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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.
 
[dedication]
 
SAPHO to PHAON
 
PHILLIS to DEMOPHOON
 
Hypermnestra to Linus.
 
HERMIONE to ORESTES
 
CANACE to MACAREUS:
 
ARIADNE to THESEUS,
 
LEANDER to HERO
 
HERO's Answer.
 
LAODAMIA to PROTESILAUS,
 
OENONE to PARIS.
 
PENELOPE to ULYSSES,
 
PHÆDRA to HIPPOLYTUS.
 
HYPSIPYLE to JASON.
 
PARIS to HELLEN.
 
HELLEN's Answer to PARIS
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THE RAMBLE: AN ANTI-HEROICK POEM.
 
[dedication]
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POEMS.
 
News from Hell.
 
As concerning Man.
 
Have a care what you do.
 
A Hard Case.
 
The Canary Mistress.
 
What are you mad?
 
Money's All.
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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.
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Death and the old man.
 
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Moral.
 
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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On the Protestants Flail.

In former days th' Invention was of Wracks,
To dislocate mens Joynts and break their Backs:
But this Protestant Flail of a severer sort is,
For Lignum-vitæ here proves Lignum mortis.
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