Pranceriana Poetica: Or, Prancer's Garland [ecco] [N20974]
- DMI number:
- 1366
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- N20974
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB130538541
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- PRANCERIANA POETICA; | OR, | PRANCER'S GARLAND. | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | FUGITIVE POEMS, | WRITTEN SINCE THE | PUBLICATION | OF | PRANCERIANA | AND THE | APPENDIX. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED IN THE YEAR, M.DCC.LXXIX. | [PRICE, 1s. 7d. h.]
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Topical miscellany and Political miscellany
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: address 'To the Right Honourable Sir J--n B-q-re, Knight of the Bath, Alnager of all Ireland, and Bailiff of the Phoenix-Park' signed 'The Editor' pp. iii-x; Preface pp. xi-xii; Contents [4pp.].
- Title:
- Pranceriana Poetica: Or, Prancer's Garland [ecco] [T206504]
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- ESTC No:
- T206504
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A harlequin p-v-st cognomine prancer
- Page No:
- pp.1-9
- Poem Title:
- Harlequin Prancer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where bound with laurels of eternal green
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Number 2. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arms books and him I sing whose talents rare
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- Specimen Of An Epic Poem
- Attribution:
- By J. Gilburne, M. D.
- Attributed To:
- J. Gilburne
- First Line:
- Now scarce a client round thee waits
- Page No:
- pp.15-17
- Poem Title:
- No. 3. Monday, Moarch 4th, 1776. An Ode In Imitation of Horace addressed to Prancer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing of a dervise whose name is Ben Saddi
- Page No:
- pp.18-21
- Poem Title:
- No. 4. Wednesday, March 13th, 1776. Saddi; Or, The Lad of the South Country. A New Ballad. To the Tune of "The Lass of the North Country."
- Attribution:
- A. Ramsay.
- Attributed To:
- A. Ramsay
- First Line:
- Why droops my friend why weeps his downcast eye
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- No. 5. Wednesday, March 13th, 1776. Prancer's Lamentation.
- Attribution:
- Polemon.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In days of yore tis said that oaken
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- No. 6. Monday, March 18th, 1776. The humble Appeal of the P-t's old oaken Chair in the C-ge to the V-tors.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Berwick's cause tried by the laws
- Page No:
- pp.26-28
- Poem Title:
- No. 7. Wednesday, March 20th, 1776. A New Ballad. (To the Tune of Push about the Jorum.)
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The younger part of human kind
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- No. 8. Friday, March 29th, 1776. The Coss'd Dog, and the Cat in the Bowl-Dish
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As stories tell in distant clime
- Page No:
- pp.31-34
- Poem Title:
- No. 9. Friday, April 5th, 1776. The Story of the Cap and Bells.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The clock struck twelve and sleepless echo caught
- Page No:
- pp.35-38
- Poem Title:
- No. 10. Monday, April 15th, 1776.
- Attribution:
- Hibernicus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God prosper long our visitors
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- No. 11. Friday, April 19th, 1776. The Appeal; Or, Evidence of the Boots.
- Attribution:
- T. C.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Proud of imagined arbitrary sway
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- No. 12. Monday, April 22d, 1776. On the Issue of a late Appeal; Or, Prancer in Perplexity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Upon a splendid sofa Prancer sat
- Page No:
- pp.43-45
- Poem Title:
- No. 13. Monday, May 6th, 1776. Prancer's Soliloquy, A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well I have known old trinity these forty years and more this spring
- Page No:
- pp.46-49
- Poem Title:
- No. 14. Wednesday, May 8th, 1776. Minister, the Badgman's Letter to Prancer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah well away the gentle Ruff is dead
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- No. 15. Wednesday, May 8th, 1776. An Elegy On the Death of Toby Ruff, the Dog of the Rev. W-m R-n, J. F. T. C. D.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nebuchadnezar did of old
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- No. 16. Wednesday, May 8th, 1776. The Graven Image.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Detested be the luckless hour
- Page No:
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- No. 17. Friday, May 10th, 1776. The Lamentation of Alma Mater.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One evening Prancer tired at home
- Page No:
- pp.58-61
- Poem Title:
- No. 18. Monday, May 20th, 1776. The Visit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go go you vile bear
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- No. 19. Wednesday, May 22d, 1776. A Friendly Tete-a-Tete between Prancer and Saddi. [Tune, Come let us prepare.]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas at election feast for college won
- Page No:
- pp.64-67
- Poem Title:
- No. 20. Monday, June 3d, 1776. Prancer's Feast; Or the Power of Oratorial Flattery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye paltry scribblers fie for shame
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Number 21. A New Ballad. In Defence Of Prancer. (To the Tune of Nancy Dawson.)
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since love of wealth of splendor power
- Page No:
- pp.73-85
- Poem Title:
- The Mock Patriot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I address you my lord an Ecclesiae Primarius
- Page No:
- pp.86-88
- Poem Title:
- Number 23. The humble Petition of Alma Mater. Addressed to his Grace the Lord Primate of all Ireland.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Conscious of guilt deserted by his friends
- Page No:
- pp.89-91
- Poem Title:
- Number 24. Prancer's Petition, To the A-b-p of D-b-n.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee dear B-n I vent my dismal moans
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Number 25. An Epistle, From Don Prancero, to B-j-n H-n-n, Esq; King of the Beggars.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Duignan the muse to thee her tribute pays
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- Number 26. To Doctor Duignan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- His beggarly cure when old barebone deserted
- Page No:
- pp.96-99
- Poem Title:
- Number 27. Barebone's Garland, An Excellent New Ditty, Now singing with universal Applause, on the Mountebank's Stage in College-Green.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some folks are mistaken
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Number 28. On Prancer's Dog Pompey's supposed Quarrel with his Master.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How comes it Pompey that thy troubled brow
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Number 29. Prancer's Downfal. Act I. Scene I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where tyranny usurps her black domain
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- On Tyranny
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I received my dear daughter your letter at dinner
- Page No:
- pp.118-122
- Poem Title:
- The Letter. To Mrs M. C. Rudd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I depend dear mama on maternal affection
- Page No:
- pp.123-129
- Poem Title:
- Number 33. Mrs. Rudd's reply to Miss M-t N-y's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I hope my dear girl you received my last letter
- Page No:
- pp.130-133
- Poem Title:
- Number 33. Letter II. To M. C. Rudd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear madam although I must own you are clever
- Page No:
- pp.134-138
- Poem Title:
- Number 35. Jack Prancer's Letter. To Mrs. M. C. Rudd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wouldst thou o reader in ambition's chase
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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