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Poems upon several occasions

Duke, Richard (1659?-1711)

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POEMS UPON Several Occasions. BY Mr. RICHARD DUKE.

THE FIFTH ELEGY OF THE First Book of OVID.

THE FOURTH ODE OF THE Second Book of HORACE.

THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE Second Book of Horace.

HORACE and LYDIA.

The CYCLOPS. Theocritus Idyll. XI.

Spoken to the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.

To the Unknown AUTHOR OF Absalom and Achitophel.

AN EPITHALAMIUM Upon the MARRIAGE of Capt. William Bedloe.

On the Marriage of George Prince of Denmark, AND THE LADY ANNE.

On the DEATH of King CHARLES the Second. And the Inauguration of King JAMES the Second.

To the People of England;

TO Mr. CREECH ON HIS Translation of Lucretius.

Virgil's Fifth Eclogue. DAPHNIS.

TO Mr. WALLER, UPON THE Copy of Verses made by himself on the last Copy in his Book.

To his FRIEND Mr. HENRY DICKINSON, ON HIS Translation of Father Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament .

TO Mr. DRYDEN, On his PLAY, call'd, Troilus and Cressida; Or, Truth found too Late.

PARIS to HELENA.

The EPISTLE of Acontius to Cydippe.

THE FOURTH SATYR OF JUVENAL.

Damon and Alexis.

To some Disbanded Officers upon the late Vote of the House of Commons.

To a R. Catholick upon Marriage.

An Imperfect SPEECH.

EPISTLE FROM Mr. OTWAY to Mr. DUKE.

ANSWER TO THE Foregoing EPISTLE.

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To a R. Catholick upon Marriage.

Censure and Penances, Excommunication,
Are Bug-bear Words to fright a biggot Nation;
But 'tis the Church's more substantial Curse,
To damn us all, for better and for worse.
Falsely your Church seven Sacraments does frame,
Penance and Matrimony are the same.