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Poems on Affairs of State

I.

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

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II.

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

THE FOREIGNERS.

The True-born Englishman:

ÆSOP at Tunbridge;

Several other Fables on State-Affairs.

A Copy of Verses written in the Year 1623.

Another Copy of Verses by the same Author, written in 1628.

A Panegyrick upon Oates.

[In Parem imperium habet Par]

The last Will and Testament of Anthony K. of Poland.

Rochester's Ghost addressing it self to the Secretary of the Muses.

A Consolatory Epistle to Julian in his Confinement.

A Satyr upon the Poets, being a Translation out of the 7th Satyr of Juvenal.

Letter to C---W.

The Female Laureat.

Advice to the Painter,

The Lover's Session.

Doctor Wild's Ghost, on his Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience.

The Renegado Poet.

The Tribe of Levi.

Some Verses sent by a Friend to one who twice ventur'd his Carcase in Marriage.

The Encouragement

[In all Humility we crave]

A Satyr by the Lord Rochester, which King Charles took out of his Pocket.

An Epitaph upon a Stumbling-Horse.

Ad Populum Phaleræ:

A Satyr written when the K--- went to Flanders, and left nine Lords Justices.

A Prophecy which hath been in a Manuscript in the Lord Powis's Family above sixty Years.

An Epitaph upon the E. of Ro---ster's being dismist from the Treasury in 1687,

King James to himself,

On the Duke of Bucks,

Prologue for Sir John Falstaff, rising slowly to soft Musick.

To the Lords assembled in Council; The Petition of Tho. Brown.

To Mr. Dryden, upon his declaring himself a Roman Catholick.

Upon Mr. Neal's projecting new Taxes.

Doctor Hannes Dissected, in a Familiar Epistle, by way of Nosce Teipsum.

A Poem on the Death of his Highness the Duke of Gloucester.

A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.

A Melancholy Theme on a dismal Disaster, In a Grubstreet Poem, by Grubstreet Poetaster.

A Comparison betwixt Lewis XIV. and Prince Eugene.

An Epitaph on the Late King of Spain.

On Squire Neal's Projects.

On some Votes against the Lord S.

The Confederates:

A Dialogue between Poet Motteux and Patron Henningham.

A Letter from J. P. to Colonel H. occasion'd by the Colonel's two late Letters.

A Satyr upon the French King.

On Madam Mohun and Mr. Congreve's Sickness.

Engrav'd on a Medal of the French King's.

On Fortune,

A Song on the Taxes,

Regulus's Death by Carthage two VVays.

To King WILLIAM.

Martial. Lib 1. Epig. 58.

Cure for Green Sickness,

Found on the Church-Door at Whitehall, January 30. 1696.

Epitaph on King WILLIAM,

On the Lord Lovelace's coming to Oxford from Glocester Gaol in Decem. 1688.

On the Divorces by Parliament,

Some Verses found in the Ruins of the Privy Garden, which were carried to the Gentleman Usher, written in a Scroll of Parchment.

The Life and Actions of that Valiant Hero Robert Blake Esq;

THE Mock Mourners.

On the Descent of the Germans from the Alps to Verona, and their Ascent from the Aqueduct into Cremona.

A Prologue design'd for Tamerlane, but never spoke.

To the French King.

On King William.

The Ghost of K. C*****ll.

On Sir John Fenwick.

An Allusion to the 7th Epode of Horace,

The House of NASSAU.

Reformation of Manners,

The Play-House:

The British Muse:

On the Promoted Bishops.

A Ballad on the Confederates;

Answer to the Prophecy, As when the Knight, &c.

On the Exchequer Bills.

A Ballad on the Poll-Act.

On the Earl of Castlemain's Embassy to Rome in King James II. Reign.

On King William's Statue at Dublin in Memory of the Victory at the Boyne, July 1st, 1690.

On the Countess of Dor******r Mistress to King J***** II.

A Psalm sung the 30th of January, 1696. At the C****s* H***d Club.

An Answer to a Jacobite Panegyrick upon Sorrel.

On the Expedition to Cales under the D. of Ormond.

Several Copys of Verses on her Majesty's and the Prince's going to Oxford.

On the Duke of Ormond's Success at Vigo,

On the Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 12. 1702. for the Success of her Majesty and her Allies by Sea and Land.

On the Recovery of his Royal Highness the Prince, Lord High Admiral of England.

On the French Protestants extolling their Prince, notwithstanding his forcing them to abandon their Native Country.

On her Majesty's Birth-day, Feb. 6. 1702.

The Golden Age Restor'd.

The Fourth Pastoral of Virgil,

Advice to a Painter,

An Answer to the Earl of Rochester's Satyr against Man.

The Golden Age Revers'd.

The Golden Age, from the Fourth Eclog of Virgil, &c.

A Poem, in defence of the Church of England;

Quintus Arbelius to Charles Lord H---.

On King William the III.

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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On Fortune,

by the Duke of Buckingham.

Fortune made up of Toys and Impudence,
That common Jade that has not common Sense;
But fond of Business, insolently dares
Pretend to rule, yet spoil the World's Affairs.
She fluttering up and down, her Favours throws
On the next Man, not minding what she does,
Nor why nor whom she helps or injures knows.
Sometimes she smiles, then like a Fury raves,
And seldom truly loves but Fools and Knaves.
Let her love whom she please, I scorn to woo her,
While she stays with me I'll be civil to her.
But if she offers once to move her Wings,
I'll throw her back all her vain Gewgaw things;
And arm'd with Virtue will more glorious stand,
Than if the Bitch still bent at my Command:

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I'll marry Honesty, tho ne'er so poor,
Rather than follow such a dull blind Whore.