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Poems on Affairs of State

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I.

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

1.

[The First Part.]

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2.

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

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Miscellany POEMS, &c.

The Man of HONOUR.

The Man of no Honour.

The humble Address of your Majesty's Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Protestant dissenting Rhymers, with the rest of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferiour Versifiers and Sonnetteers of Your Majesty's Ancient Corporation of Parnassus.

The Vision of Toleration.

On the Bishops Confinement.

The Last Will and Testament of Father Peters.

The Pope's WISH.

The Protestant Litany.

Advice to the Prince of Orange, and the Packet-Boat returned.

The Hieroglyphick.

To the ten Dispensing Judges.

Religious Relicks:

Private Occurrences:

A Stanza lately put upon Tyburn.

Harry Care's last Will and Testament.

A new Catch in praise of the Reverend Bishops.

A New Song of the Mayor being tossed in a Blanket, in the North.

To the Haters of Popery,

Protestantism Reviv'd:

A View of the Religion of the Town: or a Sunday Mornings Ramble.

The Papists Exaltation, on His Highness the Prince of Orange, His Arrival in London.

The Explanation.

A New Song on the Prince and Princess of Orange.

Tyrconnel's distracted Readings upon his Irish Forces in England.

A New Litany for the Holy Time of LENT.

The States-Man's Almanack:

The State-Holder:

An Epistle to Mr. Dryden.

A Sale of Old State Houshold-Stuff.

The Paradox on the Confinement of the Lords.

Over the Lord D***rs Door.

Over the Lord S---s Door.

To the Speaking-Head.

A Dialogue between a Loyal Addressor, and a Blunt Whiggish Clown.

A new Song of the misfortunes of an Old Whore and her Brats.

A new Song of an Orange.

A New Song on the Calling of a Feee Parliament,

The Second part of Lilli—li burlero Bullen a-la.

The Chancellour turn'd Tarpaulin.

Stafford's Ghost,

On the D---ss of P---th's Picture,

Essay written over his Door upon an Institution and Induction.

A Heroick Scene.

The True Way to Honour.

A Match, between the keen Rasor, and the dull Ax,

A New Litany in the Year, 1684.

The Fable of the Pot and Kettle,

Epitaph on Harry Care.

A New Way to Honour.

A Lenten Prologue refus'd by the Players,

Dangerfield's Ghost to J---

The Troop at Beaconsfield and their March.

A true and full Account of a late Conference between the wonderful Speaking-Head and Father Pulton,

A new Address to Mr. Bays, on his late Conversion to the Church of Rome.

A Short Letany.

Popish Politicks Unmaskt.

On Easter-day 87. this was found fixed on the King's Chappel Door.

Vpon K. J. Pistolling a Mastiff Dog at Banbury, in his last Progress.

To the Observator.

Old Gammer Cook.

The Drinking Song.

A Dialogue between Father Petre and the Devil.

The Metamorphosis.

Cæsar's Ghost.

The Fourth Satyr of Boileau to W. K.

A Cawdle for a Sick Jesuit.

A Congratulatory Poem on his Highness the Prince of Orange, his coming into England.

A Congratulatory Poem to the most Illustrious Queen Mary, upon her Arrival in England.

Ode on the Anniversary of the King's Birth.

An Ode on the Queens Birth-Day, Sang before their Majesties at Whitehal.

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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Now weigh them both, and tell me, if you can,
VVhich of the two seems the most prudent Man:
The Gamester swears both shou'd in Bethlem be,
That Fortune-monger, maddest of the three,
VVhose Life, whose Soul, whose very Heav'n is Play,
At which the Bubble throws them all away;
Who every moment waits his Destiny
From the uncertain running of a Die;
And, if he chance to lose, then how he stares!
Then how the Fury, with his bristled Hairs
Curses his Fate! Earth, hell, and Heaven defies,
And with Oaths heap'd on Oaths, he storms the Skies.