Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
- DMI number:
- 2184
- First Line:
- Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
- Last Line:
- To fright away the vermin of the age
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Prologue
- Themes:
- Manners and Theatre
- Author:
- Edmund Ashton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 226: 'By Edmund Ashton'.
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 226: Noted but omitted.
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwell to this present year 1697 [ESTC R219192]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 214-5
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, by the E. of R---r.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of the Right Honourable the Earls of Rochester, and Roscommon... The Third Edition (1709) [N36008]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A new collection of poems relating to state affairs [N5917]
- Page No(s):
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- by the E. of R-------r.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- State Poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [N12193 part 2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- by the E. of R-------r.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T108846]
- Page No(s):
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- by the E. of R-------r.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 [T144920 part 2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- by the E. of R-------r.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- State poems continued from the time of O. Cromwell to the year 1697 [T144983]
- Page No(s):
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- by the E. of R-------r.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I] [T95468]
- Page No(s):
- pp.75-77
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset; the dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol I] [T94654]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol I] [T130333]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset [vol. I] [BL]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Prologue: Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol I] [T94653]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol I] [T146730]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against The Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol I] [T95240]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol I] [ECCO] [N25977]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol I] [T94657]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol I] [T95241]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, &c. [Vol I] [T152378 ]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol I] [T95242]
- Page No(s):
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol I] [N35509]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol I] [T119718]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol I] [ECCO] [N35511]
- Page No(s):
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester [T94656]
- Page No(s):
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Against the Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I] [T95392]
- Page No(s):
- pp.123-125
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- The Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I]. [T94652]
- Page No(s):
- pp.75-77
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 2] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.143-145
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue
- Attribution:
- By Major Aston.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- pp.211-213
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Young, Fluttering, Noisie Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- By Collonel Ashton
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- By Major Aston
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.309-310
- Poem Title:
- Prologue
- Attribution:
- By Major Aston.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
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