES, &c. | With several | New [i]TRANSLATIONS.[/i] | [rule] | In Two PARTS. | [rule] | PART I. | Occasionally Written by Mrs. [i]JANE BARKER.[/i] | PART II. | By several Gentlemen of the UNIVERSITIES, | and Others. | [rule] | [epigraph] | rule |[i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]Benjamin Crayle,[/i] at the [i]Peacock[/i] | and [i]Bible,[/i] at the West-end of St. [i]Pauls.[/i] 1688.

Epigraph:

-----[i]pulcherrima Virgo | Incedit, magna Juvenum stipante caterva.[/i] Virg.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page: MISCELLANEA: | OR, THE | [g]Second Part[/g] | OF | POETICAL | RECREATIONS. | [rule] | Compos'd by several Authors. | [rule] | ---[i]Non, ubi plura intent in carmine, paucis | Offendi maculis, quasi aug in curia audit | Aut humana parum cavit Natura. -----[/i] Hor. | [rule] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]Benjamin Crayle,[/i] at the [i]Peacock[/i] | and [i]Bible,[/i] at the West-end of St. [i]Pauls.[/i] 1688.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Miscellany split into sections: 1) 'Part I. Occasionally Written by Mrs. Jane Barker.' 2) 'Part II. By several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others.'

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: 1) 'The Publisher to the Reader', pp. A3-A4v. 2) 'To Madam Jane Barker, On Her Incomparable Poems.' pp. A5-A6. 3) 'To the Ingenious Mrs. Barker, On her Excellent Poems.' pp. A6v-A7. 4) 'To the Ingenious Author, Mrs Jane Barker, on her Poems. pp. A7v-A8v. 5) 'In Elegantem Jane Barker Poeticen Epigramma.' p. A8 v. 6) 'To Mrs. Jane Barker, On her Ingenious Poems.' pp. a-av. 7) 'To the Incomparable Galaecia, On the Publication of Her Poems.' pp. a2-a2v. 8) 'A Table of the Poems Contained in the First Part of Poetical Recreations.' pp. a3-a4. End matter: 1) Advertisement 'Books lately Printed for Benj. Crayle, at the Peacock and Bible at the West-end of St.Paul's' p. 208.

References:

NCBEL 336 (1688)

Content/Publication

First Line:

As in the ancient chaos from whose womb

Page No:

pp. A7v-A8v

Poem Title:

To the Ingenious Author, Mrs. Jane Barker, On Her Poems.

Attribution:

Exilpus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell

Page No:

pp. A6v-A7r

Poem Title:

To the Ingenious Mrs. Barker, On Her Excellent Poems.

Attribution:

C.G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soon as some envious angel's willing hand

Page No:

pp. A5r-A6r

Poem Title:

To Madam Jane Barker, On Her Incomparable Poems.

Attribution:

Philaster.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We men would fain monopolise all wit

Page No:

pp. ar-av

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Jane Barker, On Her Ingenious Poems.

Attribution:

S. C. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When a new star does in the skies appear

Page No:

pp. a2r-a2v

Poem Title:

To the Incomparable Galaecia, On the Publication of Her Poems.

Attribution:

Fidelius.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If friends you would but now this place accost

Page No:

pp. 1-4

Poem Title:

Miscellany Poems. Part I. By Mrs. Jane Barker. An Invitation to my Friends at Cambridge.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Jane Barker.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

What fitter subject could be for thy wit

Page No:

pp. 4-6

Poem Title:

To Mr. Hill, on his Verses to the Dutchess of York, when she was at Cambridge.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Should I in tuneless lines strive to express

Page No:

pp. 6-8

Poem Title:

To my Cousin Mr. E. F. on his Excellent Painting.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Good sir if I could my resentments show

Page No:

pp. 8-10

Poem Title:

