A collection and selection of english prologues and epilogues [vol 1] [T145232] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1420
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 4
- ESTC number:
- T145232
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113372687
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | COMMENCING WITH | [i]SHAKESPEARE[/i], | AND CONCLUDING WITH | [i]GARRICK.[/i] | IN FOUR VOLUMES. | VOLUME I. | [epigraph] | [short rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR | FIELDING AND WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | MDCCLXXIX.
- Epigraph:
- 'Tis much desir'd, you judges of the town, | Would pass a vote to put all Prologues down; | For who can shew me, since they first were writ, | They e'er converted one hard-hearted wit? | PROL. TO THE RIVAL LADIES.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece plus additional illustration facing title page. Half title: A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | [rule] | PROLOGUES.
- Comments:
- Contents: prose p. 25, 30-31, 50-52.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface pp. [i]-viii. Back matter: Index [6pp.]; Books printed for Fielding and Walker [2pp.]
- Title:
- A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 3] [T145232] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- ESTC No:
- T145232
- Volume:
- 3 of 4
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 4] [T145232] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- ESTC No:
- T145232
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Fielding
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Walker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Open your ears for which of you will stop
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Induction to the Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O for a muse of fire that would ascend
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to King Henry The Fifth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Now all the youth of England are on fire
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Chorus To The Second Act of King Henry The Fifth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Now entertain conjecture of a time
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- Chorus To The Fourth Act of King Henry the Fifth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- Chorus To The Fifth Act of King Henry The Fifth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I come no more to make you laugh things now
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To King Henry The Eighth.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- In Troy there lies the scene from isles of Greece
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Troilus and Cressida.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Two households both alike in dignity
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Romeo And Juliet.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- So free this work is gentlemen from offence
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Custom of The Country.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- But that it would take from our modesty
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Elder Brother.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- To tell ye gentlemen we have a play
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Spanish Curate.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- To please all is impossible and despair
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Mad Lover.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- We need not noble gentlemen to invite
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Loyal Subject.
- Attribution:
- Written by Fletcher alone, and acted after his death.
- Attributed To:
- John Fletcher
- First Line:
- Pleasure attend ye and about ye sit
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Rule A Wife And Have A Wife.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- New titles warrant not a play for new
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The False One.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- To promise much before a play begin
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Little French Lawyer.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Aptness for mirth to all this instant night
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to The Chances.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- You're welcome gentlemen and would our feast
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To A Wife For A Month.
- Attribution:
- Fletcher, alone.
- Attributed To:
- John Fletcher
- First Line:
- To this place gentlemen full many a day
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Love's Pilgrimage.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Ladies to you in whose defence and right
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Woman's Prize.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Would some man would instruct me what to say
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Humourous Lieutenant.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Wit is become an antick and puts on
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Noble Gentleman.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Plays have their fates not as in their true sense
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Fair Maid Of The Inn.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- It's grown in fashion lately in these days
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Nice Valour: or, the Passionate Mad-man.
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- After twice putting forth to sea his fame
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Guardian.
- Attribution:
- Massinger.
- Attributed To:
- Philip Massinger
- First Line:
- To such and some there are no question here
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Very Woman. Upon Its Revival.
- Attribution:
- Massinger.
- Attributed To:
- Philip Massinger
- First Line:
- Though need make many poets and some such
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Every Man In His Humour.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Now luck yet send us and a little wit
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Volpone.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Truth says of old the art of making plays
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- The ends of all who for the scene do write
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- A Second Prologue To Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Fortune that favours fools these two short hours
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Alchemist.
- Attribution:
- Jonson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- The devil is an ass that is today
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Devil's An Ass.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Your majesty is welcome to a fair
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Bartholomew Fair. To The King's Majesty.
- Attribution:
- Jonson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- For your own sakes not his he bad me say
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Staple of News. For The Stage.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- A work not smelling of the lamp tonight
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- A Second Prologue To The Staple of News. For The Court.
- Attribution:
- Jonson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- No state affairs nor any politic club
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To A Tale of A Tub.
- Attribution:
- Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- He that hath feasted you these forty years
- Page No:
- pp.46-48
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Sad Shepherd.
- Attribution:
- Jonson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- A strange play you are like to have for know
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the English Traveller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I come but as a harbinger being sent
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To A Woman Kill'd With Kindness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our muse descries no lover's passion
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Lingua.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Judicious friends if what shall here be seen
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Heir.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wit in a prologue poets justly may
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Goblins.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To this fair company I am to say
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Shepherd's Holiday.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If we could hit on it gallants there are due
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Adventures Of Five Hours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It is not strange to hear a poet say
- Page No:
- pp.60-62
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Wild Gallant.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis much desired you judges of the town
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Rival Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Indian Queen.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Almighty critics whom our indians here
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Indian Emperor.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He who writ this not without pains and thought
- Page No:
- pp.66-68
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Maiden Queen.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fools which each man meets in his dish each day
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Martin Mar-all.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a tree's cut down the secret root
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Tempest. Altered by Dryden.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Self love though never rightly understood
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Tyrannick Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Lord how reformed and quiet are we grown
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Marriage A-La-Mode.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Prologues like bells to churches toll you in
- Page No:
- pp.74-76
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Assignation.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Amboyna.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Our author by experience finds it true
- Page No:
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Aureng-Zebe.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What flocks of critics hover here today
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To All For Love: Or, The World Well Lost.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- True wit has seen its best days long ago
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Limberham.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When Athens all the Grecian state did guide
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Oedipus.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- See my loved britons see your Shakespeare rise
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Troilus and Cressida, As Altered By Dryden, And Spoken By Mr. Betterton, Representing The Ghost of Shakespeare Crowned With Bays.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now luck for us and a kind hearty pit
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Spanish Fryar.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Our play's a parallel the holy league
- Page No:
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Duke of Guise.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Full twenty years and more our labouring stage
- Page No:
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Albion And Albanius. An Opera.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The judge removed though he's no more my lord
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Don Sebastian. Spoken By A Woman.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The labouring bee when his sharp sting is gone
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Amphitryon. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I think or hope at least the coast is clear
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Cleomenes; Or, The Spartan Hero. Spoken by Mr. Mountfort.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To King Arthur. An Opera.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when some treasurer lays down the stick
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Love Triumphant.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So shipwrecked passengers escape to land
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, Spoken The First Day Of The King's House Acting After The Fire Of London.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A plain built house after so long a stay
- Page No:
- pp.104-106
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, Spoken At The Opening Of The New House, March 26, 1674.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poets your subjects have their parts assigned
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Were you but half so wise as you are severe
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Circe: A Tragic Opera, By Dr. Davenant, 1675.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heaven save ye gallants and this hopeful age
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Widow Ranter; By Mrs. Behn, 1690.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The unhappy man who once has trailed a pen
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Caesar Borgia. By Mr. N. Lee, 1680.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thespis the first professor of our art
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sophonisba. Written by Nat. Lee, Acted At Oxford, 1680.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- If yet there be a few that take delight
- Page No:
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Loyal General. By Mr. Tate, 1680.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1681.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In those cold regions which no summers cheer
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To His Royal Highness, Upon His First Appearance At The Duke's Theatre After His Return From Scotland, 1682.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When first the ark was landed on the shore
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Earl Of Essex. By Mr. J. Banks, 1682. Spoken To The King And Queen At Their Coming To The House.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poets like lawful monarchs ruled the stage
- Page No:
- pp.120-123
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Loyal Brother: Or The Persian Prince. By Mr. Southern, 1682.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What Greece when learning flourished only knew
- Page No:
- pp.123-125
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford. Spoken By Mr. Hart, At The Acting Of The Silent Woman.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Discord and plots which have undone our age
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How comes it gentlemen that nowadays
- Page No:
- pp.127-129
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Disappointment: Or, The Mother In Fashion. By Mr. Southerne, 1684. Spoken By Mr. Betterton.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Since faction ebbs and rogues grow out of fashion
- Page No:
- pp.130-132
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The King And Queen, Upon The Union Of The Two Companies, In 1686.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Though actors cannot much of learning boast
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University Of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With sickly actors and an old house too
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Prologue On The Revival Of Arviragus And Philicia: By Lodowick Carlell Esq. 1690. Spoken By Mr. Hart.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What Nostradame with all his art can guess
- Page No:
- pp.135-137
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Prophetess, By Beaumont and Fletcher. Spoken By Mr. Betterton, 1690.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Save ye sirs save ye I am in a hopeful way
