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State Tracts

Containing Many Necessary Observations and Reflections on the State of our Affairs at Home and Abroad; With some Secret Memoirs. By the Author of the Examiner [i.e. William Oldisworth]

Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

VOL. I.

Coffee-House Chat; BY WAY OF DIALOGUE

Job's Trial under the Persecutions of Satan.

VOLPONE, OR THE FOX.

A Poetical ESSAY ON THE Last Sea-fight with the French ,

THE Royal PROPHETESS.

Doctor HANNES Dissected IN A Familiar Epistle by way of Nosce Teipsum.

Upon the Third Verse of the Fifth Chapter of Eccles. For a Dream cometh thro' the Multitude of Business: And the following Lines of Petronius.

An Ode composed for St. Luke's Day, 1712. in praise of Painting.

ON TUNBRIDGE-WELLS, A LAMPOON.

On a FRIEND.

On the Cold Bath at Oldcastles.

Hor. Ode xiv. O navis, referent in mare te novi Fluctus.

The Oxford Almanack explain'd, 1711.

SONGS.

On a Piece of the Royal Oak sent to a Gentleman as a Tobacco-stopper.

In Imitation of Sir John Sucklin.

To the eternal Fame of that wonderful Politician, indefatigable S---esman, faithful M---er, incomparable Patriot, loyal Subject, facetious Gentleman, profound Lawyer, and undaunted Stickler for the non-forgiving Party, Harlequin le Grand; once the first in the H---se, tho' the last in the L---st; who had the Honour to climb without Merit, and to fall without Pity; the Mirror of all Scribes, the Punisher of Wit, the Patron of D. D'F---, and the President of the Pi---ry.

To the eternal Shame of Low-Ch---h, and the lasting Reproach to Mo---on, Segnior Harlequin Occasi, the modern Turn-coat.

To my generous Friends, and worthy Patriot, Harlequin le Grand. The humble Memorial of your little Scribler, Spy, Champion, Closet-Counsellor, and Poet, D---l D'F---e.

To the late Right H---ble: An Epigram. Written by an Infant little Scribler, whose Father has been ruin'd by the severe Conduct, and over-sharp Management of Harlequin le Grand.

THE INSECT WAR: OR, A BATTLE BETWEEN The Hornets, the Wasps, the Catterpillars, and the Butter-Flies.

On the UNION A POEM

THE RETIREMENT.

A POEM

On the BATTLE Of OUDENARD.

THE EIGHTH ECCLOGUE of VIRGIL

The Ninth Ecclogue of VIRGIL.

Britain's Palladium;

THE British Court:

THE CIRCUS: OR, British Olympicks.

St. James's Park: A SATYR.

THE Singing-Birds Address TO THE EAGLE, For Relief against the Tyranny of the Birds of Prey:

LIBERTY AND PROPERTY.

THE SPLITTER OF FREE-HOLDS.

A SEARCH AFTER RELIGION.

The Burning of the Ch--- of En---d MEMORIAL.

THE City Beauties, &c.

THE Gothick HERO.

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On the Cold Bath at Oldcastles.

Hail sacred Spring! Thou ever-living Stream!
Ears to the Deaf, Supporters to the Lame
Where fair Hygienia ev'ry Morn attends
And with kind Waves her gentle Succour lends,

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While in the Christal Fountain we behold
The trembling Limbs, Enervate, Pale and Cold;
A Rosy Hue she on the Face bestows,
And Nature in the chilling Fluid glows,
The Eyes shoot Fire, first kindled in the Brain,
As beds of Lime smoke after show'rs of Rain;
The fiery Particles concentred there
Break ope' their Prison Doors and rage in Air:
Hail then, thou pow'rful Goddess that presides,
O'er these cold Baths as Neptune o'er his Tides;
Receive what Tribute a poor Muse can pay
For Health that makes the Senses Brisk and Gay,
The fairest Off-spring of the heavenly Ray.