To my Reverend Friend Mr. H----. on his Presenting me The Reasonableness of Christianity, and The History of King Charles the First, &c.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear brother | thy marrying humour I dare scarce upbraid

Page No:

pp. 11-12

Poem Title:

To Mr. G. P. my Adopted Brother; on the nigh approach of his Nuptials.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Since oh ye powers ye have bestowed on me

Page No:

pp. 12-13

Poem Title:

A Virgin Life.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

When friends advice with lovers forces join

Page No:

pp. 14-15

Poem Title:

To my Friend Exillus, on his persuading me to Marry Old Damon.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

You had little reason to complain of me

Page No:

pp. 16-17

Poem Title:

To Dr. R. S. my indifferent Lover, who complain'd of my Indifferency.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

I dreamed I lost a pearl and so it proved

Page No:

pp. 18-19

Poem Title:

On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow, Mrs E. D. having Dream'd the night before I heard thereof, that I had lost a Pearl.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Well might the antients deem a grove to be

Page No:

pp. 20-3

Poem Title:

The Prospect of a Landskip, Beginning with a Grove.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Ah lovely stream how fitly may thou be

Page No:

pp. 24-7

Poem Title:

Sitting by a Rivulet.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Oh that I could verses write

Page No:

p. 27

Poem Title:

A Hill.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Bright shees what glories had your names acquired

Page No:

pp. 28-9

Poem Title:

To Ovid's Heroines in his Epistles.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

When vacant hours admit you to peruse

Page No:

p. 28

Poem Title:

To Sir F. W. presenting him Cowley's first Works.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear sir the joys which range through all your troops

Page No:

pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

To my Honourable Unkle Colonel C--- after his Return into the Low-Countries.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

I hope I shan't be blamed if I am proud

Page No:

pp. 31-4

Poem Title:

On the Apothecary's Filing my Bills amongst the Doctors.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

When last I saw thee thou did seem so kind

Page No:

pp. 34-6

Poem Title:

To my Unkind Strephon.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Fear not dear friend the lessening of thy fame

Page No:

pp. 37-8

Poem Title:

To my Friend Mr. S. L. On His Receiving the Name of Little Tom King.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

In vain in vain it is I find

Page No:

pp. 38-40

Poem Title:

Necessity of Fate.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Oh had I any charms of equal powers

Page No:

pp. 40-2

Poem Title:

To my Honoured Friend, Mr. E. S---t.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Like two sweet youths stripped naked on the Strand

Page No:

pp. 42-3

Poem Title:

On my Mother and my Lady W---. who both lay sick at the same time under the Hands of Dr. Paman.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Ah beauteous sex to you we're bound to give

Page No:

pp. 44-5

Poem Title:

In Commendation of the Female Sex. Out of Scipina.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear brother so far as you advance

Page No:

pp. 46-7

Poem Title:

To my Brother, whilst he was in France.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Come sorrow come embrace my yielding heart

Page No:

pp. 47-50

Poem Title:

On the Death of my Brother.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

What have I now to hope or fear

Page No:

pp. 51-6

Poem Title:

On the same. A Pindarique Ode.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

The heavens declare the glory of God

Page No:

pp. 56-7

Poem Title:

Part of the XIX. Psalm.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Farewell oh eyes which I never saw before

Page No:

p. 58

Poem Title:

Coming from ----- in a Dark Night.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear coz I hope by this time you have dried

Page No:

pp. 59-60

Poem Title:

To my Dear Cousin Mrs. M. T. after the Death of her Husband and Son.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Incautious youth why does thou so misplace

Page No:

pp. 61-2

Poem Title:

To My Young Lover.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Alas why made thou such a vow

Page No:

pp. 62-3

Poem Title:

To My Young Lover on His Vow.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

To praise sweet youth do thou forbear

Page No:

p. 64

Poem Title:

To My Young Lover. A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Well by experience now I see

Page No:

pp. 65-9

Poem Title:

