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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.

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1.

[The First Part.]

A Panegyrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories.

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

Directions to a Painter.

Directions to a Painter.

To the KING.

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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To the KING.

By Sir JOHN DENHAM.

Great Prince! and so much Greater as more VVise;
Sweet as our Life, and dearer than our Eyes,
VVhat Servants will conceal, and Councels spare
To tell, the Painter and the Poet dare.
And the assistance of an Heavenly Muse
And Pencil represent the Crimes abstruse.
Here needs no Fleet, no Sword, no Forreign Foe;
Only let Vice be damn'd, and Justice flow.

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Shake but, like Jove, thy Locks divine, and frown,
Thy Scepter will suffice to guard thy Crown.
Hark to Cassandra's Song, e're fate destroy
By thine lowd Navy's wooden Horse, thy Troy.
As our Apollo, from the Tumults wave,
And Gentle Calms, though but in Oars, will save,
So Philomel her sad Embroidery strung,
And vocal Silks tun'd with her Needles Tongue.
The Pictures dumb in Colours loud reveal'd
The Tragedies at Court so long conceal'd;
But when restor'd to voice inclos'd with wings
To Woods and Groves what once the Painter sings.