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The Works of Capt. Alex. Radcliffe

In one Volume ... The Third Edition Augmented [by Alexander Radcliffe]

Radcliffe, Alexander (fl. 1669-1696)

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Ovid Travestie, A BURLESQUE UPON Ovids Epistles.

THE RAMBLE: AN ANTI-HEROICK POEM.

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POEMS.

Several Late SONGS Burlesqu'd or Varied.

As Amoret and Phyllis sate, &c.

Hail to the Myrtle Shades, &c.

The Poor Whore's Song, in allusion to the Begging Souldier, Good your Worship cast an Eye, &c.

Now Now the Fight's done, &c.

Tell me dearest pr'ythee do, Why thou wilt and wilt not too, &c.

Mr. Drydens Description of Night.

Thus Burlesqu'd.

Disdain, yet still I will love thee; Nothing, &c.

Now at last the Riddle is expounded, &c.

To the Tune of Per fas per nefas.

An Epitaph upon the Worthy and truly Vigilant, Sam. Micoe Esq

Upon Mr. Bennet, Procurer Extraordinary.

To a late Scotch Tune.

Upon a Bowl of Punch.

Upon the Pyramid.

Upon a Superannuated Couple lately married.

On the Protestants Flail.

The Narrative.

The fourteenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

The tenth Ode of the second Book of Horace.

Horace's well wishes to a scurvy Poet gone to Sea, Epode 10. in Mævium.

A Call to the Guard by a Drum.

Dr. Wild's Humble Thanks for His Majesty's gracious Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, Mar. 15. 72.

To the King.

These for his Old Friend Doctor Wild, Author of the Humble Thanks, &c.

[Ill Painters when they make a Sign]

THE RAMBLE.

The Lawyers Demurrer argued.

The SWORD's Farewell, upon the approach of a Michaelmas-Term.

Wrote in the Banquetting-House in Grayes-Inn-Walks.

Death and the old man.

Upon the Death of Edward Story, Esq; Master of the Pond, and Principal of Bernards-Inn.

Upon the Memory of Mr. John Sprat, late Steward of Grayes-Inn.

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Upon a Superannuated Couple lately married.

I

An Aged Couple have combin'd,
And stock of years together joyn'd,
To vie with Time 'tis now design'd.

II

Old Emblem with thy Sythe and Sand,
Thy canker'd power they do withstand,
Nor Fate it self shall here command.

III

In vain will all their Projects be;
Great Time, they must acknowledge thee,
When they endeavour Rem in Re.

IV

They represent (each tedeous night,
When they their feeble force unite)
Methusalem th' Hermaphrodite.

V

Of the grave Posset made with Sack
A holy Sacrament they make,
Which they with like devotion take.

VI

The dancing Guests like Lightning flew,
This venerable Brace mov'd too
As Cripples in the Jovial Crew.

VII

While Musick play'd this solemn Pair
Kept time to every sprightly Air,
With deep-mouth'd Cough and hoarse Catarth.

VIII

And now their wishes are complete,
With chaste desires in Bed they meet;
The Wedding seems a Winding sheet.

IX

There let us leave them, there they're safe,
The next remove is to their Grave;
Epithalamium proves their Epitaph.