The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]

DMI number:

1453

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1735

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T95243

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n/a

Shelfmark:

BL C.117.a.66

Full Title:

THE | WORKS | Of the EARLS of | ROCHESTER, | [i]ROSCOMON[/i], | AND | DORSET: | Also those of the Dukes of | [i]DEVONSHIRE[/i], | AND | BUCKINGHAMSHIRE; | To which is added, the | [i]CABINET of LOVE[/i], | And several other | POEMS | On diverse SUBJECTS, never before printed. | [rule] | [i]Adorned with CUTS[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] Printed by T. GOODCURL, 1735. | [Price bound 2 [i]s[/i]. 6 [i]d[/i].

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

2 s. 6 d.

Pagination:

[2] [iii]-xi, i-v, [6]-7

Bibliographic details:

HALF-TITLE (sig. S): [ornamental rule] | THE | CABINET | OF | LOVE. | [rule] | ---- [i]O Ppassae Genialia praelia Matres, | Virgineam intactae Zonam discingite Sponae, | Intrepidosque afflate animos, jam nuda Mariti | Membra Cupidineam fervent intrare Palaestram. | Quillet[/i]. Callip. Lib. 2. | [ornamental rule]

Comments:

PLATES: Frontispiece and facing pp.20, 28, 58, 164, 193 and 194. Unsigned. Page cues match position, but they may not have been made for this edition - the plate for 'The Disappointment,' for instance, appears in the middle of Buckingham's 'Essay on Poetry'. PAGINATION: p.104 is misnumbered '84' CONTENTS: Prose pp.21-28 (Bendo's speech).

Other matter:

PREFATORY: 'The Character of the Earl of Rochester' (pp.[iii]-vi); Contents (pp.[vii]-xii).

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Printer:

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Content/Publication

First Line:

What words what sense what night-piece can express

Page No:

pp.iv-v

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Earl of Rochester,

Attribution:

by an unknown Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay

Page No:

p.i

Poem Title:

A Pastoral on the Death of the Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

By Mr. Flatman.

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

Mourn mourn ye muses all your loss deplore

Page No:

pp.i-iv

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Earl of Rochester,

Attribution:

by Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Were I who to my cost already am

Page No:

pp.[6]-12

Poem Title:

Satire against Man.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Well sir tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes

Page No:

pp.12-15

Poem Title:

Horace's Tenth Satire of the First Book imitated.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Must I with patience ever silent sit

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

An Imitation of the First Satire of Juvenal.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Not Rome in all her splendour could compare

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

Satire on the Times.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Preserved by wonder in the oak O Charles

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

A Satire which the King took out of his Pocket.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

In the isle of Great Britain long since famous known

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

The Satire on the King, for which he was banished the Court, and turned Mountebank.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head

Page No:

pp.28-33

Poem Title:

Tunbridge-Wells, A Satire.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Have you not seen the raging stormy main

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

To all Curious Critics and Admirers of Metre.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair

Page No:

pp.34-37

Poem Title:

The Happy Night.

Attribution:

By the late Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Fruition was the question in debate

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

The Imperfect Enjoyment.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Husband thou dull unpitied miscreant

Page No:

pp.39-41

Poem Title:

A Satire against Marriage.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Chaste pious prudent Charles the second

Page No:

pp.41-45

Poem Title:

The Restauration: Or, The History of Insipids. A Lampoon.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Clarendon had law and sense

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Young Statesmen: A Satire.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Pride lust ambition and the people's hate

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

On the Lord Chancellor Hyde.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Prologue: Against the Disturbers of the Pit.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

When Shakespeare Jonson Fletcher ruled the stage

Page No:

pp.48-51

Poem Title:

In Defense of Satire:

Attribution:

By Sir Carr Scroope.

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

The Earl of Rochester's Answer to the foregoing Satire.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Of a great heroine I mean to tell

Page No:

pp.52-54

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick upon Nelly.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

The Royal Angler.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Methinks I see you newly risen

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Portsmouth's Looking Glass.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Let ancients boast no more

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Lais Junior: A Pindarick.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Nothing thou elder brother even to shade

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Upon Nothing.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Much wine had passed with grave discourse

Page No:

pp.60-64

Poem Title:

A Ramble in St. James's Park,

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

How Tallboy K- P- S- P- did contend

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

The Argument.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Say heaven born muse for only thou can'st tell

Page No:

pp.65-69

Poem Title:

Bath Intrigues.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Thou mighty princess lovely queen of holes

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

On the Charms of Hidden Treasure. A Paradox.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Too long the wise commons have been in debate

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

On the Women about Town.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Twas when the sable mantle of the night

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

A Dream.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Why dost thou shade thy lovely face O why

Page No:

pp.71-73

Poem Title:

To his Mistress.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Tell me abandoned miscreant prithee tell

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

To the Author of a Play called Sodom.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Between Father Patrick and his highness of late

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

His Highness's Conversion by Father Patrick.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

On Rome's Pardons.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

At the sight of my Phillis from every part

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Farewell false woman know I'll ever be

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

On a False Mistress.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

My dear mistress had a heart

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Room room for a blade of the town

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after having heard him Sing Psalms.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

A knight delights in hardy deeds of arms

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

Acrostick.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

By heavens 'twas bravely done

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

Spoken Extempore, upon receiving a Fall at Whitehall-Gate, by attempting to kiss the Duchess of Cleveland as she was stepping out of her Chariot.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

In all humility we crave

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

The Commons Petition to King Charles II.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Tis the Arabian bird alone

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

The Encouragement.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Here lies our sovereign lord the king

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

The King's Epitaph.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

The heavens carouse each day a cup

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

Anacreontic.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Insulting beauty you misspend

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

O that I now could by some chymic art

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

She was so exquisite a whore

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

Written under Nelly's Picture.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

In a dark silent shady grove

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

Et Caetera. A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Naked she lay clasped in my longing arms

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

The Disappointment.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

One day the amorous Lysander

Page No:

pp.84-88

Poem Title:

The Insensible.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Whilst happy I triumphant stood

Page No:

pp.88-90

Poem Title:

On a Juniper-Tree cut down to make Busks.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

What Timon does old age begin to approach

Page No:

pp.91-95

Poem Title:

The Rehearsal. A Satire.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Since the sons of the muses grew numerous and loud

Page No:

pp.95-98

Poem Title:

A Session of the Poets.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

My goddess Lydia heavenly fair

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

A Lyrick Poem: In Imitation of Cornelius Gallus.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Sweet hyacinth my life my joy

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

Apollo's Grief, for having killed Hyacinth by Accident. An Imitation of Ovid.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Where is he gone whom I adore

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Woman was made man's sovereignty to own

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Woman's Usurpation.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

I rise at eleven I dine about two

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

The Debauchee.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Have you not in a chimney seen

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

The Maidenhead.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

How far are they deceived who hope in vain

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet complaining of his Inconstancy.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Madam | If you're deceived it is not by my cheat

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

A very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Dreaming last night on Mrs Farley

Page No:

pp.105-107

Poem Title:

An Epistle from B. to E.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name / 'B.' identified as 'Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset' in note on p.105.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

Charles Sackville

First Line:

As crafty harlots use to shrink

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

E---'s Answer.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name / 'E---' identified as Mr. Etherege, afterwards Sir George Etherege' in note on p.105.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

John Wilmot

First Line:

If I can guess the devil choke me

Page No:

pp.109-111

Poem Title:

The Second Epistle from B. to E.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name / 'B.' identified as 'Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset' in note on p.105.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

Charles Sackville

First Line:

So soft and amorously you write

Page No:

pp.111-113

Poem Title:

E---'s Answer.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name / 'E---' identified as Mr. Etherege, afterwards Sir George Etherege' in note on p.105.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

John Wilmot

First Line:

Tired with the noisome follies of the age

Page No:

pp.113-119

Poem Title:

Rochester's Farewel.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

No longer blame those on the banks of Nile

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

A Riddle.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

Some Verses sent by a Friend to one who twice ventur'd his Carcase in Marriage.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

You ladies all of merry england

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

Signior Dildoe.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

The wit of Greece the gravity of Rome

Page No:

p.[124]

Poem Title:

Mr. Dryden's Character of the Earl of Roscomon.

Attribution:

John Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves

Page No:

p.[126]

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

From deepest dungeons of eternal night

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New one appointed to meet at Oxford, 1681.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Shame of my life disturber of my tomb

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

The Speech of Tom Ross's Ghost, to his Pupil, the Duke of Monmouth.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Winter thy cruelty extend

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Stanzas on a Young Lady who Sung finely, but was afraid of a Cold.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Thou happy creature art secure

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Lady's Lap Dog.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace. Book I. Ode 22.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The day of wrath that dreadful day

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

On the Last Judgement.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second: Written in the Year 1680.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Come on ye critics find one fault who dare

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honor, on his Incomparable Incomprehensible Poems.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New Exchange.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Proud with the spoils of royal cully

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Tarugo gave us wonder and delight

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

To Sir Thomas St. Serfe; on his Play called Tarugo Wiles: Or, the Coffee-House. A Comedy. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, 1668.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Many have been the vain attempts of wit

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken by Tartuffe.

Attribution:

Collected under the name of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

Epilogue On the Revival of Ben Johnson's Play called, Every Man in his Humor.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

A Song to Chloris.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

A Song on Black Bess.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

To all you ladies now at land

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Song, Written at Sea, in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

I love as well as others do

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

A Mock Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.[145]-152

Poem Title:

Dryden's Satire to his Muse.

Attribution:

Written by the Lord Somers.

Attributed To:

John Somers

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

The Injoyment.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Otway]

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

I did but look and love a while

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

The Inchantment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.154-158

Poem Title:

Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from the Eight Book of Ovid.

Attribution:

By Jonathan Swift, D. D.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Cambray you set when heavenly love you write

Page No:

pp.159-162

Poem Title:

...Allusion to the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus. Written in the Year 1707.

Attribution:

The Duke of Devonshire's

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.163-172

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Slow rising night had her black flag unfurled

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

The Dream. Occasion'd by the Death of Q. Anne.

Attribution:

By Aaron Hill, Esq;

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Twas one may morning when the clouds undrawn

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

The Wedding-Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

While in the mall my Celia shone

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

The Gnat.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

Susannah and the two Elders. An Imitation of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

The same attempted in a modern stile.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

The modest stone that few marbles can

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Fenton, 1730.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Roscomon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Justly to name the better cause were hard

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Mr. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

The partial gods espoused the victor's side

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Mr. Campbell.

Attributed To:

Mr. Campbell

First Line:

Heaven meanly with the conqueror did comply

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The gods and Cato did in this divide

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

The Gods espoused and crowned the victor's side

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

Dr. Lockhart.

Attributed To:

Dr. Lockhart

First Line:

Give me great God said I a little farm

Page No:

pp.180-182

Poem Title:

The Prospect, Written in the Chiosk at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, Dec 26, 1717.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.183-185

Poem Title:

Horace. Book III. Ode III. Imitated.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile

Page No:

pp.185-187

Poem Title:

Horace. Book IV. Ode V. Imitated. Addressed to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated in the Original.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She lay all naked in her bed

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

The Delusion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll tell you how the rose did first grow red

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

To his Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O heaven's great wonders why did you bring to light

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

On a Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nay pish nay go away what will you fie

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Woman's Resistance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lowest shrubs have tops the ants have gall

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

True Love wants Rhetoric.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beauty be no more so coy

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hate me dear soul and say no more you love

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

To a Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let me sit always uppermost at board

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

The English Woman's Choice.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Her for a mistress wou'd I fain enjoy

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

The Choice of a Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What means this strangeness now of late

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

To a coy Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

The Discovery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies | To you I take the liberty

Page No:

p.[196]-197

Poem Title:

The Natural History Of The Arbor Vitae: Or The Tree of Life; verify'd. Addressed to the Ladies; [...] To the Fair Sex.

Attribution:

by a Member of a Society of Gardeners

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The invocation that we make

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

Argument

Attribution:

by a Member of a Society of Gardeners

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou god to whose great memory

Page No:

pp.198-203

Poem Title:

Arbor Vitae. Canto I.

Attribution:

by a Member of a Society of Gardeners

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beside the vulgar name they give

Page No:

pp.203-206

Poem Title:

Canto II.

Attribution:

By a Member of a Society of Gardeners.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The names and virtues next come under

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

Argument.

Attribution:

by a Member of a Society of Gardeners

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such a sad tale prepare to hear

Page No:

pp.206-210

Poem Title:

Dildoides... Occasioned by Burning a Hogshead of those Commodities at Stocks-Market, in the Year 1672, pursuant to an Act of Parliament then made for the prohibiting of French Goods.

Attribution:

By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

When nature once like Nile the -- overflows

Page No:

pp.211-220

Poem Title:

The Delights of Venus. Translated from Meursius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Was ever mortal man like me

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

Lord Rochester Against His Whore-Pipe.

Attribution:

Lord Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

Page No:

pp.222-223

Poem Title:

An Interlude. Actus I. Scene I. The Scene a Bed-Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O all ye nymphs in lawless love's disport

Page No:

pp.222-227

Poem Title:

Footnotes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Against the charms our B---- have

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

Satyre on a Whore. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By all ye soft yet mighty powers

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

Advice to the Kind Ladies. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Quoth the duchess of Cl---- to Mrs Knight

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

Mrs. Knight's Advise to the Duchess of Cl---land. Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the fields of Lincoln's Inn

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

The Insatiable.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vulcan contrive me such a cup

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

A Drinking Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas near the mighty senate house where lie

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

The Anniversary or Pious Memory of May 29, 1690.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed