The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T95241]
- DMI number:
- 1452
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T95241
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- n/a
- Shelfmark:
- BL C.123.c.3
- Full Title:
- POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | By the EARLS of | [i]ROSCOMMON[/i], | AND | DORSET, | AND | The DUKES of | [i]Devonshire, Buckinghamshire,[/i] &c. | [rule] VOLUME II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year MDCCXX.
- Epigraph:
- Epigraph to 'Cabinet of Love' (half-title p.217, following vol. II): ---[i]O passae Genialia praelia Matres, | Virgineam intactae Zonam discingite Sponsae, | Intrepidosque afflate animos, jam nuda Mariti | Membra Cupidineam fervent intrare Palaestram. | Quillet[/i]. Callip. Lib. 2.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse, Made-up miscellany, and Miscellany associated with group of poets
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-x, 1-200, [6], 217-240, [1].
- Bibliographic details:
- As in other volumes in this series, the volume closes with 'The Cabinet of Love'. This is gathering K, making register appear continuous (vol. 2 finishes on sig. I12v); but the disrupted pagination indicates that this gathering was initially printed for use in a different edition.
- Comments:
- PAGINATION: p.188 is misnumbered '88' PLATES: Frontispiece (Signed J. Clark, with epigraph from Rochester's Allusion to Horace: "For pointed Satire, I wou'd Buckhurst chuse; | The best good Man, with the worst natur'd Muse."); and facing page 218 in 'The Cabinet of Love' (unsigned). The engraving to 'The Discovery' in 'The Cabinet of Love' is folded rather playfully. HALF TITLES: 1. [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY THE | Earl of [i]DORSET[/i]. | [ornamental rule] (p.[19]) 2. [ornamental rule] THE | CABINET | OF | LOVE. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [ornamental rule] (p.217) CONTENTS: prose pp.21-23; pp.139-142
- Other matter:
- 'Some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Earl of Roscommon' (pp.iii-ix); 'His Lordship's Genuine Works...' (p.x). At end of vol. II but before the 'Cabinet of Love: 'The Contents of the Earl of Rochester's Works. (3pp.); 'The Contents of the Second Volume' (3pp.).
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol I] [T95241]
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- ESTC No:
- T95241
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Publication Date:
- 1735
- ESTC No:
- T95243
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol I] [T95241]
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- ESTC No:
- T95241
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Such was Roscommon not more learned than good
- Page No:
- p.ix
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Essay on Criticism.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- The Vision.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.5-7
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost of the late House of Commons, to the New one appointed to meet at Oxford, in the Year 1681.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- 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.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Song, On A Young Lady, Who sung finely, but was afraid of a Cold.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thou happy creature art secure
- Page No:
- p.12
- 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:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- To Orinda. In 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.15-18
- Poem Title:
- On The Day of Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- 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:
- Proud with the spoils of royal cully
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- On the Same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Dolly's beauty and art
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- On Dolly Chamberlain, A Semstress In The New Exchange.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes
- Page No:
- pp.27-43
- Poem Title:
- A Faithful Catalogue Of our most Eminent Ninnies.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Earl of Dorset, in the Year 1686.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Come on ye critics find one fault who dare
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- To a Person of Honour, upon his Incomparable Incomprehensible Poem.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tarugo gave us wonder and delight
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Thomas St. Serfe; on the Printing his Play call'd Tarugo's Wiles.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Many have been the vain attempts of wit
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Tartuffe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Entreaty shall not serve nor violence
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue upon the Reviving of Ben Johnson's Play call'd, Every Man in his Humour.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- At noon in a sunshiny day
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Knotting.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- A Song to Chloris from the Blind Archer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- To all ye ladies now at land
- Page No:
- pp.58-61
- Poem Title:
- Song, Written at Sea in the first Dutch War.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife
- Page No:
- pp.62-73
- Poem Title:
- Dryden's Satire to his Muse.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Lord Somers.
- Attributed To:
- John Somers
- First Line:
- I did but look and love a while
- Page No:
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- The Inchantment.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Clasped in the arms of her I love
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- The Enjoyment.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Otway]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell
- Page No:
- pp.77-104
- Poem Title:
- The Miller's Tale. From Chaucer. Inscrib'd to N. Rowe, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.105-112
- Poem Title:
- Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from the 8th Book of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Jonathan Swift, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Tway mice full blithe and amicable
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- Erle Robert's Mice. A Tale. In Imitation of Chaucer
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- Susannah And The two Elders.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- The Same. Attempted in a Modern Stile.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Studious the busy moments to deceive
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- To His Friends. From the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Dear Dick however it comes into his head
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- Horace Lib. I. Epist. IX.... To the Right Honourable Robert Harley, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Whilst I am scorched with hot desire
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Song To his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When crowding folks with strange ill faces
- Page No:
- pp.123-126
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To Sir Fleetwood Sheppard.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Long our divided state
- Page No:
- pp.127-131
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of Queen Mary.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Devonshire.
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- Cambray you set when heavenly love you write
- Page No:
- pp.132-137
- Poem Title:
- An Allusion To the Bishop of Cambray's Supplement of Homer. Written in the Year 1707.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. the Duke of Devonshire]
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- What can the British senate give
- Page No:
- pp.143-156
- Poem Title:
- The Female Reign; An Ode. Attempted in the Style of Pindar.
- Attribution:
- S. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Here the young muse instructed how to sing
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- On the following Essay.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Welsted.
- Attributed To:
- Leonard Welsted
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Page No:
- pp.159-172
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By His Grace John, Duke of Buckinghamshire
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- The man that's resolute and just
- Page No:
- pp.173-176
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Lib. III. Ode. 3. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By William Walsh, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile
- Page No:
- pp.177-180
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Lib. IV. Ode 5. Imitated. Address'd 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:
- When weeping majesty through clouds appears
- Page No:
- pp.181-186
- Poem Title:
- To The Queen, On The Death of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark.
- Attribution:
- By Joseph Trapp, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- First Line:
- When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom
- Page No:
- pp.187-190
- Poem Title:
- A Poem On The Death of our late most gracious Sovereign Queen Anne; and the Accession of his most excellent Majesty King George. Translated from the Latin of Bp. Smalridge,
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Sewell
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Was ever mortal man like me
- Page No:
- pp.191-193
- Poem Title:
- Lord Rochester Against His Whore-Pipe.
- Attribution:
- Lord Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I love as well as others do
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- The Mock Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For standing -- we kind nature thank
- Page No:
- pp.195-196
- Poem Title:
- An Interlude. Actus I. Scena I. The Scene, A Bed Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Give me great God said I a little farm
- Page No:
- pp.197-200
- Poem Title:
- The Prospect. Written in the Chiosk at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1717.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole
- Page No:
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- The Discovery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Such a sad tale prepare to hear
- Page No:
- pp.221-227
- Poem Title:
- Dildoides... Occasion'd by a 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.228-240
- Poem Title:
- The Delights of Venus. Translated from Meursius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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