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I.

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

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1.

[The First Part.]

A Panegyrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories.

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Three POEMS on the Death of the late Protector, Oliver Cromwell.

Heroick Stanza's, on the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell:

To the happy Memory of the late Usurper. Oliver Cromwell.

Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell ensuing the same,

Directions to a Painter.

Directions to a Painter.

Direstions to a Painter.

Directions to a Painter.

The last Instructions to a Painter, About the Dutch Wars 1667.

The Loyal Scot.

Britannia and Raleigh.

Advice to a Painter,

Nostradamus's Prophecy.

Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Ghost.

An Historical Poem by A Marvell Esq;.

Hodges Vision, from the Monument.

A Dialogue Between two Horses.

On the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman, presenting the late King and Duke of York each with a Copy of their Freedoms,

On Blood's Stealing the Crown.

Farther Instructions to a Painter,

Oceana. & Britannia.

On his Excellent Friend Mr. Anth. Marvell,

An Epitaph on the Lord Fairfax.

An Essay upon the Earl of Shaftsbury's Death.

A Satyr in Answer to a Friend.

A Character of the English.

Cullen with his Flock of Misses,

Sir Tho. Armstrong's Ghost.

The Royal Game:

On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670–1.

The History of Insipids;

ROCHESTER's Farewell, 1680.

Marvil's Ghost.

The true Englishman,

On the Young Statesmen.

Portsmouth's Looking-Glass.

The Impartial Trimmer.

Brajazet to Gloriana,

On King CHARLES, by the Earl of Rochester,

Cato's Answer to Libanius,

The Lord Lucas's Ghost, 1687.

The Brazen Head.

Upon the Execrable Murther of the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex.

An Essay upon Satyr

Upon an undeserving and ungratefull Mistress, whom he could not help loving.

A Satyr on the modern Translators.

The Parliament House to be Lett,

Advice to Apollo,

The Duel of the Crabs

Instructions to his Mistress how to behave her self at Supper with her Husband,

The Session of the Poets,

On the Prince's going to England, with an Army to Restore the Government,

On his Royall Highness's Voyage beyond Sea.

A New Song of the Times.

The Battle-Royall:

An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hanged in Chains for Murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham

An Answer to Mr. Waller's Poem on Oliver's Death; called the Storm

2.

The Second Part. Written during the Reign of K. James the II. against Popery and Slavery, and his Arbitrary Proceedings.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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Chett, that Scundrel, he whom Nature made
An arrant Fool, although a Rogue by Trade,
Which he industriously improv'd so well,
He does in nicest Villany excel,
And from the Trumpet rais'd the Colonel;
Yet lives a double Scandal in his Race,
His Morals are as odious as his Face:
Tho Knave and Coward in his Front be writ,
He has one Vertue recommends him yet;
A Passive Valour that can kicking bear,
A Caution that secur'd him in his Fear
Behind the Canon in the Western War.
And farther to this Honour has Pretence,
Can cheat his Men with matchless Impudence:
But that's the general Cry, While no bold Tongue
Is found to tell Augustus of their wrong.