Prologues and epilogues, celebrated for their poetical merit [ecco] [N12159]
- DMI number:
- 1278
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- N12159
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110408787
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - OX Chch.
- Full Title:
- [i]PROLOGUES[/i] | AND | [i]EPILOGUES,[/i] | CELEBRATED FOR THEIR POETICAL MERIT. | [double rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]OXFORD:[/i] | PRINTED BY W. JACKSON, AND SOLD BY | S. BLADON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. | [short rule] | [i]Price 3s.[/i]
- Epigraph:
- SPEAK THE SPEECH, I PR'YTHEE, AS I PRO-| NOUNCE IT. -- | SHAKESPEARE.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 3 s
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece
- Comments:
- Date: no date on title page. ESTC suggests [1780?]
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Contents [6pp.]
- Printer:
- William Jackson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- S. Bladon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- It is not strange to hear a poet say
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Wild Gallant, when first acted.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The wild gallant has quite played out his game
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue When the Wild Gallant was first acted.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As some raw squire by tender mother bred
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Prologue At the Revival of the Wild Gallant.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all dramatic writing comic wit
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue On the same occasion.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis much desired you judges of the town
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. To Dryden's Rival Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. To the Indian Queen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You see what shifts we are enforced to try
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. To the Indian Queen. Spoken by Montezuma.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Almighty critics whom our indians here
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Indian Emperor.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To all and singular in this full meeting
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Indian Emperor. Spoken by a Mercury.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He who writ this not without pains and thought
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our poet something doubtful of his fate
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Maiden Queen
- Attribution:
- By a Person of Honour.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fools which each man meets in his dish each day
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Sir Martin Marr-All.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As country vicars when the sermon's done
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Sir Martin Mar-All.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when a tree's cut down the secret root
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Tempest.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Gallants by all good signs it does appear
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Tempest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first our poet set himself to write
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Mock Astrologer.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- My part being small I have had time today
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Mock Astrologer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Self love which never rightly understood
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Tyrannick Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hold are you mad you damned confounded dog
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Tyrannick Love. Spoken by Mrs. Ellen Gwynne, when she was to be carried off dead.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This jest was first of the other house's making
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To the First Part of Dryden's Conquest of Granada. Spoken by Mrs. Ellen Guyn, in a broad-brimm'd Hat, and Waist-belt.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Success which can no more than beauty last
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the First Part of the Conquest of Granada.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They who write ill and they who never durst write
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They who have best succeeded on the stage
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lord how reformed and quiet are we grown
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Marriage A-La-Mode.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Marriage A-La-Mode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prologues like bells to churches toll you in
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Love in a Nunnery.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Some have expected from our bills today
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Love In A Nunnery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Amboyna.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A poet once the spartans led to fight
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Amboyna.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our author by experience finds it true
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Aurenge Zebe, or the Great Mogul.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A pretty task and so I told the fool
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Aurenge Zebe, or the Great Mogul.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What flocks of critics hover here today
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. To Dryden's All for Love, or the World Well Lost.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poets like disputants when reasons fail
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To All for Love, or the World Well Lost.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I beg a boon that ere you all disband
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Dryden's Limberham, or the Kind Keeper. Spoken by Limberham.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When Athens all the Grecian state did guide
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Oedipus
- Attribution:
- Written by Dryden and Lee
- Attributed To:
- John DrydenNathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- What Sophocles could undertake alone
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Oedipus
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See my loved britons see your Shakespeare rise
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. Spoken by Mr. Betterton, representing the Ghost of Shakespeare.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- These cruel critics put me into passion
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Troilus and Cressida.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now luck for us and a kind hearty pit
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. To Dryden's Spanish Friar.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There's none I'm sure who is a friend to love
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To The Spanish Friar.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend of the Author's.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our play's a parallel the holy league
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden and Lee's Duke of Guise.
- Attribution:
- Dryden and Lee
- Attributed To:
- John DrydenNathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Much time and trouble this poor play has cost
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To The Duke of Guise.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Full twenty years and more our labouring stage
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Opera of Albion and Albanius.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- After our Aesop's fable shown today
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Opera of Albion and Albanius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The judge removed though he's no more my lord
- Page No:
- pp.55-66
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Don Sebastian King of Portugal. Spoken by a Woman.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I quaked at heart for fear the royal fashion
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Don Sebastian King of Portugal. Spoken betwixt Antonio and Morayma.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm thinking and it almost makes me mad
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias. Spoken by Phaedra.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I think or hope at least the coast is clear
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- This day the poet bloodily inclined
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Oopera of King Arthur, or the British Worthy.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I've had today a dozen billet doux
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the Opera of King Arthur, or the British Worthy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when some treasurer lays down the stick
- Page No:
- pp.66-68
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Dryden's Love Triumphant, or, Nature will prevail
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now in good manners nothing should be said
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. To Love Triumphant, or, Nature will Prevail.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poets your subjects have their parts assigned
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken before the University of Oxford, in 1674.
- Attribution:
- Written by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A plain built house after so long a stay
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken at the opening of the New House in March, 1674.
- Attribution:
- Written by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Though what our prologue said was sadly true
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue On the same Occasion.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were you but half so wise as you are severe
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Dr. Davenant's Circe.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As Jupiter I made my court in vain
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...Intended to have been spoken by the Lady Henr. Mar. Wentworth, when Calisto was acted at court.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...To Sir G. Etherege's Man of Mode, 1676.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...to Mr. N. Lee's Mithridates King of Pontus. 1678.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The unhappy man who once has trailed a pen
- Page No:
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Mr. N. Lee's Caesar Borgia. 1680.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thespis the first professor of our art
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Sophonisba, performed at Oxford, 1680.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to the University of Oxford, 1681.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In those cold regions which no summers cheer
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to his Royal Highness, Upon his first appearance at the Duke's Theatre, after his Return from Scotland, 1682.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When first the ark was landed on the shore
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Mr. J. Banks's Earl of Essex, 1682. Spoken to the King and Queen at their coming to the House.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poets like lawful monarchs ruled the stage
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Mr. Southerne's Loyal Brothers; or, The Persian Prince. 1682.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A virgin poet was served up today
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...to the same.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion
- Page No:
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...To Mr. N. Lee's Constantine the Great. 1684.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How comes it gentlemen that nowadays
- Page No:
- pp.90-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Mr. Southerne's Disappointment; or, the Mother in Fashion. 1684. spoken by Mr. Betterton.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Since faction ebbs and rogues grow out of fashion
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To the King and Queen, upon the union of the two Companies in 1686.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- New ministers when first they get in place
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...on the same occasion
- Attribution:
- By Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Mr. N. Lee's Princess of Cleves. 1689.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A qualm of conscience brings me back again
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...to the same
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heaven save ye gallants and this hopeful age
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Mrs. Behn's Widow Ranter. 1690.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue....to Mr. Mountfort's Henry II. 1693. Spoken by Mrs Bracegirdle.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- If there be yet a few that take delight
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ladies the beardless author of this day
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...to Mr. Saunders's Tamerlane.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What Nostradame with all his art can guess
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Beaumont and Fletcher's Prophetess. Revived by Mr. Dryden. Spoken by Mr. Betterton.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What Greece when learning flourished only knew
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To the University of Oxford. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the acting of the Silent Woman.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No poor Dutch peasant winged with all his fear
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...spoken by the same.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oft has our poet wished this happy seat
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...Spoken at Oxford by Mrs. Marshall.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Discord and plots which have undone our age
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To the University of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- By Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Though actors cannot much of learning boast
- Page No:
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To the University of Oxford
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To say this comedy pleased long ago
- Page No:
- pp.112-114
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Albumazar.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With sickly actors and an old house too
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...Spoken at the Revival of Arvigarus and Philicia, written by Lodowick Carell, Esq.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So shipwrecked passengers escape to land
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...Spoken the first Day of the King's House acting after the Fire.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Were none of you gallants ever driven so hard
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...for the King's House.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- We act by fits and starts like drowning men
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue...For the King's House.