- Page No:
- pp.137-139
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Mistakes, A Play, Written By Joseph Harris, Comedian, 1690.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To say this comedy pleased long ago
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Albumazar.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How wretched is the fate of those who write
- Page No:
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Pilgrim, By Beaumont And Fletcher. Revived For Dryden's Benefit, Anno 1700
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ladies take it as a secret in your ear
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Woman Hater, A Reviv'd Play of Mr. Fletcher's.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- A broiling lamb on Pan's chief altar lies
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, Sung At The Representation Of The Faithful Shepherdess.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- My lord you in your early youth did fit
- Page No:
- p.147
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Five Hours Adventure. For The Temple. Addressed To The Lord Chancellor.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Methinks as if assured of some disgrace
- Page No:
- pp.148-149
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, The First Days Entertainment At Rutland-House, By Declamations And Music: After The Manner Of The Ancients.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Since you affect things new what I'm to say
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Play-House To Be Let.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Were you but half so humble to confess
- Page No:
- pp.151-153
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Unfortunate Lovers. Spoken At Black-Friars.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Bless me you kinder stars how are we thronged
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Wits. Spoken At Black-Fryars.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Wit which is all the gold a poet has
- Page No:
- pp.154-156
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Same. Spoken At The Duke's Theatre.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- But that the tyrant custom bears such sway
- Page No:
- pp.156-157
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Love and Honour.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- No country lady ever yet did ask
- Page No:
- pp.157-158
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Man's The Master.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Tis worth my smiles to think what enforced ways
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Platonic Lovers.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- A noble company for we can spy
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To News From Plymouth.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Amaze us not with that majestic frown
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- Prologue For The Lady Actors, Spoken Before K. Charles II.
- Attribution:
- Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Scarce should we have the boldness to pretend
- Page No:
- pp.162-163
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Maid's Tragedy Altered.
- Attribution:
- Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Who says the times to learning disallow
- Page No:
- pp.163-164
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Guardian. Spoken Before The Prince, Afterwards Charles II.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- As when the Midland sea is nowhere clear
- Page No:
- pp.165-166
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Cutter Of Coleman-Street.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Stay gentlemen what I have said was all
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- Contiunation To The Same. Added At Court.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Who could expect such crowding here today
- Page No:
- pp.167-168
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Love In A Tub.
- Attribution:
- Sir George Etheridge.
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- Like dancers on the ropes poor poets fare
- Page No:
- pp.168-169
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Man Of Mode.
- Attribution:
- Sir George Etheridge.
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- Wit long oppressed and filled at last with rage
- Page No:
- pp.170-171
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Theodosius: Or, The Force of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Trust was the glory of the foremost age
- Page No:
- pp.172-173
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Princess of Cleve.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Long has the tribe of poets on the stage
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Lucius Junius Brutus.
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Not careful leaders when the trumpets call
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Mithridates, King of Pontus.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- What think ye meant wise providence when first
- Page No:
- pp.176-178
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Constantine The Great. Spoken By Mr. Goodman.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Good plays and perfect sense as scarce are grow
- Page No:
- pp.178-179
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Nero. Spoken By Mr. Haines.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- He whose attempt is shown this night to please
- Page No:
- pp.179-181
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Gloriana: Or, The Court of Augustus Caesar. Spoken By Mrs. Roche.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- This day we show you the most bloody rage
- Page No:
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Massacre Of Paris. Spoken By Mr. Mountfort.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Wits like physicians never can agree
- Page No:
- pp.182-184
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The First Part Of The Rover: Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers.
- Attribution:
- Written By A Person Of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain we labour to reform the stage
- Page No:
- pp.184-185
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Second Part Of The Rover.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- I am the ghost of him who was a true son
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Round-Heads; Or, The Good Old Cause. Spoken By The Ghost Of Hewson, Ascending From Hell, Dress'd As A Cobler.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Gallants you have so long been absent hence
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Abdelazer; Or, The Moor's Revenge.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Beauty like wit can only charm when new
- Page No:
- pp.189-190
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Young King.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- How vain have proved the labours of the stage
- Page No:
- pp.191-193
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The City Heiress. Spoken By Mrs. Barrey.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- The devil take this cursed plotting age
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Feign'd Courtezans. Spoken By Mrs. Currer.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- As country squire who yet had never known
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Town-Fop.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Know all ye whigs and tories of the pit
- Page No:
- pp.196-179[i.e.197]
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The False Count. Spoken By Mr. Smith.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Since with old plays you have so long been cloyed
- Page No:
- pp.198-199
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Lucky Chance.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Gallants our poets have of late so used ye
- Page No:
- pp.199-201
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Forced Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- We write not now as the ancient poets writ
- Page No:
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Patient Fancy.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Long and at vast expense the industrious stage
- Page No:
- pp.203-205
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Emperor Of The Moon. Spoken By Mr. Jevern.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Well you expect a prologue to the play
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Amorous Prince.
- Attribution:
- Mrs. Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- As rivals of each other jealous prove
- Page No:
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Younger Brother. Acted After Mrs. Behn's Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How popular are poets nowadays
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Sullen Lovers. Spoken By Ninny, A Character In The Play.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Since you are still resolved to be severe
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Humourists.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One of the poets as they safely may
- Page No:
- pp.212-213
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Royal Shepherdess.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You came with such an eager appetite
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Virtuouso.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As a young wanton when she first begins
- Page No:
- pp.214-216
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Psyche.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our author sent me hither for a scout
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Libertine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poets and thieves can scarce be rooted out
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Epsom-Wells.
- Attribution:
- Written By Sir. C. Sedley.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Poets and soldiers used to various chance
- Page No:
- pp.219-220
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Same. Addressed To The King And Queen. Spoken At Whitehall.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Since the bare gleanings of the stage are grown
- Page No:
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Timon Of Athens.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Our poet never doubts the good success
- Page No:
- pp.222-223
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Miser. The Author's Name Not Being Then Known.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Our poet once resolved to quit the stage
- Page No:
- pp.223-224
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Lancashire Witches.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Lord how the poets in these times will pine
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Woman-Captain.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- How have we in the space of one poor age
- Page No:
- pp.226-228
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Squire of Alsatia.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- To what hard laws you comic writers bind
- Page No:
- pp.228-230
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Bury-Fair.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Some of our author's special friends will say
- Page No:
- pp.230-231
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Amorous Bigot: With The Second Part of Teague O'Divelly.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Scourers me thinks I hear some ladies say
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Scowerers.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Our poet taught by you sirs to despise
- Page No:
- pp.233-235
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Volunteers. Written By Mr. Shadwell, And Designed To Be Spoken, But Was Lost When The Play Was Acted.
- Attribution:
- Shadwell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Shadwell
- First Line:
- Since death's a buccaneer and the world will rob
- Page No:
- pp.235-236
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Same. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I the plain dealer am to act today
- Page No:
- pp.237-238
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Plain-Dealer. Spoken By The Plain-Dealer.
- Attribution:
- Wycherley.
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Poets like cudgeled bullies never do
- Page No:
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Country-Wife.
- Attribution:
- Wycherley.
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Our author like us finding twould scarce do
- Page No:
- pp.240-241
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Gentleman Dancing-Master. Addressed To The City, Newly After The Removal Of The Duke's Company From Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, To Their New Theatre, Near Salisbury-Court.
- Attribution:
- Wycherley.
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Custom which bids the thief from cart harangue
- Page No:
- pp.241-242
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Love In A Wood.
- Attribution:
- Wycherley.
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- Never did rhymer greater hazard run
- Page No:
- pp.243-244
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Alcibiades.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- When first our author took this play in hand
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Don Carlos, Prince of Spain.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Gallants our author met me here today
- Page No:
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Titus And Berenice.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- How hard a task hath that poor drudge of stage
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Friendship In Fashion.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Forsaken dames with less concern reflect
- Page No:
- pp.248-249
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Soldier's Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Though plays and prologues never did more abound
- Page No:
- pp.250-251
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Atheist. Or, The Second Part of The Soldier's Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- In these distracted times when each man dreads
- Page No:
- pp.251[i.e. 252]-253
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Venice Preserved.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- To you great judges in this writing age
- Page No:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Orphan.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The ladies have a lonely summer passed
- Page No:
- pp.255-256
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Sir Antony Love. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- Gallants you're welcome to our homely cheer
- Page No:
- pp.257-158[i.e. 258]
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Wives Excuse. Spoken By Mr. Betterton.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- They who must write for writing's a disease
- Page No:
- pp.158[i.e.258]-259
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Maid's Last Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- When once a poet settles an ill name
- Page No:
- p.260
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Fatal Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- As when in hostile times two neighbouring states
- Page No:
- pp.261-262
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Oroonoko.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- Our bard resolved to quit this wicked town
- Page No:
- pp.262-264
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Fate of Capua.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- When realms are ravaged with invasive foes
- Page No:
- pp.264-265
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Spartan Dame.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- From the dull beaten road resolved to stray
- Page No:
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Money The Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Southerne.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
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