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The Poems of Charles Sackville

Sixth Earl of Dorset: Edited by Brice Harris
Dorset, Charles Sackville (1638?-1706)

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I. Literary Matters
  
To Sir Thomas St. Serfe: on the Printing his Play Call'd “Tarugo's Wiles”
  
To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called “The British Princes”
  
Epilogue to “Every Man in his Humour”
  
Epilogue to “Tartuffe”
  
On Mr. Edward Howard upon his “New Utopia”
  
To Mr. Bays
  
The Duel
  
A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd “The Female Nine”
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II. Old Affected Court Ladies
  
The Antiquated Coquette
  
On the Countess Dowager of Manchester
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Four Poems on the Countess of Dorchester
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III. State Affairs
  
Catch
  
On the Young Statesmen
  
My Opinion
  
On the Statue in the Privy Garden
  
On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination
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IV. Advice to Lovers
  
A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea
  
To Phyllis
  
Knotting
  
Song
  
A Song to Chloris, from the Blind Archer
  
The Advice
  
A Song
  
A Song
  
Advice to Lovers
  
The Advice
  
The Fire of Love
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V. Friends and Acquaintances
  
On Dolly Chamberlain A Sempstress in the New Exchange
  
A Song on Black Bess
  
Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy
  
On the Young Heiress of Lincoln's Inn Fields
  
Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council
  
On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws
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VI. Court and Town
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Four Letters in Verse between Dorset and Etherege
  
A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege
  
Mr. Etherege's Answer
  
Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege
  
Mr. Etherege's Answer
  
The Duel of the Crabs
  
Colon
  
A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies
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VII. Translation and Paraphrase
  
Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French
  
The Innocent Conjugates or The Maiden Bridegroom and Virgin Bride
  
A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress

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On Dolly Chamberlain A Sempstress in the New Exchange

Dolly's beauty and art
Have so hemm'd in my heart
That I cannot resist the charm:
In revenge I will stitch
Up the hole next her breech
With a needle as long as my arm.
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