Since first by heaven's decree the world began
- DMI number:
- 6935
- First Line:
- Since first by heaven's decree the world began
- Last Line:
- Of mounted fops that are - the devil's jest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Satire and Couplet
- Themes:
- Manners and Money / wealth
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- From 'For we shall find that when the world began' to 'But that which made him noble made him good' T145151 (pp. 310-311); from 'You still are subject to the power of chance' to 'For fortune can depress and can advance' T145151 (p. 311); 'Even mighty monarchs oft are meanly born / And kings by birth to lowest ranks return' T145151 (p. 312): extract with alterations from Dryden's Sigismonda and Guiscardo ('While Norman Tancred in Salerno reigned'); Calif. VII (2000): 231 [first line, adapted; second line not by D.]
- Author:
- Richard Flecknoe
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'See you yond thing, who looks as he would cry' to 'Their heights but only make them shew less great' T145151 (p. 307): extract from Flecknoe'sOn The Foyl of Nobility ('SEe you yond Thing, who looks as he would cry') in Flecknoe, Euterpe revived, or, Epigrams made at several times in the years 1672, 1673, & 1674 on persons of the greatest honour and quality most of them now living : in III books (1675) - EEBO.
- Author:
- Robert Gould
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'This mounted cit not only truth denies' to 'For what's a tradesman but a licensed thief?' (p. 306); from 'The vilest fop, whom nature did create' to 'Not only loved, but which is worse, believed' (p. 306); from 'Why should a wit against Apollo's rules' to 'Inspired by heaven, be at a coxcomb's call' (p. 306); from 'Who does not see pride in our nature lies' to 'We may conclude to be as bare of sense' (pp. 306-307); from 'Tis certain, when w'are born we must be fed' to 'Ah! no their bu decries our shame' (pp. 312-313); from 'Would not that noble coxcomb raise our mirth' to 'To bilk the yearly hireling with the rest' (pp. 313-314); from 'Twas nature's crime, who sometimes is in haste' to 'Those indefatigable slaves of gain' (p. 314); from 'Who would not be the boor man named before' to And can lie basking on his banks of treasure' (pp. 314-315); from 'Who'd think, at ten a clock is should be said' to 'No other nectar she'll allow divine' (p. 315); from 'The harlot's pleasure too may turn to pain' to 'Till poxed all o'er, embracing one another' (p. 315); from 'Vain sex! at once both foolish and unjust' to 'And truth, we scarce know which is most her own' (p. 316). Extracts w. variants from 'The Corruption of the Times by Money. A Satyr'. Gould (1709) II: 266-297. Query: attribution?
- Author:
- Thomas Brown
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'Here shews keen want, and there superfluous store'; from 'The rich man and the poor shall be thy theme' to 'Or can new treasures purchase a new breath' T145151 (p. 304); from 'Does heaven extend its love and mercy more' to 'He'll make as vile a skeleton as I' T145151 (p. 305). Extracts with variants from 'The Mourning Poet: Or, The unknown Comforts of Imprisonment'. Brown (1715) IV: 50-55.
- Author:
- Thomas D'Urfey
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'Why should stiff V---t, that though the gazine rout' to 'Though V---t scour with coach and six abroad' T145151 (pp. 308-309). Extract w. variants from 'The Progress of Honesty' (1681, ESTC R3727).
- Title:
- Athenianism: or the new projects of Mr. John Dunton [T145151]
- Page No(s):
- pp.304-316
- Poem Title:
- Project XII. The Beggar mounted; or set a Fellow [of a mean Birth, or Trade] on Horseback he'll ride to the Devil---Being a Satyr on some Mushrome Gentlemen and Ladies (of Dunton's Acquaintaince) who being advanc'd from nothing to a Coach and Six, scarce know themselves, and despite their Friends.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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