To my Unkind Friend, Little Tom King.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Oft has my Muse and I fallen out

Page No:

pp. 70-2

Poem Title:

A Second Epistle. To my Honoured Friend Mr. E. S.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

I wonder what Alexis ails

Page No:

pp. 73-5

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Dialogue Betwixt Two Shepherd Boys.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

The honour that the air receives

Page No:

pp. 76-7

Poem Title:

To Mr. C. B. On his Incomparable Singing.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

How oft ah wretch hast thou profusely swore

Page No:

pp. 78-9

Poem Title:

The Complaint.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

In vain does nature her free gifts bestow

Page No:

pp. 79-80

Poem Title:

A Song in Scipina.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

The heart you left when you took mine

Page No:

p. 81

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Give over my Fidelius my Fidelius give over

Page No:

p. 82

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

As amorous Corydon was laid

Page No:

p. 83

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Troy had a breed of brave stout men

Page No:

pp. 84-5

Poem Title:

A Bachanalian Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

I've often thought but never till now could find

Page No:

pp. 86-7

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

I dread this tedious time more than

Page No:

pp. 87-8

Poem Title:

Absence for a Time.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Although thou now put me in doubt

Page No:

pp. 89-90

Poem Title:

Parting with -----

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Ah happy are we anchorites that know

Page No:

pp. 91

Poem Title:

Anchorite in Scipina.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Since thou wilt needs go

Page No:

pp. 92-3

Poem Title:

Jane, Nan, and Frank, their Farewell to Captain C. going to Sea.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

If you complain your flames are hot

Page No:

p. 94

Poem Title:

To her Lovers Complaint. A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear brother you will think that now

Page No:

pp. 95-6

Poem Title:

To my Adopted Brother, Mr. G. P. On my frequent Writing to Him.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Dear friends if you'll be ruled by me

Page No:

pp. 95-6

Poem Title:

To my Friends against Poetry.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Kind friend I prithee cease the intent

Page No:

pp. 97-8

Poem Title:

To The Importune Address of Poetry.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Farewell my gentle friend kind poetry

Page No:

pp. 99-106

Poem Title:

A Farewell to Poetry, With a Long Digression on Anatomy.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Ask me not why the rose doth fade

Page No:

p. 107

Poem Title:

On the Death of my Brother. A Sonnet.

Attribution:

Collected under Barker's name.

Attributed To:

Jane Barker

First Line:

Stand still ye floods do not deface

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

Song. On Sight of a Lady's Face in the Water.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true my friend my style is mean and low

Page No:

pp. 286-7

Poem Title:

An Excuse for not Rhiming in the Time of the Rebellion.

Attribution:

The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How full of troubles is the life of man

Page No:

pp. 1-3

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on an Hymn Sung when the Corps is at the Grave.

Attribution:

By T.S. Fellow of Maudlin=Colledge, Oxon.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Rise and rejoice all ye that mourn

Page No:

pp. 3-4

Poem Title:

Advice to his Friends, lamenting the Death of J. F.

Attribution:

By the same hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This fair young virgin for a nuptial bed

Page No:

p. 5

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mrs. E. F. who sickened of the Small Pox, and Deceased December the 31st. 1686. being the Day before her intended Nuptials.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye sacred relics which this marble keep

Page No:

pp. 6-7

Poem Title:

An Epitaph to Memory (fixed on the Tomb) of Sir Palme Fairborn, Governor of Tangier, who, in Execution of his Command, was Mortally Wounded by a Shot from the Moors, that then besieged the Town, Octob. 24. 1680.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What will my mourning yet no period find

Page No:

pp. 7-9

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the Death of N.D. Doctor Physick.

