Poems on several occasions [T75657]

DMI number:

701

Publication Date:

1754

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T75657

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111617773

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 2470

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | Several Occasions.| BY | [i]MATTHEW PRIOR[/i], Esq; | [rule] | VOLUME THE SECOND. | [rule] | THE FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | To which is Prefixed, | [i]The[/i] LIFE [i]of Mr[/i] PRIOR, | By [i]SAMUEL HUMPHREYS[/i] Esq; | [rule] | ADORNED WITH CUTS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[i] | Printed for C. HITCH at the [i]Red Lyon[/i] in [i]Pater-|Noster-Row[/i], and J. HODGES at the [i]Looking- | Glass[/i] over against St [i]Magnus-Church London- | Bridge[/i]. | [rule] | M.DCC.LIV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[12pp.], [xiii]-lxxii, [1]-16, [17]-148, [2pp.], [151]-236, [2pp.], [239]-356.

Bibliographic details:

Fourth Edition. PAGINATION: p.146 mispaginated as '138'. No pagination on p.[1], [17], [149-151], [239]. Separate title-page for 'Solomon De Mundi Vanitate’. The second part consists of ’Original poems and translations by several hands’, with a half-title printed on the recto of the frontispiece, which bears the catchword "Vol.II." and was perhaps originally part of another collection. HALF TITLE: [ornamental rule] | ORIGINAL POEMS | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornamental rule]

Comments:

CONTENTS: Engraved frontispiece; title-page; Dedicatory epistle to ‘His Grace Lionel, Duke of Dorset' signed by Samuel Humphreys [4p.]; Table of contents [4p.]; ‘Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Prior’, containing prose and verse[xiii-lxxii]; Poems by Matthew Prior [236p.]; ‘Original Poems and Translations by Several Hands’ [120p.]. Latin verse on p.xxxix-xl, pp.151-236; French verse on p. 117. PLATES: Opposite title-page, p.[1], p.[17], p.[239].

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Dedicatory epistle to ‘His Grace Lionel, Duke of Dorset' signed by Samuel Humphreys [4pp.]; Table of contents [4pp.]; ‘Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Prior’, containing prose and verse[xiii-lxxii]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1767

ESTC No:

T75638

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

Poems on several occasions [T75645]

Publication Date:

1742

ESTC No:

T75645

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

Lionel Cranfield Sackville

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Dedicatory epistle by Samuel Humphreys.

Publisher:

C. Hitch

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

James Hodges

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Could I great bard o could I share

Page No:

pp.xx-xxi

Poem Title:

To Matthew Prior, Esq

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle

Page No:

pp.lxvii-lxxi

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, On His Solomon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Prior's muse prepares to sing

Page No:

pp.liiii-lv

Poem Title:

On the Same Occasion,

Attribution:

By Mr. A.T. of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst Harley with more near approaches blessed

Page No:

pp.lviii-lxiiii

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr Prior, on the Folio Edition of his Poems, 1718.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let tears no more lament the dead in vain

Page No:

p.xlv-xlvi

Poem Title:

On the Publication of some Posthumous Pieces of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

W. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Matt Prior and we must submit

Page No:

pp.xliii-xlv

Poem Title:

Threnus: Or Stanzas on the Death of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

By Robert Ingram, Esq;

Attributed To:

Robert Ingram

First Line:

I've listened long and now would silence break

Page No:

pp.xxvii-xxxiv

Poem Title:

Horace, Satire VII. Book VII. Davus and Horace.

Attribution:

In the preface signed 'J. Dennis', '...I appeal to you, Sir, if the Satire of Horace the Translation of which comes after this Letter [...]'.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

The first great man who made the world his own

Page No:

pp.l-liii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior On his Carmen Saeculare.

Attribution:

By James Marshall, Esq,

Attributed To:

James Marshall

First Line:

Receive great bard thanks from the meanest muse

Page No:

pp.lxv-lxvi

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior,

Attribution:

By Mr J. Newcome, Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge, Nov. 14th, 1719.

Attributed To:

J. Newcome

First Line:

As bards of old in nobler lays could sing

Page No:

pp.lvi-lviii

Poem Title:

On the Same Occasion,

Attribution:

Geo. Waldron, Olim. Coll. Reg. Oxon.

Attributed To:

George Waldron

First Line:

Let Britain now at last no more complain

Page No:

pp.xlvii-l

Poem Title:

On Mr Prior's Collection of Poems, 1709.

Attribution:

G. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Oft have I thought great bard in my poor cell

Page No:

pp.lxvi-lxvii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior,

Attribution:

By Francis Peck, M. A. 1720

Attributed To:

Francis Peck

First Line:

Mean artifice to gild precarious fame

Page No:

p.lxxii

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr Prior's Monument.

Attribution:

Cha. Beckingham.

Attributed To:

Charles Beckingham

First Line:

The nymph whose virgin heart thy charms have taught

Page No:

p.lxxii

Poem Title:

Lady Winchelsea to Mr Prior.

Attribution:

Lady Winchelsea to Mr Prior.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Behind an unfrequented glade

Page No:

pp.[1]-15

Poem Title:

The Turtle and Sparrow.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O dearest daughter of two dearest friends

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Application.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece

Page No:

pp.[17]-24

Poem Title:

Down-Hall: A Ballad. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Written in the Year M DCC XV.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When crowding folks with strange ill faces

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq; 1689.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O Phoebus deity whose powerful hand

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

To my Learned Friend Samuel Shaw, At Taking his Doctor's Degree, at Leyden, and defending a Thesis on the Jaundice.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

On Bishop Atterbury's Burying the Duke of Buckinghamshire, 1721.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I sent for Radcliffe was so ill

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

The Remedy Worse than the Disease.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

How long deluded Albion wilt thou lie

Page No:

pp.30-40

Poem Title:

An Ode, In Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Written Anno 1692.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Madam | Since Anna visited the muses' seat

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Verses Spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish-Holles Harley, Countess of Oxford, In the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge, November IX, 1719.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

What would my humble comrades have me say

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Orphan, Represented by some of the Westminster Scholars, at Hickford's Dancing-Room in Panton-Street, near Leicester-Fields, the Second of February, 1720. Spoken by the Lord Duplin, who acted Cordelio.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

It always has been thought discreet

Page No:

pp.43-46

Poem Title:

The Conversation. A Tale.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred

Page No:

pp.47-50

Poem Title:

Colin's Mistakes. Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Wissin and nature held a long contest

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

To The Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Devonshire; On a Piece of Wiessen's, whereon were all her Grandson's Painted.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thus Kitty beautiful and young

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

The Female Phaeton.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Kneller's works of various grace

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Judgment of Venus.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Nobles and heralds by your leave

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

Epitaph Extempory.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

To Chloe.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Abate fair fugitive abate thy speed

Page No:

pp.58-62

Poem Title:

Daphne and Apollo: Imitated, from the first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Heavy O Lord on me thy judgments lie

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Considerations On Part of the LXXXVIIIth Psalm. A College Exercise, 1690.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The town which Louis bought Nassau reclaims

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

On the Taking of Namur, 1695.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Pish lord I wish this prologue was but Greek

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Prologue Spoken by Lord Buckhurst, in Westminster-School, at Christmas, 1695, in the Character of Cleonidas, in Mr. Dryden's Cleomenes.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

The Secretary. Written at the Hague, 1696.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Lords knights and squires the numerous band

Page No:

pp.66-68

Poem Title:

To A Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704; The Author then Forty.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The sturdy man if he in love obtains

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Partial Fame.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When you with high dutch heeren dine

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Upon this Passage in Scaligeriana.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Two mice dear boy of genteel fashion

Page No:

pp.69-73

Poem Title:

The Mice. To Mr. Adrian Drift.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'. Signed 'Your's entirely, Matthew'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Sphinx was a monster that would eat

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Two Riddles, 1710.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The fox an actor's vizard found

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

A Fable.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Of Nero tyrant petty king

Page No:

pp.75-86

Poem Title:

The Viceroy. A Ballad. To the Tune of The Lady Isabella's Tragedy: Or, The Step-Mother's Cruelty.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

Bibo and Charon.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Nell given over by the doctor was dying

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

Nell and John.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

The Modern Saint.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O death how thou spoilst the best project of life

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

Wives by the Dozen.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

Fatal Love.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

A Sailor's Wife.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Prometheus forming Mr Day

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

The Parallel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When hungry wolves had trespassed on the fold

Page No:

p.90

Poem Title:

A Greek Epigram Imitated.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Reader I was born and cried

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

On a Fart, let in the House of Commons.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Jove lay blessed in his Alcmena's charms

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

To a Friend on his Nuptials.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O with what woes am I oppressed

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

Husband and Wife.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

You madam may with safety go

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady, Who was fond of Fortune-Telling.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

It oft to many has successful been

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

Cupid in Ambush.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Will Piggot must to Coxwould go

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

The Wandering Pilgrim.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Cupid turned Plowman. From Moschus.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thus to the muses spoke the Cyprian dame

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Venus's Advice to the Muses.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

No I'll endure ten thousand deaths

Page No:

pp.99-101

Poem Title:

Chaste Florimel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst I in prison or in court look down

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

To Fortune.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let others from the town retire

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Non Pareil.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Honour I say or honest fame

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

Upon Honour. A Fragment.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

That all from Adam first began

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

The Old Gentry.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

The Insatiable Priest.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

The Incurable.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Pontius who loves you know a joke

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Pontius and Pontia.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When Willis of Ephraim heard Rochester preach

