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

DMI number:
191
Aliases
Poems on affairs of state
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
Publication Date:
1702
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T108846
EEBO/ECCO link:
CB132861388
Shelfmark:
BOD Harding C 48
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]. | WITH | Several POEMS in Praise of [i]Oliver Cromwel[/i], | in [i]Latin[/i] and [i]English[/i], by | [2 cols.] [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 Examined with the Originals, and | Published without any Castration. | [rule] | Printed in the Year MDCCII.
Genres:
Political miscellany
Format:
Octavo
Pagination:
[8] 1-264
Bibliographic details:
The Hind and the Panther Transversed has separate title page p. 65. Gatherings I-O and S are set in a different type.
Comments:
Contents: pp.1-11 contain Latin poetry with English translations. The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd, pp. 65-110. Latin verse also on pp. 58-60, 241-2 249-50, 253-4.
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Short preface explaining genesis of the continuation and declaring it to be 'the best Secret History of our late Reigns' (A2-v), followed by index (A3-A4v). End matter: Advertisement, bottom p. 264.
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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 qualifie 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 preceeding 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 at 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-------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:
Stafford's 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 Thansgiving [sic] for the Late Declaration 1685.
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. ... Occasioned 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 Rhymers, with the rest of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferiour Versifiers and Sonnetteers, of Your Majesty's Ancient Corporation of Parnassus.
Attribution:
The humble Address of your Majesty's Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Protestant Dissenting Rhymers, with the rest of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferiour Versifiers and Sonnetteers, of Your Majesty's Ancient 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 returned.
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 Salsbury'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 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. J. 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 his coming into England.
Attribution:
Written by Mr. Tho. 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 Shadwell.
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 Nill, and 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) prayed 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:
pp.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 fortunam & 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 nequae vivere carminant possum, 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:
Tunbrigialia: 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 Farewell, 1697.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Blest 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-Well's.
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 Stygaean 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 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:
pp.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 Peny-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 Iniskilling 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