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

DMI number:

364

Aliases

Poems on affairs of state

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1703

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T144983

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115238857

Shelfmark:

Worcester College Library, Oxford.

Full Title:

State-Poems; | CONTINUED | From the time of [i]O. Cromwell[/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][/col. 2] | 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 MDCCIII.

Place of Publication:

[London]

Genres:

Political miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[8] ??

Bibliographic details:

p.100 misnumbered 110. Follows Poems on Affairs of State 1703, but unlike T144920 the register is not continuous - the prelimanaries are printed on a half sheet (in T144920 they make up the second half of sig. R).

Comments:

Contents: pp. 1-11 and pp. 241-242 have Latin verse, translated. pp. 58-60 and pp. 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', followed by index.

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Title:

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Publication Date:

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Volume:

1 of 1

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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 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 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-------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:

p.35

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 Thanksgiving 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. ...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:

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 an Institution, and Induction.

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 Congratulary Poem on his Highness the Prince of Orange his 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 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 hiding with Noll, 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 out 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 Bartholemew 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 Chancellour. --- In Answer to this Question, In turba semper sequiter fotunam & 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. Aloffe, 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 Jame'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 Mistery 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:

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, and 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