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A collection of poems on Several Occasions

Publish'd in the Craftsman. By Caleb D'Anvers of Gray's Inn, Esq [i.e. Nicholas Amhurst]

Amhurst, N. (1697-1742)

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To His Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, ON HIS Extraordinary Embassy to HOLLAND.

The Pacification.

To a LADY, Who had YELLOW HAIR.

TO Miss Polly Peachum A TOWN PASTORAL. Written in Imitation of the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil.

CRAMBO-SATYRICON: Or, A Learned, Poetical PARAPHRASE ON THE Christ-Cross-Row.

THE INSCRIPTION, Which was lately found on a Large MARBLE PILLAR Amongst some RUINS at WHITEHALL.

POLLY PEACHUM:

A PROJECT For MANNING His Majesy's ROYAL NAVY.

EPIGRAM.

AN EPIGRAM ON A Late DEBATE in the H--- of C--- Concerning the NATIONAL DEBT.

TO Her ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Princess AMELIA, AT BATH.

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WAXY: OR, VERSES upon a Young Lady's BIRTH-DAY.

TO WAXY.

THE Norfolk LANTHORN. A New BALLAD.

THE PROGRESS OF PATRIOTISM. A TALE.

A SEQUEL TO THE FABLE OF THE Oak and the Dunghill.

An Excellent NEW BALLAD, CALLED, A Bob for the C***t.

Truth and Falshood. A FABLE.

A PANEGYRICK ON Cardinal W---

TO A Certain GENTLEMAN Who always takes the Name of Cardinal WOLSEY To HIMSELF.

AN EPIGRAM.

THE HONEST JURY, OR, CALEB Triumphant.

To Caleb D'Anvers, Esq;

LATIN VERSES inscribed to the Glory of a certain great Man, at the Bottom of an emblematical Device.

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AN EPIGRAM.

[Of the Remoræ lately much hath been said]

Of the Remoræ lately much hath been said,
And how they retard our Fleet at Spithead;
But, if I mistake not, it is not confin'd
By the Strength of those Fish, but a Cardinal Wind.