Familiar letters of love, gallantry and several occasions by the wits of the last and present age [Vol I] [T64796]

DMI number:

373

Publication Date:

1718

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T64796

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113583095

Shelfmark:

BOD - Harding M72

Full Title:

[i]Familiar Letters[/i] | OF | LOVE, GALLANTRY, | [i]And several OCCASIONS[/i], | By the WITS of the last and present Age, | [i]VIZ.[/i] | [column one] | Mr. BUTLER, Author of | [i]HUDIBRASS[/i]. | Mr. FLATMAN. | Mr. DRYDEN. | Mr. CONGREVE. | Mr. WYCHERLEY. | Mr. DENNIS. | Mr. FARQUHAR. | Mr. EDW. WARD. | Mr. MOYLE. | Mr. OTWAY. | Mrs. BEHN. | [end of column one] | [column two] | Mrs. MANLY. | Mrs. TROTTER. | Mrs. CENTLIVRE. | Sir -- -- | Sir R. L'ESTRANGE. | Sir -- -- | Sir JOHN DENHAM. | Sir GEO. ETHEREGE. | Earl of CLARENDON. | Earl of DORSET. | D. of BUCKINGHAM. | D. DEVONSHIRE, [i]&c.[/i] | [end of column two] | From their ORIGINALS. | [i]With their EFFIGIES Curiously Engraved by the Best[/i] Masters | Together with | Mr. [i]T. Brown[/i]'s Remains; | Being LETTERS and DIALOGUES on the | Times, not Printed in his Works. | [rule] | The whole in Two Volumes, Compleat. | [rule] | [i]LONDON]/i], Printed for SAM. BRISCOE. | [i]R. Smith, G. Strahan, E. Symons, J. Osborne, J. Brotherton,[/i] | at the [i]Royal Exchange[/i]: [i]W. Taylor, A. Bettesworth, J. | Batley,[/i] in [i]Pater-noster-row[/i]: [i]J. Brown, W. Mears, F. Clay,[/i] | without [i]Temple-bar[/i]: [i]J. Barnes, J. Greaves,[/i] in St. | [i]James[/i]s; and [i]J. Morphew[/i] near [i]Stationers-Hall[/i]. 1718. |

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

pp.[i]-[x], 1-256.

Comments:

Contents: Engraving of Congreve facing title page; Dedication (signed 'Sam Briscoe') pp.[iii]-[vi]; Table of contents pp.[vii]-[x]; engraving of Butler facing p.1; engraving of Behn facing p.29; letters by Behn pp.31-39; reflections and annotations by Mr. Oldham pp.62-81; 'A collection of letters by several eminent hands' pp.93-200; engraving of Wycherley facing p. 121; Memoirs of Eloisa and Abelard pp.211-238; letters pp.238-256. **NOTE: Originally published as ’Familiar and courtly letters, written by Monsieur Voiture’, London, 1700. [ESTC] MISCELLANY GENRE: Miscellany including poems and letters

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Title:

Familiar letters of love, gallantry and several occasions by the wits of the last and present age [Vol II] [T64796 ]

Publication Date:

1718

ESTC No:

T64796

Volume:

2 of 2

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Title:

Familiar letters of love, gallantry and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol II] [T64784]

Publication Date:

1724

ESTC No:

T64784

Volume:

2 of 2

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Title:

Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol I] [T64784]

Publication Date:

1724

ESTC No:

T64784

Volume:

1 of 2

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Arthur Bettesworth

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'Printed for SAM. BRISCOE. R. Smith, G. Strahan, E. Symons, J. Osborne, J. Brotherton, at the Royal Exchange: W. Taylor, A. Bettesworth, J. Batley,in Pater-noster-row: J. Brown, W. Mears, F. Clay, without Temple-bar: J. Barnes, J. Greaves, in St. James's; and J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall.'

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J. Greaves

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Widow this comes to let you know

Page No:

pp.1-10

Poem Title:

Sir Hudibras's Epistle to the Widow Blackgrove.

Attribution:

By Mr. Samuel Butler

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night

Page No:

pp.11-17

Poem Title:

The Widow's Answer to the Knight.

Attribution:

Collected under Butler's name

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair one the letter that you sent me

Page No:

pp.17-22

Poem Title:

The Knight's second Letter to the Widow Blackgrove.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Butler].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since your good mistress and my master

Page No:

pp.23-26

Poem Title:

Ralpho's Love-Epistle to Damaris, the Widow Blackgrove's Handmaid.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Butler]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sure Ralpho never knight and squire

Page No:

pp.26-29

Poem Title:

Mrs. Damaris's Answer to Squire Ralph.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Butler].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The peaceful place where gladly I resort

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Love-Letters... never before Printed. To Mrs. Price.

Attribution:

By Mrs. A. Behn

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not your saying that you love

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

P. S. A Song.

Attribution:

A. Behn.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lord | We pity such as are by tempest lost

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

A Letter to the Earl of Kildare, diswading him from marrying Moll Howard.

Attribution:

Collected under Behn's name.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

One day the amorous Lysander

Page No:

pp.39-45

Poem Title:

P. S. An Imperfect Enjoyment.

Attribution:

A. Behn

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Bright nymphs the objects of mankind's desires

Page No:

pp.45-62

Poem Title:

Byblis's passionate Love-Letter to her Brother. From Ovid's Metamorphosis.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dennis.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go love born accents of my dying heart

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

To his Mistress.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Dear Moyle blessed youth whose forward wit pursues

Page No:

pp.83-85

Poem Title:

A Letter to Walter Moyle, Esq;

Attribution:

By Anthony Hamond, Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let my endeavours as my hopes depend

Page No:

pp.85-92

Poem Title:

A Satyr against Poetry, in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorsett.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since love and verse as well as wine

Page No:

pp.201-204

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Middleton.

Attribution:

Written by Sir George Etheridge, when he was Embassador at Ratisbon in Germany, June 10. 1686.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

From hunting whores and haunting play

Page No:

pp.204-206

Poem Title:

Sir George Etheridge's Second Letter to the Earl of Middleton.

Attribution:

Sir George Etheridge

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

To you who hang like Mecca's tomb

Page No:

pp.206-210

Poem Title:

An Inversion of Mr. Dryden's Answer to Sir George Etheridge's Letter to the Earl of Middleton. By Way of Essay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed