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Satires and miscellaneous poetry and prose

Edited by Renbe Lamar
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)

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FORMAL SATIRES
  
THE ELEPHANT IN THE MOON
  
THE ELEPHANT IN THE MOON
  
SATYR UPON THE ROYAL SOCIETY
  
SATYR UPON THE WEAKNESS AND MISERY OF MAN
  
SATYR UPON THE LICENTIOUS AGE OF CHARLES THE 2D
  
SATYR UPON GAMING
  
SATYR UPON OUR RIDICULOUS IMITATION OF THE FRENCH
  
SATYR UPON DRUNKENNESS
  
SATYR UPON MARRIAGE
  
UPON CRITICS Who judge of MODERN PLAYS Precisely by the RULES of the ANTIENTS
  
SATYR UPON PLAGIARIES
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SATYR UPON THE IMPERFECTION AND ABUSE OF HUMAN LEARNING
 1. 
PART 1ST
 2. 
FRAGMENTS of an intended SECOND PART of the foregoing SATYR
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PINDARIC ODES
  
UPON AN HYPOCRITICAL NONCONFORMIST
  
UPON MODERN CRITICS
  
TO THE HAPPY MEMORY Of the most Renown'd DU-VAL
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BALLADS
  
A BALLAD
  
A BALLAD
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MOCK ENCOMIUMS
  
To the Honourable EDWARD HOWARD, Esq; Upon his incomparable POEM of the BRITISH PRINCES
  
A PALINODIE To the Honourable EDWARD HOWARD, Esq; Upon his incomparable BRITISH PRINCES
  
A PANEGYRIC UPON Sir JOHN DENHAM'S Recovery from his Madness
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TRANSLATIONS
  
BOILEAU SATYR on RHYME
  
OVID CYDIPPE HER ANSWER TO ACONTIUS
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
  
REPARTEES between CAT and PUSS at a CATERWALLING
  
UPON PHILIP NYE'S THANKSGIVING BEARD
  
PROLOGUE TO THE QUEEN OF ARRAGON,
  
EPILOGUE Upon the same. To the DUTCHESS.
  
AN EPISTLE to a FRIEND
  
TO THOMAS ------
  
TRIPLETS UPON AVARICE
  
EPIGRAM ON A CLUB of SOTS
  
DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND
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POETICAL THESAURUS
  
WIT AND FOLLY
  
LEARNING
  
ARTS AND SCIENCES
  
PÆDANTS
  
VIRTUOSO
  
ANTIQUITY
  
HISTORY
  
ABSURDITIES
  
CUSTOME
  
OPINION
  
NONSENSE
  
TRUTH
  
PHYSIQUE
  
NATURE
  
CHYMISTRY
  
MAGIQUE
  
GEOMANCY
  
ASTROLOGY
  
LOVE
  
MARRIAGE
  
WOMEN
  
LUST
  
HONOR
  
THE WORLD
  
VULGARITY
  
MORALITY
  
AVARICE
  
FORTUNE
  
WEALTH
  
WRITERS
  
POETRY
  
GOVERNMENT
  
LAW
  
REBELLION
  
TREACHERY
  
INJUSTICE
  
MODERN WAR
  
COWARDISE
  
HOPE
  
FEARE
  
THEFT
  
RELIGION
  
ZEAL
  
CRUELTY
  
CONSCIENCE
  
FANATIQUES
  
PRELATES
  
POPERY
  
GLUTTONY
  
TIME
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APPENDIX
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TENTATIVE LINES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
  
Wit and Folly
  
Pride
  
Learning
  
Arts and Sciences
  
Pædants
  
Virtuoso
  
Antiquity
  
History
  
Absurdities
  
Custome
  
Opinion
  
Folly
  
Nonsense
  
Truth
  
Physique
  
Nature
  
Chymistry
  
Magique
  
Astrology
  
Love
  
Marriage
  
Women
  
Lust
  
Honor
  
The World
  
Vulgarity
  
Morality
  
Avarice
  
Fortune
  
Wealth
  
Vice
  
Poetry
  
Prologue
  
Government
  
Law
  
Treachery
  
Injustice
  
War
  
Hope
  
Feare
  
Courage
  
Religion
  
Zeal
  
Cruelty
  
Conscience
  
Prelates
  
Popery
  
Trade
  
Friendship
  
Infancy
  
Musique
  
Stinke
  
Sidrophel
  
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Fortune

Our Fortunes now are such, Remorse
Can never mend but make it worse,
And 'tis Below the worst of Fooling
To think to Help it by Condoling,
To spend our little Time and thoughts
In Quarreling and finding Faults:
For None are wretcheder undon
Then those Condemnd to wayl and mone.
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