The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ::

The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

Hanbury Williams, Charles (1708-1759)

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VOL. I.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE

AN ODE TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLE,

ARGYLE'S DECAMPMENT,

A GRUB UPON BUB

(Written in December 1741.)

GILES EARLE (OF MARLBOROUGH-STREET); AND GEO. BUBB DODDINGTON, Esqrs.

PETER AND MY LORD QUIDAM:

A Political Eclogue

ISABELLA;

AN ODE TO THE HONOURABLE HENRY FOX,

AN ODE, ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF “THE CONQUER'D DUCHESS:”

AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STEPHEN POYNTZ, ESQ.

AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF MATZEL, A FAVOURITE BULL-FINCH:

A BALLAD: IN IMITATION OF MARTIAL, Lib. 6, Ep. 34.

AN ODE ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY,

A SONG: ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY,

ON THE DEATH OF LADY ABERGAVENNY:

ON LADY ABERGAVENNY:

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS TO SIR HANS SLOANE,

(Written in February 1739-40.)

THE COUNTRY GIRL; AN ODE:

A NEW ODE

AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF BATH

THE STATESMAN.

A NEW ODE.

AN ODE, FROM THE EARL OF BATH TO AMBITION.

THE HEROES:

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS TO EDWARD HUSSEY, ESQ.

An Epigram.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EARL OF BATH AND HIS COUNTESS.

TO THE EARL OF BATH;

AN ODE TO THE HON. PHILIP YORKE:

THE CAPUCHIN:

AN ODE TO LORD LIMERICK

AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF BATH:

TO THE EARL OF BATH,

AN ODE FROM THE EARL OF BATH.

A NEWER ODE THAN THE LAST.

[BUT Orford's self I've seen, whilst I have read]

BRITANNIA'S GHOST TO THE EARL OF BATH.

AN ODE FROM FAME TO THE EARL OF BATH.

THE PATRIOT PARROT:

AN EPITAPH ON THE POLITICAL MEMORY OF WILLIAM PULTNEY, EARL OF BATH;

A BALLAD: IN IMITATION OF “WILLIAM AND MARGARET,”

ON THE ARRIVAL OF GENERAL OGLETHORPE.

HOR. LIB. II. ODE XVI.—Otium Divos, &c. IMITATED:

WYNDHAM AND PULTNEY;

TO MR. GARNIER AND MR. PEARCE OF BATH.

HOR. LIB. I. ODE XXX.—O Venus! Regina, Cnida Paphosq. &c.

A LAMENTABLE CASE.

A BALLAD:

ON THE PRINCES GOING TO ST. JAMES'S

HORACE, ODE XI. LIB. II.

ORPHEUS AND HECATE,

LADY DOROTHY BOYLE ENAMOURED WITH LORD EUSTON.

SONG IN COMUS.

SONG.

II.

VOL. II.

TO SIR THOMAS ROBINSON ON HIS BRINGING OVER WARD'S DROP IN 1731-2.

ON MRS. WOFFINGTON.

TO KITTY WALKER:

TO MRS. WOFFINGTON, 1740.

LOVELY PEGGY.

TO MRS. WOFFINGTON.

TO MRS. BINDON, AT BATH.

MRS. BINDON'S ANSWER.

SIR CHARLES'S REPLY.

TAR-WATER, A BALLAD: INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

ON CHARLES STANHOPE, ESQ. DRINKING TAR-WATER.

AN ODE TO SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS.

AN ODE TO SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS;

AN ODE TO LORD LINCOLN.

New Ballad.

A CONGRATULATORY ODE, MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE STATESMAN ON HIS TRAVELS.

AN ODE: INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE VISCOUNT LONSDALE;

A SIMILE: PRINTED IN GEOFFRY BROADBOTTOM'S JOURNAL;

TO THE REV. SAMUEL HILL, CANON OF WELLS, &c. &c.

A NEW BALLAD:

THE HIGHLANDERS FLIGHT;

AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY PELHAM, ESQ.

AN ODE TO MR. POPE, ON TWO LATE PROMOTIONS.

AN ODE HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS WINNINGTON, ESQ.

HOR. EPISTLE V. LIB. I. IMITATED AND INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS WINNINGTON, ESQ. FROM MR. HENRY HARRIS. COMMISSIONER OF THE WINE LICENCE:

An Epitaph ON THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS WINNINGTON, ESQ.

LINES OCCASIONED BY A LATE MOTION.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SAMUEL SANDYS, AND EDMUND WALLER, Esqrs.

An Epigram.

SANDYS AND JEKYLL;

HERVEY AND JEKYLL.

An Epistle TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY FOX.

On the Earl of Islay altering his Gardens at Whitton, near Hounslow-Heath.

A DUCHESS'S GHOST TO ORATOR HANOVER PITT.

THE UNEMBARRASS'D COUNTENANCE,

SHORT VERSES, IN IMITATION OF LONG VERSES:

THE OLD COACHMAN;

VERSES

SQUIRE SANDYS'S BUDGET OPEN'D, OR DRINK AND BE D---D;

THE INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE RIGHT HON. HENRY PELHAM AND WILLIAM, EARL OF BATH.

ON THE COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH MAKING THE CAMPAIGN.

A Poetical Epistle, FROM A GREAT MAN IN THE ARMY, AFTER THE BATTLE OF DETTINGEN.

BRITANNIA'S LAMENTATION AND PETITION.

PUBLII OVIDII NASONIS AMORUM

THE SEQUEL: CONTAINING WHAT WAS OMITTED IN THE TRIUMVIRADE, OR BROAD-BOTTOMRY, AT THE ASTERISKS.

An Epigram, ON QUIN, THE COMEDIAN.

An Epigram ON LORD ANSON AND HIS LADY.

III.

VOL. III.

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TAR-WATER, A BALLAD: INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

SINCE good Master Prior,
The Tar-water 'squire,
Without being counted to blame,
Vulgar patrons hath scorn'd,
And his treatise adorn'd
With the lustre of Chesterfield's name;

Great Mecænas of arts!
And all men of parts,
(Tho' they're not much the growth of the time)
I hope 'twill be meet
To lay at your feet
The same lofty subject in rhyme.

Then come, let us sing!
Death, a fig for thy sting!
I think we shall serve thee a trick;
For the Bishop of Cloyne
Hast at last laid a mine,
That will blow up both thee and old Nick.

Have but faith in his treatise,
Tho' you've stone, diabetes,
Gout, or fever, tar-water's specific;
If you're costive, 'twill work;
If you purge, 'tis a cork;
And, if old, it will make you prolific.

All ye fair ones, who lie sick,
Leave off doctors and physic,
Tar-water will cure all your ails;
Have you rheums or defluctions,
Or whims, or obstructions,
It will set right your heads and your tails.

See, each tall slender maid
Now lifts up her head,
Like a beautiful fir on the mountain!
While, salubrious, flow,
From a fissure below,
The streams of a turpentine fountain.

Each Nymph from afar,
Is so scented with tar,
That unless they're permitted to---,
All the Devils in hell
(So alike is the smell)
Can't know a --- from a cart wheel.

Great physician of state!
(Tho' call'd in so late
To a truly well-meant consultation)
In this fever of war,
Like the spirit of tar,
Thy skill must preserve this poor nation.

Tho' now quite exhausted,
Her vitals all wasted,
She's as meagre, and weak as a lath;
Yet we hope that thy art
Will recover each part,
Without the assistance of Bath.

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TAR-WATER, A BALLAD: INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.