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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown

Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

Volume 1.

THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE WOKRS OF Mr. THO. BROWN. Containing LETTERS FROM THE Dead to the Living, And from the Living to the Dead. Both Serious and Comical.

THE Third Volume OF THE WORKS OF Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse.

THE Fourth and Last Volume OF THE WORKS OF Mr. THO. BROWN. CONTAINING

An Elegy on that most Orthodox, and Pains-taking Divine, Mr. Samuel Smith, Ordinary of Newgate, who dy'd of a Quinsey, on St. Bartholomew's Day, the 24th of August, 1698.

An Epitaph upon that profound and learned Casuist, the late Ordinary of Newgate.

An Elegy in Memory of the Gallant Viscount Dundee, who was killed by a random Shot, after he had won the Battle at Gillecrankey. Writ by Mr. Brown, at the Request of Dr. Griffith and Mr. Burges.

The Mourning Poet: Or, The unknown Comforts of Imprisonment, written in the Year, 1703. and Calculated for the Meridian of the three populous Universities of the Queen's Bench, the Marshalsea, and the Fleet; but may indifferenly serve any Prison in the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed.

To my Friend Mr. Playford; on the Publication of his second Book of Pills.

Upon the Encampment at Hounslow-Heath.

Upon the setting up of the Statue of Queen Elizabeth, of ever blessed Memory, in the Royal Exchange London.

In Praise of the Bottle. A Song.

The Rover. A Song.

The Campaign. A Song.

The Libertine. A Song.

A Catch.

A Match for the Devil. In Imitation of M. Rabelais.

The Whet.

Song.

On Sternhold and Hopkins, and the New Version of David's Psalms.

A Translation of Lesbia, Mi dicit semper male. Out of Catullus.

A Song in Ridicule of a famous Musician, who was caught serenading his Mistress with his Base-Viol, in a very frosty Night.

The Good Fellow.

Commendatory Verses on the Author of the two Arthurs, and the Satyr against Wit. By several Hands, and collected by Mr. Brown.

A short and true History of the Author of the Satyr against Wit.

Upon the Author of the Satyr against Wit.

To that incomparable Panegyrist, the Author of the Satyr upon Wit.

The Quack corrected; or, Advice to the Knight of the Ill favour'd Muse.

To the merry Poet after at Sadler's-Hall in Cheapside.

An equal Match; or, a drawn Battle.

To the Mirrour of British Knighthood, the worthy Author of the Satyr against Wit: Occasion'd by the Hemistick, Pag. 8.

To the Cheapside Kt. on his Satyr against Wit.

To the indefatigable Rhimer.

A modest Request to the Poetical Knight.

Wholesome Advice to a City Knight, over-run with Rhimes and Hypocrisie: Occasion'd by his Satyr against Wit.

To a thrice illustrious Quack, Pedant, and Bard, on his incomparable Poem, call'd, A Satyr against Wit.

To Sir R**** Bl****re, on the two Arthurs being condemn'd to be hang'd.

A Tale.

Upon the Character of Codron, as 'tis drawn by the bungling Knight, in his Satyr against Wit.

An Epigram on Job, travested by the City Bard.

To the Adventurous Knight of Cheapside, upon his Satyr against Wit.

To the canting Author of the Satyr against Wit.

Friendly Advice to Dr. Bl---

To Dr. Garth, on the fourth Edition of his Incomparable Poem, The Dispensary; occasion'd by some Lines in the Satyr against Wit.

To a Famous Doctor and Poet at Sadlers-hall.

To the Cheapside Quack; occasion'd by this Verse in the Satyr against Wit.

To that most incomparable Bard and Quack, the Author of the Satyr against Wit.

A merry Ballad on the City Bard.

On the Treatment of the Modern Drama. By Mr. Kn*** of Magd. Coll.

On Dr. Lower, who was observed to be grown good-natur'd a little before his Death. By another hand.

To his Cruel Mistress. Out of French.

An Ode upon a Kiss. Out of French.

A Translation.

On the Death of Dr. Kirleus.

An Epitaph on Dr. Kirleus of Grays-Inn-Lane, occasion'd by his Friends reporting him only gone into the Country.

The Fable of the Satyr, and the Traveller.

A Dialogue betwixt the New Lotteries, and the Royal-Oak.

An Impromptu to Shadwell's Memory by Dr. B---

Antenor's Speech in the Second Æneid, applied to the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience. In the Year 1687.

Prologue spoken before the University of Oxford, 1683.

Epilogue.

A Catch. By Mr. T. Brown.

A Panegyrick upon Col. George Walker.

To Mr. D'Urfey, upon his incomparable Ballads, call'd by him Lyrick Odes.

On Flowers in a Lady's Bosom.

The London Vintners Answer to Mr. Brown.

To Mr. Henry Purcel.

On Dr. Sherlock.

Upon the taking of the new Oaths.

Tom Brown having committed some great Fault at the University, the Dean of Christ Church threaten'd to expel him; but Tom, with a very submissive Epistle, begging Pardon, so pleas'd the Dean, that he was minded to forgive him, upon this Condition, viz. That he should translate this Epigram out of Marshal extempore.

[When Eve the Fruit had tasted]

[As moody Job, in shirtless Case]

A Supplement to Tho. Brown's Works.

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Upon the Author of the Satyr against Wit.

By Sir Charles Sidley.

A grave Physician us'd to write for Fees,
And spoil no Paper, but with Recipes,
Is now turn'd Poet, rails against all Wit,
Except that little found among the Great?
As if he thought true Wit and Sense were ty'd
To Men in Place, like Avarice or Pride.
But in their Praise so like a Quack he talks,
You'd swear he wanted for his Christmas-box.
With Mangl'd Names, old Stories he pollutes,
And to the present Time, past Actions suits.
Amaz'd we find, in ev'ry Page he writes,
Members of Parliament, with Arthur's Knights.
It is a common Pastime to write ill;
And Doctor, with the rest, e'en take thy fill.
Thy Satyr's harmless; 'tis thy Prose that kills,
When thou prescrib'st thy Potions, and thy Pills.