Attribution:

By J. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh thou Theanthropos who did contain

Page No:

pp. 10-12

Poem Title:

Upon Heaven.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The crimson them on which I now do treat

Page No:

pp. 12-15

Poem Title:

On the Martyrdom of King Charles the First.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Look upwards oh my soul and thou may see

Page No:

pp. 16-17

Poem Title:

Upon One's Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold an universal darkness has over spread

Page No:

pp. 17-19

Poem Title:

Upon Christ's Nativity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Early in the morn I waked and first my ear

Page No:

pp. 19-21

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let this days triumph over the world be crowned

Page No:

pp. 21-3

Poem Title:

More on the same Subject.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh time with wings thou well may painted be

Page No:

pp. 23-5

Poem Title:

On New-Years-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How wisely nature did decree

Page No:

pp. 26-8

Poem Title:

Eyes and Tears.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail fair commandress of a gentle pen

Page No:

pp. 29-32

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Jane Barker, on her most Delightfull and Excellent Romance of Scipina, now in the Press.

Attribution:

By J. N. Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Madam I can't but wonder why of late

Page No:

pp. 33-4

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Jane Barker, on her Resolution of Versifying no more.

Attribution:

'By the same Author.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair female conqueror we all submit

Page No:

pp. 35-6

Poem Title:

To the Incomparable Author, Mrs. Jane Barker, On her Excellent Romance of Scipina.

Attribution:

'By a Gentleman of St. John's College, Cambridge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The rose and other fragrant flowers smell best

Page No:

pp. 37-8

Poem Title:

On The Posthume and Precious Poems of Sir Matthew Hale, Late Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench.

Attribution:

'By a Gentleman of Lincolns-Inn'.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since the too bold aspiring angel fell

Page No:

pp. 38-9

Poem Title:

To the Admir'd Author, Mr. Thomas Wright, On His Incomparable Histories, Entitled, God's Revenge against Murther and Adultery, with the Triumphs of Friendship and Chastity. Newly published in a small Vol. 8o.

Attribution:

'By Mr. J. Whitehall.'

Attributed To:

John Whitehall

First Line:

Many tis true knew of this golden mine

Page No:

pp. 40-41

Poem Title:

To his Ingenious Friend, Mr. Thomas Wright, On His Compendious Histories Of Murther, Adultery, Friendship and Chastity. Some of the former being Epitomiz'd from Mr. Reynold's Murthers.

Attribution:

'By another Hand.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh God who art most excellent and wise

Page No:

pp. 42-3

Poem Title:

On Christmas-day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Naked I came from out my mother's womb

Page No:

pp. 44-6

Poem Title:

Upon Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when the labouring sun hath wrought his track

Page No:

pp. 47-8

Poem Title:

On the Divine Spirit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the dread summons of commanding fate

Page No:

pp. 48-52

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Illustrious Prince George, Duke of Buckingham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis well he's gone O had he never been

Page No:

pp. 53-5

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of Oliver Cromwell. In Answer to Mr. W----'s Verses.

Attribution:

'By Mr. Godolphin.'

Attributed To:

Mr. Godolphin

First Line:

Robbed of our rights and by such water-rats

Page No:

pp. 55-8

Poem Title:

On the Last Dutch War.

Attribution:

'By Mr. Benjamin Willy, sometime Master of the Free-School of Newark upon Trent.'

Attributed To:

Benjamin Willy

First Line:

Wretch that I am and is it come to this

Page No:

pp. 59-61

Poem Title:

The Last Sayings of a Mouse, Lately Starved in a Cupboard. As they were taken in Short-hand by a Zealous Rat-catcher, who listend at the Key-hole of the Cupboard Door.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With care peruse the lines I send

Page No:

pp. 62-4

Poem Title:

Epitaph on the Secretary to the Muses.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this weeping monumental stone

Page No:

pp. 65-6

Poem Title:

Epitaph on the Secretary to the Muses.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Were I a spirit to choose for my own share

Page No:

pp. 67-82

Poem Title:

A Satyr, in Answer to the Satyr against Man.

Attribution:

'By T. L. of Wadham Colledge, Oxon.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since heaven your righteous curse has owned

Page No:

pp. 83-4

Poem Title:

A Congratulatory Poem To His most Sacred Majesty James the Second &c. On His late Victories o'er the Rebels in the West.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could I but use my pen as you your sword

Page No:

p. 85

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst with a strong yet with a gentle hand

Page No:

pp. 86-90

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick On His Present Majesty James the Second: Occasionally Written since His late Victories detained over the Scotch and Western Rebels.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No sooner doth the aged phoenix die

Page No:

pp. 91-4

Poem Title:

A Congratulatory Poem on His Sacred Majesty James the Second's Succession to the Crown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Walking abroad to taste the welcome spring

Page No:

p. 94

Poem Title:

On The Presentation Of A Bird to his Mistriss.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Within a virgin's bosom of fifteen

Page No:

pp. 95-7

Poem Title:

Advice to Silly Maids

Attribution:

'By an Unknown Author.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be prudent ladies marry while you may

Page No:

pp. 98-9

Poem Title:

Father Advice to Young Ladies.

Attribution:

'By another Hand.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Mrs Anne I'm certain you'll find true

Page No:

pp. 100-1

Poem Title:

Advice to a Town-Miss.

Attribution:

'By Mr. Worsdell.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She that intends ever in rest to be

Page No:

pp. 102-3

Poem Title:

The Preference of a Single Life before Marriage.

Attribution:

'Written at the Request of a Lady. By the same.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So have I seen the sun in his full pride

Page No:

pp. 103-4

Poem Title:

Upon Clarinda's Putting on Her Vizard Mask.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dame nature seems to make your sisters stand

Page No:

p. 105

Poem Title:

The Middle Sister

Attribution:

'Ascribed to Clarinda.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some do compare their mistress in dull rhymes

Page No:

pp. 106-8

Poem Title:

An Elogy on Mrs. M. H.

Attribution:

'By a Student of the Inner-Temple.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To what kind god am I in debt for this

Page No:

pp. 109-11

Poem Title:

A Love-Poem.

Attribution:

'By an Oxford Gentleman.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pride of the world in beauty power and love

Page No:

pp. 112-3

Poem Title:

Another Love-Poem.

Attribution:

'By the same Author.'

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Not attributed

First Line:

Let me not sigh my last before I breathe

Page No:

pp. 114-15

Poem Title:

The Lover's Will.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Sweet lady | your conquering eyes have by their magic art

Page No:

pp. 116-7

Poem Title:

A Love-Letter.

Attribution:

'By W. S. M. D.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glory which we see invest these flowers

Page No:

p. 118

Poem Title:

A Speech to his Mistress in a Garden.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Madam I hope though I a stranger am

Page No:

pp. 119-121

Poem Title:

An Address to a Gentlewoman Walking in a Garden.

Attribution:

'By an Oxford Gentleman.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not hear my message but the bearer shun

Page No:

pp. 122-5

Poem Title:

Upon a Gentlewomans Refusal of a Letter from one she was ingaged to.

Attribution:

'By Sir C. S.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fine shape good features and a handsome face

Page No:

pp. 125-8

Poem Title:

In Praise of a Deformed, but Virtuous, Lady; or, A Satyr on Beauty

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Madam | Twould prove a needles thing should I

Page No:

pp. 129-31

Poem Title:

A Love-Letter.

Attribution:

'By W. S. Gent.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Letters are winged postillions and do move

Page No:

pp. 131-3

Poem Title:

In Praise of Letters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Art thou then absent oh thou dear

Page No:

pp. 133-4

Poem Title:

The Idea.

Attribution:

'By Charles Cotton, Esq;.'

Attributed To:

Charles Cotton

First Line:

Soul of my soul it cannot be

Page No:

pp. 134-5

Poem Title:

Love's Sympathy.

Attribution:

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First Line:

To tune thy praise what muse shall I invoke what quire

Page No:

p. 136

Poem Title:

A Pindarique Ode on Mr. Cowley.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Oh ye blessed powers propitious be

Page No:

pp. 137-8

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

'By Mr. R. D. of Cambridge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I wonder why dame nature thus

Page No:

pp. 138-9

Poem Title:

An Ode of Anacreon Paraphras'd. Beauties Force.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Madam at first I thought

Page No:

pp. 140-2

Poem Title:

A Pindarique Od.

Attribution:

'By Mr. John Whitehall.'

Attributed To:

John Whitehall

First Line:

Pressed with my thoughts I to confession fall

Page No:

pp. 142-144

Poem Title:

From Ovid's Amorum, lib. 2. El. 4. and Lucretius, lib. 4. That he loves Women of all sorts and sizes.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As when proud Lucifer aimed at a throne

Page No:

pp. 145-7

Poem Title:

The Parallel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Musing on cares of humane fate

Page No:

pp. 147-8

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tush never tell me I'm too young

Page No:

p. 149

Poem Title:

Song. The Young Lover.

Attribution:

'By Mr. Wright.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am a lusty lively lad

Page No:

pp. 150-1

Poem Title:

Song. The Prodigal's Resolution.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I love but that I fear

Page No:

pp. 151-2

Poem Title:

Song. The Doubtfull Lover Resolv'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Did you see this cup of liquor

Page No:

p. 153

Poem Title:

Song. The Cavalier's Catch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

If mighty wealth that gives the rules

Page No:

pp. 155-6

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Of hoods demolished towers laid full low

Page No:

pp. 156-8

Poem Title:

On the Serpentine Combustion by Squibs on my Lord Mayor's Day. An Heroick Poem. Written Octob. 29. 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hold there's enough nay tis over mickle

Page No:

pp. 159-60

Poem Title:

To My Much-Esteemed Friend Mr. J. N. on His Reading the first lines of Pindar

Attribution:

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First Line:

Ah Jack had thou been the other day

Page No:

pp. 161-71

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Jack and Dick, Concerning the Prohibition of French Wines.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soar now my muse to an unusual flight

Page No:

pp. 172-4

Poem Title:

To Clarinda on her Incomparable Painting and Wax-work. Written Septemb. 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Peace doting wretch for ever cease thy faith

Page No:

174-6

Poem Title:

A Young Man to an Old Woman, Courting him. In Imitation of a Modern Author.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tempt me not with your face that's fair

Page No:

pp. 177-8

Poem Title:

To Clarinda. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By no discovery have I ever revealed

Page No:

pp. 179-4

Poem Title:

On His Secret Passion For Cosmelia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true Clarinda once I did resign

Page No:

pp. 185-6

Poem Title:

To Clarinda, on His Deserting her, and loving Cosinelia.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell fair mistress of my chief desires

Page No:

pp. 187-8

Poem Title:

To Cosmelia, on Her Departure into the Countrey,.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Sweet fading flower that with the sun's uprise

Page No:

pp. 188-9

Poem Title:

On a Rose sticking on a Ladies Breast.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the hand which to our longing sight

Page No:

pp. 190-1

Poem Title:

On the Most Charming Galecia's Picture.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Too rigid too censorious and severe

Page No:

pp. 192-4

Poem Title:

The Young Lover's Advocate: Being An Answer to a Copy of Verses.

Attribution:

'Written by Galaecia to her Young Lover on his Vow.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could I the censure of each critic dread

Page No:

pp. 194-6

Poem Title:

To my Ingenious Friend, Mrs. Jane Barker, On My Publishing her Romance of Scipina.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since oh ye powers it is by your decree

Page No:

pp. 197-8

Poem Title:

A Batchelor's Life, in pursuit of Mrs. Barker's Verses in Praise of a Single Life.

Attribution:

'By the Author of the Ten preceding Copies.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the man thrice happy be

Page No:

p. 199

Poem Title:

The Exchange of Hearts. A Song. By the same. Being an Answer to a Song in the 81st Page of the First Part.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Scarce had the prancing coursers of the world

Page No:

pp. 200-3

Poem Title:

Upon a Flock of Gold-Finches Seen in the Morning.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Nor needs he slender verse his mighty flame

Page No:

pp. 204-7

Poem Title:

The Poet's Answer to One, Complaining of their Negligence, in not Writing the Duke of Buckingham's Elegy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where shall I find a close concealed abode

Page No:

pp. 207-9

Poem Title:

Psalm the CXXXIX. Paraphras'd from Verse the 7. to Verse the 13.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

A lowly swain loved a proud nymph in vain

Page No:

pp. 210-18

Poem Title:

A Pastoral, In Imitation of Virgil's Second Eclogue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Yet let me one more youthful tale rehearse

Page No:

pp. 219-25

Poem Title:

The Fourth Elegy of Cornelius Gallus, of the Miseries of Old Age. Made English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My love to thee no beauty shall betray

Page No:

pp. 226-7

Poem Title:

To my Mistriss. Translated out of Tibullus.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Close by a silver rivulet

Page No:

pp. 228-30

Poem Title:

The Agreement.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Damon to Sylvia when alone

Page No:

pp. 231-2

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The air was calm the sky serene and clear

Page No:

pp. 232-3

Poem Title:

The Innocent Discovery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh use me gently since I am your slave

Page No:

pp. 234-5

Poem Title:

The Petition. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou knowest my fair how much I love

Page No:

pp. 235-6

Poem Title:

Fate. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Me in the church tis true you often see

Page No:

pp. 237-9

Poem Title:

My Religion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh take not this sweet kiss so soon away

Page No:

pp. 239-40

Poem Title:

The Kiss.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain I strive with business to remove

Page No:

p. 241

Poem Title:

The Wrack.

Attribution:

'Set by Mr. G. Hart.'

Attributed To:

G. Hart

First Line:

What equal thanks what gratitude is due

Page No:

pp. 242-4

Poem Title:

To Mr P. Berault upon his French Grammar.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Evadne I must tell you so

Page No:

p. 245

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Evadne I must let you know

Page No:

p. 246

Poem Title:

The same Song Inverted.

Attribution:

'By Mr. Walker.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An amorous little swain

Page No:

pp. 247-54

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the 23d Idyll. of Theocritus, from the beginning to [Greek epitaph]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fortune thou setter up of kings

Page No:

pp. 255-8

Poem Title:

Chorus 1. Of Seneca's Agamemnon.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By heaven tis scarce ten days ago

Page No:

pp. 259-61

Poem Title:

The Penitent.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh cruel proud and fair

Page No:

pp. 262-3

Poem Title:

To Duserastes.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do you vex me with continual fears

Page No:

pp. 263-5

Poem Title:

The Vow.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No more he's gone with angel's wings he fled

Page No:

pp. 265-8

Poem Title:

An Elegy on King Charles the Second, who dyed of an Apoplexy.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Keep now my muse the great pindaric road

Page No:

pp. 269-79

Poem Title:

A Dithyrambique, Made just before the King and Queen Went to Their Coronation.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great sir | your presence still we would implore

Page No:

pp. 280-3

Poem Title:

To Their Graces, The Duke and Dutchess of Albemarle, Upon Their Voyage for Jamaica.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go sparkling ring my fair one's finger bind

Page No:

pp. 283-4

Poem Title:

Ovid. Amor. lib. 2. Eleg. 15. A Ring Presented to his Mistress.

Attribution:

'The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This for an hundred pounds engaged to me

Page No:

p. 285.0

Poem Title:

To Afer. Martial. epig. 31. lib 4.

Attribution:

The Five following Copies done by Mr. C. G. of Aeton-Colledge

Attributed To:

Not attributed