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Gallants a bashful poet bids me say
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wit long oppressed and filled at last with rage
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. N. Lee's Theodosius; or, the Force of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Thrice happy they that never writ before
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long has the tribe of poets on the stage
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. N. Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- No cringing sirs the poet's champion I
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not careful leaders when the trumpets call
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. N. Lee's Mithridates, King of Pontus.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Well then be you his judges what pretence
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Mr. N. Lee's Caesar Borgia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- What think ye meant wise providence when first
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. N. Lee's Constantine the Great.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- To this learned audience gladly we submit
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Mr. Lee's Sophonisba, spoken at Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Good plays and perfect sense as scarce are grow
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. N. Lee's Nero, Emperor of Rome.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- How dull how grave and how precise ye fit
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He whose attempt is shown this night to please
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Lee's Gloriana; or, the Court of Aug. Caesar.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- You servants gentleman tis a long time
- Page No:
- pp.134-136
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How hard the fate is of the scribbling drudge
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Lee's Rival Queens; or the Death of Alexander the Great.
- Attribution:
- Written by Sir Car Scroop, Bart.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Carr Scrope
- First Line:
- Whatever they mean yet ought they to be cursed
- Page No:
- pp.137-139
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This day we show you the most bloody rage
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To Mr N. Lee's Massacre of Paris.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Mountfort
- Attributed To:
- William Mountfort
- First Line:
- How wise they are that can with patience bear
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Powell.
- Attributed To:
- George Powell
- First Line:
- Who could expect such crowding here today
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir G. Etherege's Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub.
- Attribution:
- Sir G. Etherege
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- Sir Frederick now I am revenged on you
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Like dancers on the ropes poor poets fare
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir G. Etherege's Man of Mode.
- Attribution:
- Written by Sir Car Scroope, Baronet.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Carr Scrope
- First Line:
- The ladies have a lonely summer passed
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Southerne's Anthony Love; or, the Rambling Lady.
- Attribution:
- Southerne
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- If novelty has any charms to move
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gallants you're welcome to our homely cheer
- Page No:
- pp.148-149
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Southerne's Wives Excuse; or Cuckolds make Themselves.
- Attribution:
- Southerne
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- My character not being much in vogue
- Page No:
- pp.149-150
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. In the Character of Mrs. Friendall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They who must write for writing's a disease
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Southerne's Maid's Lady Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- See the effects of a poor maid's last prayer
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When once a poet settles an ill name
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Southerne's Fatal Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Southerne
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- Now tell me when you saw the lady die
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when in hostile times two neighbouring states
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Southerne's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave.
- Attribution:
- Southerne
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- You see we try all shapes and shifts and arts
- Page No:
- pp.156-157
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Our bard resolved to quit this wicked town
- Page No:
- pp.157-159
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. T. Southerne's Fate of Capua.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Boyle
- First Line:
- Poets fine titles for themselves may find
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Written by Colonel Codrington
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Codrington
- First Line:
- When realms are ravaged with invasive foes
- Page No:
- pp.160-162
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. T. Southerne's Spartan Dame.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Fenton.
- Attributed To:
- Elijah Fenton
- First Line:
- Our author's muse a numerous issue boasts
- Page No:
- pp.162-163
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Written by Major Richardson Pack.
- Attributed To:
- Richardson Pack
- First Line:
- How this vile world is changed in former days
- Page No:
- pp.163-164
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Old Batchelor.
- Attribution:
- Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- As a rash girl who will all hazards run
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Moors have this way as story tells to know
- Page No:
- pp.165-166
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Double Dealer.
- Attribution:
- Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Could poets but foresee how plays would take
- Page No:
- pp.167-168
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The husbandman in vain renews his toil
- Page No:
- pp.168-169
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Love for Love. Spoken At the Opening of the New-House.
- Attribution:
- Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Sure providence at first designed this place
- Page No:
- pp.170-171
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The time has been when plays were not so plenty
- Page No:
- pp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Mournign Bride.
- Attribution:
- Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- The tragedy thus done I am you know
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of those few fools who with ill stars are cursed
- Page No:
- pp.174-175
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Congreve's Way of the World.
- Attribution:
- Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- After our epilogue this crowd dismisses
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By this repeated act of grace we see
- Page No:
- pp.176-177
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...to Queen Mary, Upon her Majesty's coming to see the Old Batchelor, after having seen the Double Dealer.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Whatever future fate our house may find
- Page No:
- pp.178-179
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue At the Opening of the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, with an Italian Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Our age has much improved the warrior's art
- Page No:
- pp.179-180
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Hopkins's Pyrrhus King of Epirus.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- The happy muse to this high scene preferred
- Page No:
- pp.180-181
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Court, On the Queen's Birth-Day, 1704.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- This year has been remarkable two ways
- Page No:
- pp.181-183
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Dryden junior's Husband His Own Cuckold.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Never did rhymer greater hazard run
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Alcibiades.
- Attribution:
- Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Now who says poets don't in blood delight
- Page No:
- pp.184-185
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken in the Character of Deidamia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gallants our author met me here today
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Titus and Berenice, with the Cheats of Scapin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How little do you guess what I'm to say
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Mrs. Mary Lee, when she was out of humour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How hard a task hath that poor drudge of stage
- Page No:
- pp.187-188
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Friendship in Fashion,
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Well sirs if now my spouse and I should part
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first our author took this play in hand
- Page No:
- pp.189-190
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Don Carlos.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Now what do ye think my message hither means
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by a little Girl.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you great judges in this writing age
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Orphan, or the Unhappy Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You've seen one orphan ruined here and I
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ages past when will those times renew
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's History and Fall of Caius Marius.
- Attribution:
- Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- A mischief on it though I'm again alive
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken in the Character of Lavinia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Forsaken dames with less concern reflect
- Page No:
- pp.196-197
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Soldier's Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Written by Lord Falkland.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With the discharge of passions much oppressed
- Page No:
- pp.197-198
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though plays and prologues never did more abound
- Page No:
- pp.199-200
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Atheist, or Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- It is not long since in the noisy pit
- Page No:
- pp.200-201
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Duke of Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- In these distracted times when each man dreads
- Page No:
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Otway's Venice Preserved.
- Attribution:
- Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The text is done and now for application
- Page No:
- pp.203-204
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When too much plenty luxury and ease
- Page No:
- pp.204-206
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken Upon His Royal Highness the Duke of York coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We might well call this short mock-play of ours
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To George Villiers Duke of Buckingham's Rehearsal.
- Attribution:
- George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- George Villiers
- First Line:
- The play is at an end but where's the plot
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all men those have reason least to care
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To George Villiers Duke of Buckingham's Chances.
- Attribution:
- George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- George Villiers
- First Line:
- Perhaps you gentlemen expect today
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hope to mend Shakespeare or to match his style
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham's Alteration of Julius Caesar.
- Attribution:
- John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Our scene is Athens and great Athens named
- Page No:
- pp.211-212
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham's Marcus Brutus.
- Attribution:
- John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- To all impartial judges in the pit
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Banks's Virtue Betrayed, or Anna Bullen.
- Attribution:
- Written by A Person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well sirs your kind opinion now I pray
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The merchant joyful with the hopes of gain
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Banks's Earl of Essex. Spoken by Major Mahon, the first four Days.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Banks
- Attributed To:
- John Banks
- First Line:
- When all that we thought great and good was gone
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Banks's Cyrus The Great. Addressed to her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Banks
- Attributed To:
- John Banks
- First Line:
- Hold is the play done
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by a Boy and Girl, by way of Dialogue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Custom which bids the thief from cart harangue
- Page No:
- pp.219-220
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Wycherley's Love in a Wood.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Wycherley
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Now my brisk brothers of the pit you'll say
- Page No:
- pp.220
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Dapperwit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our author like us finding twould scarce do
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Wycherley's Gentleman Dancing-Master. Addressed to the City.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Wycherley
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- The ladies first I am to compliment
- Page No:
- pp.222-223
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Flirt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I the plain dealer am to act today
- Page No:
- pp.223-225
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Wycherley's Plain Dealer. Spoken by the Plain Dealer.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Wycherley
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- To you the judges learned in stage laws
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by the Widow Blackacre.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poets like cudgeled bullies never do
- Page No:
- pp.226-227
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Wycherley's Country Wife.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Wycherley
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Now you the vigorous who daily here
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art
- Page No:
- pp.228-230
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Addison's Cato.
- Attribution:
- Written by Alexander Pope, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In this grave age when comedies are few
- Page No:
- pp.231-232
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mr. Addison's Drummer, or the Haunted House.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- To night the poet's advocate I stand
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Mrs. Oldfield, in the Character of Lady Trueman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nature deserted and dramatic art
- Page No:
- pp.234-235
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Richard Steele's Funeral, or Grief A-la-mode.
- Attribution:
- Sir Richard Steele
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Steele
- First Line:
- Love hope and fear desire aversion rage
- Page No:
- pp.235-236
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Lord Hardy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In the first rise and infancy of farce
- Page No:
- pp.236-237
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Richard Steele's Tender Husband.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Britons who constant war with factious rage
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our too adventurous author soared tonight
- Page No:
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All the commanding powers that awe mankind
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Richard Steele's Lying Lover, or the Ladies Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Sir Richard Steele
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Steele
- First Line:
- To win your hearts and to secure your praise
- Page No:
- pp.240-241
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Richard Steele's Conscious Lovers.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Welsten. [sic]
- Attributed To:
- Leonard Welsted
- First Line:
- Our author whom entreaties cannot move
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Intended to be spoken by Indiana.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Welsted.
- Attributed To:
- Leonard Welsted
- First Line:
- Ladies this play in too much haste was writ
- Page No:
- pp.243-244
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's Relapse, or Virtue in Danger.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- First Line:
- Gentlemen and ladies | these people have regaled you here today
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same. Spoken by Lord Foppington.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gallants we never yet produced a play
- Page No:
- pp.245-246
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's Aesop.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- First Line:
- Since tis the intent and business of the stage
- Page No:
- pp.246-247
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's Provok'd Wife.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- First Line:
- No epilogue I swear I know of none
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same...Spoken by Lady Brute and Belinda.
- Attribution:
- Written by another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You dread reformers of an impious age
- Page No:
- pp.248-250
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's False Friend.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- First Line:
- What say you sirs do ye think my lady'll scape
- Page No:
- pp.250-251
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye gods what crime had my poor father done
- Page No:
- p-252
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's Confederacy. Spoken by a shabby Poet.
- Attribution:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- First Line:
- I've heard wise men in politics lay down
- Page No:
- pp.252-253
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our author's wit and raillery tonight
- Page No:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir John Vanbrugh's Mistake.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Steele
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Steele
- First Line:
- I'm thinking now good husbands are so few
- Page No:
- pp.255-256
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Motteux.
- Attributed To:
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- First Line:
- How hard's the poet's task in these our days
- Page No:
- pp.256-257
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To George Granville Lord Lansdowne's Heroic Love.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Right Hon. Henry St. John, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Henry St John
- First Line:
- What will the galleries nay boxes say
- Page No:
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Written by Bevill Higgons, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- I who have been the poet's spark to day
- Page No:
- p.259
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To George Granville Lord Lansdowne's Once a Lover; and Always a Lover. Spoken by Angelica.
- Attribution:
- George Granville Lord Lansdowne
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- This radiant circle reverend Shakespeare view
- Page No:
- pp.259-261
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To George Granville Lord Lansdown's Jew of Venice.
- Attribution:
- Written by Bevill Higgons, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Each in his turn the poet and the priest
- Page No:
- pp.261-262
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Orpheus tuned his pipe with pleasing woe
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Lord Lansdowne's British Enchanters.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Right Hon. Joseph Addison's Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
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