Page No:

pp.106

Poem Title:

Doctors Differ.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

So good a wife doth Lissy make

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

Cautious Alice.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Lysander talks extremely well

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

The Pedant.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Of thy judicious muse's sense

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

To A Poet of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

At dead of night when stars appear

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Cupid turn'd Stroller. From Anacreon.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

Enigma.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Formed half beneath and half above the earth

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

Enigma.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

Truth told at last.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Now how shall I do with my love and my pride

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

A Case Stated.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Why thus from the plain does my shepherdess rove

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

Imitated. [Chanson]

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I my dear was born today

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

On my Birth-Day. July XXI

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

As doctors give physic by way of prevention

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

For my own Monument.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

I know that fortune long has wanted sight

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Upon Playing at Ombre With Two Ladies.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Soft cupid wanton amorous boy

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Cupid's Promise, Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Once on a time in sunshine weather

Page No:

pp.119-121

Poem Title:

Truth and Falshood. A Tale.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

This lamp which Prior to his Harley gave

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Engraven on Three-Sides of an Antique-Lamp, given by me to Lord Harley: Mat. Prior.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'. 'Mat. Prior'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Reading ends in melancholy

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

Songs... I. Set by Mr. Abel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whither would my passion run

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

Songs... II. Set by Mr. Purcel.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Come weep no more for tis in vain

Page No:

pp.123-125

Poem Title:

Songs... IV. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Strephonetta why do ye fly me

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

Songs... III. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Let perjured fair Aminta know

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

Songs... V. Set by. Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis since we have both been kind

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Songs... VI. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis this pious talk give over

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

Songs... VII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Still Dorinda I adore

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Songs... VIII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Is it o love thy want of eyes

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Songs... IX. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Why Harry what ails you why look you so sad

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

Songs... X. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Morella charming without art

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

Songs... XI. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since my words though never so tender

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

Songs... XII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Love inform thy faithful creature

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

Songs... XIII. Set by Mr De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Once I was unconfined and free

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

Songs... XIV. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Farewell Amynta we must part

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Songs... XV. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Accept my love as true a heart

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

Songs... XVI. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Nanny blushes when I woo her

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

Songs... XVII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since we your husband daily see

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Songs... XVIII. Set by Mr. Smith.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Phillis give this humour over

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Songs... XIX. Set by C. R.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since by ill fate I'm forced away

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

Songs... XX. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Touch the lyre every string

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

Songs... XXI. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

In vain alas poor Strephon tries

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

Songs... XXII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Well I will never more complain

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Songs... XXIII. Set by Mr. De Fesch.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Chloe beauty has and wit

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Songs... XXIV. Set by Mr. C. R.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Since Moggy I mun bid adieu

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

Songs... XXV.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Some kind angel gently flying

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

Songs... XXVI.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Haste my Nannette

Page No:

pp.138 [146]-147

Poem Title:

Songs... XXVII.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Whilst others proclaim

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

Songs... XXVIII. Nelly.

Attribution:

Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Beauty's a gaudy sign no more

Page No:

pp.[239]-241

Poem Title:

The Curious Maid. In Imitation of Mr. Prior

Attribution:

By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

O thou designed by nature to control

Page No:

pp.241-244

Poem Title:

The Silent Flute: Or, The Members Speech to their Soveraign.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Jacob Hildebrand].

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

Celia this night has promised I

Page No:

pp.244-245

Poem Title:

An Allusion to Horace. Ode XXX. Book I.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e., Hildebrand Jacob]

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

You who like Proteus in all shapes appear

Page No:

pp.246-254

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e., Hildebrand Jacob]

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

With flowing pomp and beauteous pride

Page No:

pp.255-258

Poem Title:

A Ship in a Storm.

Attribution:

By a Sailor.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Phoebus darted forth a milder ray

Page No:

pp.258-261

Poem Title:

Strada's Nightingale. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Where the fair Paphian goddess keeps her court

Page No:

pp.261-266

Poem Title:

The Court of Venus, From Claudian.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e, Pattison]

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure

Page No:

pp.267-269

Poem Title:

Dobson and Joan: A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr B****.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man that is drunk is void of all care

Page No:

pp.269-271

Poem Title:

Horace's Integer Vitae, &c. Imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e., 'Mr. B****']

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such words the prophet's indignation raise

Page No:

pp.271-275

Poem Title:

The Story Of Orpheus and Eurydice. From The Fourth Georgic of Virgil.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphreys, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

Thank heaven at last our wars are over

Page No:

pp.276-291

Poem Title:

Vertumnus. An Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart. Botany Professor to the University of Oxford. and Keeper of the Physic-Garden.

Attribution:

By Dr. Evans, 1711.

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Read the commandments Trapp translate no further

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

Written in a Blank-Leaf of Dr Trapp's Blank-Verse-Translation of Virgil.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e., Abel Evans]

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Whilst you my Lord acquire a deathless name

Page No:

pp.292-305

Poem Title:

Cannons. Inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Chandos. [...] Written in the Year 1728.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphreys, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

When heaven has once with rich profusion joined

Page No:

pp.306-310

Poem Title:

Malapsia. A Poem, Sacred to the Memory Of the Right Honourable the Lady Malpas.

Attribution:

By the Same..

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

By what authority do clergy

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

Attribution:

By Mr Butler, Author of Hudibras.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Simon Harcourt, Esq; Occasioned By his Fathering the Verses to the Lady Catharine Hyde.

Attribution:

By Dr Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Before Apollo's shrine I prayed

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

The Young Poet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I sir what you advised fulfil

Page No:

pp.313-317

Poem Title:

Harley. An Epistle from a Clergyman in Essex, to his Friend in London. 1722.

Attribution:

'from a Clergyman in Essex, to his Friend in London. 1722'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I who on rude unpolished reed

Page No:

pp.317-319

Poem Title:

On The Double Birth-Day Of The Countess of Oxford, and her Daughter, now Duchess of Portland, Feb. 11.

Attribution:

By the Hon. Mr Harley. now Earl of Oxford.

Attributed To:

Robert Harley

First Line:

Ladies to you with pleasure we submit

Page No:

pp.319-320

Poem Title:

Prologue, For Delia's Play,

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What all our sex in one sad hour undone

Page No:

pp.321-322

Poem Title:

To Delia On her Play.

Attribution:

'written by the Right Honourable John, Marquis of Normanby, Duke of Buckinghamshire, which, being omitted in his Lordship's Works, I shall here give the Reader, as a truly valuable Curiosity' [footnote attribution on p.320].

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

It was the fate of an unhappy swain

Page No:

pp.322-325

Poem Title:

Amaryllis. A Pastoral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three nymphs glad Damon's heart divide

Page No:

pp.325-326

Poem Title:

Written at East-Hamstead, To Sir William Trumbull's Three Nieces.

Attribution:

By Sir Henry Sheers.

Attributed To:

Henry [Henry Sheers] Sheres

First Line:

Thou tyrant god of love give over

Page No:

pp.326-329

Poem Title:

Loving One I Never Saw.

Attribution:

W. Walsh

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Phyllis if you will not agree

Page No:

pp.330-333

Poem Title:

The Antiquated Coquet,

Attribution:

'supposed to have been written by the Earl of Dorset [...] in the Reign of King Charles II. The MS is signed B. i.e. we presume Buckhurst', footnote attribution on p.333.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Farewell ye shady walks and fountains

Page No:

pp.333-335

Poem Title:

Dorinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If absence so much racks my charmer's heart

Page No:

pp.335-336

Poem Title:

To Leonora.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cease Leonora cease to mourn

Page No:

p.336

Poem Title:

To Leonora, Encore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While mad Ophelia we lament

Page No:

p.337

Poem Title:

On A Pretty Mad-Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The circling months begin this day

Page No:

pp.338-339

Poem Title:

The New-Year's Gift To Phyllis.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What a tedious day is past

Page No:

p.338

Poem Title:

Absence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For God's sake nay dear sir

Page No:

pp.339-340

Poem Title:

Miss Coy, A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jove once resolved the females to degrade

Page No:

p.340

Poem Title:

On Snuff.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You need not thus so often pray

Page No:

p.340

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I see the fetters I am doomed to wear

Page No:

pp.341-344

Poem Title:

The Fourth Elegy Of The Second Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lay not the pain so near your heart

Page No:

p.341

Poem Title:

To A Friend who had a Pain in his Side.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not that I may in worldly wealth abound

Page No:

pp.344-346

Poem Title:

The Third Elegy Of The Third Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No woman ever shall draw me from your arms

Page No:

pp.346-348

Poem Title:

The Twelfth Elegy. Of The Fourth Book of Tibullus. To His Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe since you a handsome woman are

Page No:

pp.348-351

Poem Title:

Ovid's Amours, Elegy III, Book III. Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virgil and Horace equally divine

Page No:

p.351

Poem Title:

Written under Mr Prior's Picture,

Attribution:

By Mr Drift.

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

O dearest master father friend

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, On His Birth-Day, July 21.

Attribution:

'With these Verses, Mr Drift delivered to Mr Prior his Annual Accompt', footnote on p.352.

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

Wit sense and learning massacred of late

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

On a Report of Mr Prior's Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is Prior gone O would you once inspire

Page No:

pp.354-355

Poem Title:

On the Death of Matthew Prior, Esq; Of Down-Hall in Essex.

Attribution:

By a Neighbouring Clergyman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To view this solemn scene this pomp of woe

Page No:

p.356

Poem Title:

On Seeing Mr Prior's Funeral. In Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

Adrian Drift

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift