Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]

DMI number:

125

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 2.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1702

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T116469

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111944173

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 12

Full Title:

SYLVAE: | OR, THE | [i]SECOND PART[/i] | OF | POETICAL | MISCELLANIES. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]DRYDEN.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | The THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson,[/i] within [i]Grays-Inn[/i] | Gate, next [i]Grays-Inn[/i] Lane. 1702.

Epigraph:

[i]----Non deficit alter | Aureus; & simili frondescit virgametallo.[/i] Virg.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[36], 1-306, [4]

Comments:

Notes: "Vol 2 of Tonson's six-volume 'Miscellany Poems' (1684-1709); in part edited, and chiefly written, by Dryden. 1702 (3rd edn; the contents of this vol differ from earlier edns, 1685, 1692, 1693), 1716 (4th edn). <i>See</i> Case 172(2)(d)" (SUAREZ). Separate title-pages for Essay on Translated verse. Essay on Translated verse also has different running titles ('An Essay on' 'Translated Verse') to the rest of the Miscellany ('The SECOND PART of' 'MISCELLANY POEMS'). Contents: Some pieces in Latin (A3v-A4r, by Charles Dryden; A7v)

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface, signed 'John Dryden', (A2r-a4v) End matter: Table to the foregoing poems (Xr-X2v)

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Comments:

Related People

Editor:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Publish'd by Mr. Dryden'.

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Jacob Tonson'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

As when by labouring stars new kingdoms rise

Page No:

A4v-A6r

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Roscomon. On his Excellent Poem.

Attribution:

Knightly Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore

Page No:

A2r-A3r

Poem Title:

To The Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

John Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

While satire pleased and nothing else was writ

Page No:

A6r-A7r

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

J. Amherst.

Attributed To:

J. Amherst

First Line:

Happy that author whose correct essay

Page No:

pp.1-18

Poem Title:

An Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Thus equal deaths are dealt and equal chance

Page No:

pp.19-30

Poem Title:

The Entire Episode of Mezentius and Lausus, Translated out of the 10th Book of Virgil's Aeneids.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What has this bugbear death to frighten man

Page No:

pp.30-44

Poem Title:

Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius. Against the fear of Death.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus therefore he who feels the fiery dart

Page No:

pp.45-58

Poem Title:

Lucretius The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love; Beginning at this Line, Sic igitur, Veneris qui tellis accipit ictum, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Twelve Spartan virgins noble young and fair

Page No:

pp.58-62

Poem Title:

Theocrit. Idyllium the 18th. The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

With inauspicious love a wretched swain

Page No:

pp.63-67

Poem Title:

Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The shepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride

Page No:

pp.68-73

Poem Title:

Daphnis. From Theocritus, Idyll. 27.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

So may the auspicious queen of love

Page No:

pp.74-76

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 3. Lib. I. Inscrib'd to the Earl of Roscomon on his intended Voyage to Ireland.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Behold yon mountain's hoary height

Page No:

pp.77-79

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib. I. Ode 9.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Descended of an ancient line

Page No:

pp.79-84

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd in Pindarick Verse; And Inscrib'd to the Right Honouable Lawrence Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How happy in his low degree

Page No:

pp.84-89

Poem Title:

From Horace, Epod. 2d.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors

Page No:

pp.89-96

Poem Title:

Part of Virgil's 4th Georgic.

Attribution:

By Mr. Creech

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

The Fourteenth Ode of the second Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

Page No:

pp.98-107

Poem Title:

The First Idyllium of Theocritus Translated into English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Are you grown lazy or does some disease

Page No:

pp.108-111

Poem Title:

The Reapers. The Tenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Englished by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Scarce three whole days my lovely youth had passed

Page No:

pp.111-114

Poem Title:

[Greek] or the Twelfth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cupid the sliest rogue alive

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

[Greek] or the Nineteenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There on the extremest beach and farthest sand

Page No:

pp.117-123

Poem Title:

The Complaint of Ariadna. Out of Catullus.

Attribution:

By Mr William Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Proud Eunica when I advanced to kiss

Page No:

pp.123-126

Poem Title:

The Twentieth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

To Lesbia out of Catullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

To Lesbia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Horace Ode 7th, Book 4th.

Attribution:

By an unknown hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We must all live and we would all live well

Page No:

pp.130-132

Poem Title:

Horace. The 2d Book, Ode the 10th.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear friend for surely I may call him so

Page No:

p.132-141

Poem Title:

Horace. 18th Epistle, the 1st Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Freedom is a real treasure

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolsely

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

When wits from sighing turn to railing

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Answer'd.

Attribution:

by Mr. Wharton

Attributed To:

Mr. Wharton

First Line:

Why this talking still of dying

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Another Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I was at first a piece of fig tree wood

Page No:

pp.144-147

Poem Title:

Horace Saty. 2. Lib. 1.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

Arise great monarch see the joyful day

Page No:

pp.148-150

Poem Title:

An Ode. Sung before King Charles the II on New-Years-Day.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Allestry

Attributed To:

Jacob Allestry

First Line:

Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen

Page No:

pp.150-152

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy

Page No:

pp.152-161

Poem Title:

The Episode Of the Death of Camilla. Translated out of the Eleventh Book of Virgil's Aeneids.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

Old as I am for ladies love unfit

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

Cymon and Iphegenia From Boccace. ...Poeta loquitur.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

In that sweet isle where Venus keeps her court

Page No:

pp.164-189

Poem Title:

Cymon and Iphegenia From Boccace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What ail'st thou oh thou trembling thing

Page No:

pp.190-192

Poem Title:

To my Heart.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What should I ask my friend which best would be

Page No:

pp.193-195

Poem Title:

Cato's Answer to Labienus, when he advis'd him to consult the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon. Being a Paraphrastical Translation of part of the 9th Book of Lucan, beginning at -Quid quaeri, Labiene, Jubes, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wolsely

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

Sir | As once a twelve month to the priest

Page No:

pp.196-204

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Fleetwood Shepherd.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let equipage and dress despair

Page No:

pp.204-206

Poem Title:

Song of Basset.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

To that prodigious height of vice we're grown

Page No:

pp.206-211

Poem Title:

A Prologue to Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain

Page No:

pp.211-213

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Young, Fluttering, Noisie Disturbers of the Pit.

Attribution:

By Collonel Ashton

Attributed To:

Edmund Ashton

First Line:

Ye sacred nymphs of Lebethra be by

Page No:

pp.213-223

Poem Title:

The Nature of Women; A Translation of Part of the fourth Eclogue of Mantuan. A Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since love and verse as well as wine

Page No:

pp.223-226

Poem Title:

Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.

Attribution:

Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

To you who live in chill degree

Page No:

pp.227-230

Poem Title:

A Letter From Mr. Dryden to Sir George Etheridge.

Attribution:

From Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

From hunting whores and haunting play

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

Sir George Etheridge's Second Letter to the Lord Middleton.

Attribution:

Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

On the remains of an old blasted oak

Page No:

pp.233-237

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Oldham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.238-263

Poem Title:

Chevy-Chase, By the Order of the Bishop of London.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you be quite cured of love

Page No:

pp.264-267

Poem Title:

Remedy of Love.

Attribution:

By Mr. Evelyn

Attributed To:

John Evelyn

First Line:

Come poetry and with thee bring along

Page No:

pp.268-269

Poem Title:

An Ode ... For her Majesty, Queen to King Charles I.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Abraham Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Fair virtue should I follow thee

Page No:

pp.270-272

Poem Title:

On Virtue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Evelyn

Attributed To:

John Evelyn

First Line:

I love I dote I rave with pain

Page No:

pp.273-275

Poem Title:

The Complaint. A Song To a Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

By Mr. Thomas Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how

Page No:

pp.276-280

Poem Title:

Cynisca: Or, The Fourteenth Idyllium of Theocritus Imitated.

Attribution:

By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Now first with bolder sails I tempt the main

Page No:

pp.280-286

Poem Title:

Proteus: Being the fourth Eclogue of Sanazarius. Inscribed to Ferdinand of Arragon, Duke of Calabria, Son of Frederick King of Naples.

Attribution:

By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Ye happy swains whose hearts are free

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Sir G. Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

In Chloris all soft charms agree

Page No:

pp.288-289

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. H.

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

The gods are not more blessed than he

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

Sapho's Ode from Longinus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Lyce the gods have heard my prayer

Page No:

pp.291-293

Poem Title:

The Thirteenth Ode Of The Fourth Book of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

pp.293-295

Poem Title:

The Grove.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In those cold regions which no summers cheer

Page No:

pp.296-298

Poem Title:

Prologue to his Royal Highness, Upon his first Appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his Return from Scotland, 1682.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I'll tell you a story if it be true

Page No:

pp.298-302

Poem Title:

The Salisbury Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me gentle Strephon why

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue Between Phillis and Strephon.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

What horror's this that dwells upon the plain

Page No:

pp.305-306

Poem Title:

The Beginning of a Pastoral on the Death of his Late Majesty.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Ottoway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway