State Poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [N12193 part 2]

DMI number:

205

Aliases

Poems on affairs of state

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1709

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N12193

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112994693

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet.A4 e. 1388

Full Title:

State-Poems | CONTINUED | From the time of [i]O. Cromwel[/i], | to the YEAR 1697. | WRITTEN | By the greatest WITS of the Age, [i]viz[/i]. | 2 cols.] [col. 1][i]The Lord[/i] Rochester, | [i]The Lord[/i] D-----t, | [i]The Lord[/i] V--------n, | [i]The Hon.Mr.[/i] M---ue, | [i]Sir[/i] F. S-----d,[/col. 1] [col. 2][i]Mr[/i]. Milton, | [i]Mr[/i]. Prior, | [i]Mr.[/i] Stepney, | [i]Mr[/i]. Ayloffe, [i]&c[/i].[/col. 2] | WITH | Several Poems in Praise of [i]Oliver Cromwel[/i], | in [i]Latin[/i] and [i]English[/i], by | [2 cols.] [col. 1][i]Dr[/i]. South, | [i]Dr[/i]. Locke, | [i]Sir[/i] W. G--n,[/col. 1] [col. 2][i]Dr[/i]. Crew | [i]Mr[/i]. Busby, [i]&c[/i]. | Also some Miscellany Poems by the same, | never before Printed. | [rule] | Now carefully Examin'd with the Originals, and | Published without any Castration. | [rule] | Printed in the Year MDCCIX.

Genres:

Political miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[8] 1-264

Bibliographic details:

A 1716 Reissue of T144920. Follows Poems on Affairs of State vol. I (1716): pagination restarts but register is continuous. 'The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd' has a separate title page, p. 65.

Comments:

Contents: pp. 1-15 are part of 'Select Poems out of Musarum Oxoniensium 'ELAIOFOPI'A. Sive, Ob Foedera, Auspiciis Serenissimi Oliveri Reipubl. Angl. Scot. & Hibern. Domini Protectoris inter Rempubl. Britannicam & Ordines Foederatos Belgii foeliciter stabilita, Gentis togatae ad vada Isidis Celeusma metricum. Pp. 1-11, 241-242, 253-4 have Latin verse, translated. pp. 58-60 and p. 249-50 have Latin verse untranslated. Pp. 65-110 contain drama ('The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd, to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse').

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Short preface explaining genesis of the continuation and declaring it to be 'the best Secret History of our late Reigns' [2pp], followed by index [4pp].

Related Miscellanies

Title:

State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T144920 part 2]

Publication Date:

1709

ESTC No:

T144920

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Title:

State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T108846]

Publication Date:

1702

ESTC No:

T108846

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

A collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R23725]

Publication Date:

1689

ESTC No:

R23725

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

A new collection of poems relating to state affairs [N5917]

Publication Date:

1705

ESTC No:

N5917

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [N12193 part 1]

Publication Date:

1716

ESTC No:

N12193

Volume:

1 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

Poems on affairs of state [Vol. II] [T144917]

Publication Date:

1716

ESTC No:

T144917

Volume:

2 of 4

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwell to the year 1697 [T144983]

Publication Date:

1703

ESTC No:

T144983

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R10478]

Publication Date:

1689

ESTC No:

R10478

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The third part of the collection of poems on affairs of state [R22081]

Publication Date:

1689

ESTC No:

R22081

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The soldier now forgets the sanguine seas

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Nath. Crew. e Coll. Linc. Com

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Crew

First Line:

When with the rolling tides of fate

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Matth. Mew, C.C.C. Schol.

Attributed To:

Matthew Mew

First Line:

When civil war through all the chaos reigned

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Guil. Godolphin, ex AEde Christi

Attributed To:

Sir William Godolphin

First Line:

A fatal war two angry sisters waged

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Rob. South, ex Aede Christi

Attributed To:

Robert South

First Line:

A peaceful sway the great Augustus bore

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

J. Locke, ex AEde Christi

Attributed To:

John Locke

First Line:

Peace absent long two states to union brings

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

J. Busby, A. M. ex Aede Christi.

Attributed To:

J. Busby

First Line:

Lion of war whose roar the Dutch dismayed

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

To the Protector.

Attribution:

J. Busby, A. M. ex AEde Christi

Attributed To:

J. Busby

First Line:

Now with a better face affairs appear

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

J. Vaughan, A. M. e Coll. Jesu.

Attributed To:

John Vaughan

First Line:

If Greece with so much mirth did entertain

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

J. Locke, Student of Ch. Ch.

Attributed To:

John Locke

First Line:

As when two streams divided gently glide

Page No:

pp.13-15

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

W. Godolphin, St. Ch. Ch.

Attributed To:

Sir William Godolphin

First Line:

To make myself for this employment fit

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

A young Gentleman desirous to be a Minister of State, thus pretends to qualify himself.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue's triumphant shrine who dost engage

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

To King Charles the Second, on his Return.

Attribution:

Rochester Wadh. Coll.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

When James our great monarch so wise and discreet

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Upon the King's Voyage to Chatham, to make Bulwarks against the Dutch, and the Queen's Miscarriage thereupon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Room for the Bedlam c--ns hell and fury

Page No:

pp.19-23

Poem Title:

A Charge to the Grand Inquest of England, 1674.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This rumour entering angry Titan's ears

Page No:

pp.23-30

Poem Title:

The Giants Wars, 1682. Some Passages preceding the Giants War, Translated out of a Greek Fragment.

Attribution:

By Dr. B------

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As citizens that to their conquerors yield

Page No:

pp.30-32

Poem Title:

On the Statue in Stocks-Market.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Must I with patience ever silent sit

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Satyr.

Attribution:

By the Lord R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not Rome in all her splendor could compare

Page No:

pp.33-35

Poem Title:

A Satyr.

Attribution:

By the same Hand.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Of all the wonders since the world began

Page No:

pp.35-40

Poem Title:

A Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As in the days of yore were odds

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

The Royal Buss.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Windsor.

Attribution:

By the Lord R--------r

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now painter try if thy skilled hand can draw

Page No:

pp.45-48

Poem Title:

The Second Advice to a Painter.

Attribution:

By the Author of the First.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is this the heavenly crown are these the joys

Page No:

pp.48-51

Poem Title:

Staffordd's [sic] Ghost. Feb. 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who can on this picture look

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Picture. September, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Near Hampton Court there lies a common

Page No:

pp.52-56

Poem Title:

Hounslow-Heath, 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For this additional declaration

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

The Dissenters Thanksgiving for the Late Declaration, 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Betwixt Father Patrick and his highness of late

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

The Dispute.

Attribution:

By the E. of R--------.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who'd be the man lewd libels to indite

Page No:

pp.60-64

Poem Title:

Satyr Unmuzzled.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not all the threats or favours of a crown

Page No:

pp.111-115

Poem Title:

The Man of Honour ... Occasion'd by a Postscript of Pen's Letter.

Attribution:

Written by the Honourable Mr. Montague.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

As the late character of god-like men

Page No:

pp.115-119

Poem Title:

The Man of no Honour.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas at an hour when busy nature lay

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I did intend in rhymes heroic

Page No:

pp.122-126

Poem Title:

The Converts.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Humbly sheweth | That we your majesty's poor slaves

Page No:

pp.126-128

Poem Title:

The humble Address of your Majesty's Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Protestant Dissenting Rhimers, with the rest of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferior Versifiers and Sonnetteers, of Your Majesty's Antient Corporation of Parnassus.

Attribution:

The humble Address of your Majesty's Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Protestant Dissenting Rhimers, with the rest of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferior Versifiers and Sonnetteers, of Your Majesty's Antient Corporation of Parnassus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Appear thou mighty bard to open view

Page No:

pp.128-132

Poem Title:

The Laureat.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where is there faith and justice to be found

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

On the Bishops Confinement.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The year of wonder now is come

Page No:

pp.133-135

Poem Title:

Advice to the Prince of Orange, and the Packet-Boat return'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail reverend tripos guardian of the law

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

A Stanza lately put upon Tyburn.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not hell it self nor gloomy fate can save

Page No:

pp.135-137

Poem Title:

Harry Care's last Will and Testament.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

True Englishmen drink a good health to the mitre

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

A New Catch in Praise of the Reverend Bishops.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In sable weeds I saw a matron clad

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Protestantism Reviv'd: or the Persecuted Church Triumphing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two Toms and Nat

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

The Council. To the Tune of Jamaica.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The critics that pretend to sense

Page No:

pp.141-143

Poem Title:

The Audience.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

Page No:

pp.143-146

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wearied with business and with cares oppressed

Page No:

pp.146-149

Poem Title:

The Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappier age who ever saw

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

Over the Lord Dover's Door, 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm come my future fate to seek

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

To the Speaking Head.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Cecil the wise

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

Over the Lord Salisbury's Door, 1686.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis a strange thing to think on

Page No:

p.151

Poem Title:

Essay written over his Door, upon an Institution and Induction.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As down the torrent of an angry flood

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

The Fable of the Pot and Kettle, as it was told by Colonel Titus the Night before he Kiss'd the Kings Hand.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A true dissenter here does lie indeed

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Harry Care.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Learn hence ye whigs and act no more like fools

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

The Moral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our prologue wit grows flat the nap's worn off

Page No:

pp.154-156

Poem Title:

A Lenten Prologue refus'd by the Players, 1682.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When God almighty had his palace framed

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

On Easter-day 87. this was found fixt on the King's Chappel-Door.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The poets tell us idle tales to please us

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Upon K. James's Pistolling a Mastiff Dog at Banbury, in his last Progress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Had the late famed Lord Rochester survived

Page No:

pp.159-162

Poem Title:

The Metamorphosis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas still low ebb of night when not a star

Page No:

pp.162-171

Poem Title:

Caesar's Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Believe me Will that those who have least sense

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

The Fourth Satyr of Boileau to W. K. 1687.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our glorious realm over all the earth renowned

Page No:

pp.174-178

Poem Title:

A Congratulatory Poem on his Highness the Prince of Orange's coming into England.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Shadwell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Madam | Immured with rocks of ice no wretches left

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

A Congratulatory Poem to the most Illustrious Queen Mary, upon her Arrival in England.

Attribution:

By Thomas Shadwel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Stand forth thou grand impostor of our time

Page No:

pp.180-183

Poem Title:

The Observator, | Or the History of Hodge, as reported by some; | From his siding with Noll, to's scribling for Rome.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You catholic statesmen and churchmen rejoice

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

The Miracle; How the Dutchess of Modena (being in Heaven) pray'd the B. Virgin that the Queen might have a Son, and how our Lady sent the Angel Gabriel with her Smock; upon which the Queen was with Child. To the tune of O Youth, thou hadst better been starv'd at Nurse. In Bartholomew Fair.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why am I daily thus perplexed

Page No:

pp.186-189

Poem Title:

Dialogue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes fickle Cambridge Perkins found this true

Page No:

p.189-191

Poem Title:

On the University of Cambridge's burning the D. of Monmouth's Picture, 1685. who was formerly their Chancellor. ----- In Answer to this Question, In turba semper sequitur fortunatam & odit damnatos.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

He that first said it knew the worth of wit

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

Nulla manere diu neque vivere carmina possunt, quae scribuntur aque notoribus.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ayloffe, T. C. C.

Attributed To:

John Ayloffe

First Line:

When crowding folks with strange ill faces

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

To Mr. Fleetwood Shepherd.

Attribution:

By Mr. P---r

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

J R | Whereas by misrepresentation

Page No:

pp.195-199

Poem Title:

The true and genuine Explanation, | Of one King James's Declaration.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She's gone the beauty of our isle is fled

Page No:

pp.199-201

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Queen.

Attribution:

By my Lord Cutts.

Attributed To:

John Cutts

First Line:

Thou best of poets and thou best of friends

Page No:

pp.202-212

Poem Title:

Tunbridgialia: Or the Pleasures of Tunbridge. In a Letter to a Friend.

Attribution:

By Mr. Peter Causton, Merchant

Attributed To:

Peter Causton

First Line:

Worthy that man to scape mortality

Page No:

pp.212-214

Poem Title:

An Essay on Writing, and the Art and Mystery of Printing. A Translation out of the Anthology.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

Prologue

Attribution:

by the E. of R-------r.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Maids need no more their silver piss-pots scour

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

On Melting down the Plate: Or, the Piss-pot's Farewel, 1697.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed he that with a mighty hand

Page No:

pp.216-218

Poem Title:

On Content.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head

Page No:

pp.218-223

Poem Title:

Tunbridge-Wells.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Rochester, June 30. 1675.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Can learning's orb when such a star expires

Page No:

pp.223-225

Poem Title:

In Memory of Joseph Washington, Esq; late of the Middle Temple, an Elegy.

Attribution:

Written by N. Tate, Servant to Their Majesties.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

When souls unite in generous friendship joined

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

Friendship.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As leaves which from the trees blown down

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celia now my heart has broke

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

The Deliverance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O solitude my sweetest choice

Page No:

pp.229-236

Poem Title:

Of Solitude.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

They talk of raptures flames and darts

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Song ex Tempore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell thou Stygean Juice which does bewitch

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

A Satyr against Brandy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As reading of romances did inspire

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

A Prologue spoken by Mr. Mounfort, after he came from the the Army, and acted on the Stage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How cruel was Alonzo's fate

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

On the Infanta of Portugal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let ancients boast no more

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

Pindarick.

Attribution:

By the Lord R-------r.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

God's and thy right made thee our hope before

Page No:

pp.242-243

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

R. South, A.M. ex Aede Christi (Latin verse is signed 'R. South', but not the ensuing translation.)

Attributed To:

Robert South

First Line:

In dogrel rhymes we seldom use

Page No:

p.243-246

Poem Title:

On the late Invention of the New Lights.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What fools are they who use to cry

Page No:

pp.246-248

Poem Title:

On the late Invention of the Penny-Post, by Mr. Dockwra.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Seraphic lord whom heaven for wonder meant

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

On the Penitent Death of the Lord Roch----r.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the last of all knights and the worst of all knaves

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Prophecy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Tewkesbury mustard shall travel abroad

Page No:

p.251

Poem Title:

A Prophecy

Attribution:

by Sir F. S.

Attributed To:

Sir Fleetwood Sheppard

First Line:

As on his deathbed grasping Strephon lay

Page No:

p.253

Poem Title:

On the Lord Rochester's Death.

Attribution:

By Mr. Flatman

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

Were I to choose what sort of corpse I'd wear

Page No:

pp.254-259

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Lord Rochester's Satyr on Man.

Attribution:

By Dr. P------.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this place

Page No:

pp.259-260

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on the D. of G------

Attribution:

By F. S----d.

Attributed To:

Sir Fleetwood Sheppard

First Line:

I will sing in the praise if you'll lend but an ear

Page No:

pp.260-263

Poem Title:

The Inniskilling Regiment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A mighty great fleet the like was never seen

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

A Ballad on the Fleet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed