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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown

Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

Volume 1.

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Tho. Brown's Epitaph,

The Beauties, to Armida.

[Soteria Ormondiana] The same in English, upon the Recovery of the Duke of Ormond.

The beginning of the first Satire of Persius imitated.

A SATIRE against WOMAN.

A Satire on MARRIAGE.

A Satire upon the French King, on the Peace of Reswick.

Being committed for the foregoing Satire, he wrote the following Petition to the Lords in Council Assembled, by which he receiv'd his Enlargement from Prison.

A Satire upon an ignorant Quack, that murder'd a Friend's Child, and occasion'd the Mother, upon the News of it, to Miscarry.

An Inscription upon a Tobacco-Box.

To a Young Lady, who appeared frequently leaning out of her Chamber Window.

Upon a Lady's being disappointed by a young Scotch Lord.

The Temperate Epicure, written by that Celebrated Wit of France, Monsieur la Fountaine, when troubled with a Rheumatism.

An Epigram upon Sir R. B.

An EPIGRAM.

On a Blind Man in Love.

On the TAX upon SALT.

The Pleasures of LOVE.

Cupid turn'd Tinker.

The General LOVER.

A Tale from Bocas, or a Cure for Cuckoldom.

The Highlander, a Satire.

An Epigram, occasion'd by the News that Sir R--- Bl---re's Paraphrase upon Job was in the Press.

Upon the Knighting Sir R--- B---re, for his incomparable Poem call'd King Arthur.

Upon King Arthur, partly writ in the Doctor's Coach, and partly in a Coffee-House.

Upon seeing a Man light a Pipe of Tobacco in a Coffee-House with a Leaf of King Arthur.

Epigram, occasion'd by the Passage in the Satire against Wit, that reflects upon Mr. Tate, and ends thus: He's honest, and, as Wit comes in, will pay.

A Story of a Greek Chevalier, Predecessor in a direct Line to the British Knight.

To Elkanah Settle, the City-Poet.

To the Author of the Satire against Wit, upon concealing his Name.

On Job newly travestied by Sir R--- B---re.

To Sir R--- B---re, upon his unhappy Talent of Praising and Railing.

On Sir R--- B---re's Project to erect a Bank of Wit.

To Sir R--- B---re, on the two Wooden Horses before Sadlers-Hall.

Epigram upon King Arthur.

An Epitome of a Poem truly call'd, A Satire against Wit; done for the undeceiving of some Readers, who have mistaken the Panegyrick in that immortal Work for the Satire, and the Satire for the Panegyrick.

Epigram, Upon the Fortunate and Auspicious Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, of happy Memory, and our most Gracious Queen Ann.

To Mr. Dryden, on his Conversion.

Upon the Pensioners in the Parliament.

A Comical Panegyrick on that familiar Animal, by the Vulgar call'd a Louse: By Mr. Willis, of St. Mary-Hall, Oxon; with some Additions by Mr. Tho. Brown.

Upon the Anonymous Author of Legion's humble Address to the Lords.

To that most senseless Scoundrel, the Author of Legion's humble Address to the Lords, who wou'd persuade the People of England to leave the Commons, and depend upon the Lords.

A pleasant Dialogue beeween the Pillory and Daniel de Foe.

The last Observator: Or, The Devil in Mourning. A Dialogue between John Tutchin and his Countryman.

Advice to the Kentish Long-Tails, by the Wise Men of Gotham. In answer to their late sawcy Petition to the Parliament, 1701

To a Lady, whom he refus'd to Marry, because he lov'd her.

Jo. Haines's Reformation-Prologue, drest as a deep Mourner.

Jo. Haines's Reformation-Prologue.

On his Friend Owen Swan, at the Black Swan-Tavern in Bartholomew-Lane.

MR. SWAN'S ANSWER.

PLINY'S EPISTLES.

THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE WOKRS OF Mr. THO. BROWN. Containing LETTERS FROM THE Dead to the Living, And from the Living to the Dead. Both Serious and Comical.

THE Third Volume OF THE WORKS OF Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse.

THE Fourth and Last Volume OF THE WORKS OF Mr. THO. BROWN. CONTAINING

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Advice to the Kentish Long-Tails, by the Wise Men of Gotham. In answer to their late sawcy Petition to the Parliament, 1701

We, the Long-Heads of Gotham, o'er our merry Cups meeting,
To the Long-Tails of Kent, by these Presents send Greeting:
WHEREAS we're inform'd, that your Maid-stone Grand Jury,
A most Monstrous Petition has pen'd in a Fury,
We are strangely surpriz'd at the News, we'll assure ye.
Unless both our Reading and Memory fails,
Old Kent has been fam'd, not for Heads, but for Tails.
Not to make on your Intellects any Reflection,
The Senate needs none of the Kentish Direction
To prevent foreign Insults, and home Insurrection,
Without your intruding and sage interposing,
And thrusting where no Body calls you, your Nose in,
Our Commons will steer the great Boat of themselves,
And save it from dashing on Rocks or on Shelves;
They'll provide for our Tarrs, and settle the Nation.
Then let each private Man be content in his Station.
We therefore advise you to lead sober Lives,
To look after your Orchards, and comfort your Wives.
To Gibbets and Gallows your Owlers advance,
That, that's the sure way to mortify France;
For Monsieur our Nation will always be gulling,
While you take such care to supply him with Woollen.
And if your Allegiance to Cæsar's so great,
All smuggling and stealing of Customs defeat,
Or else all your Loyalty's nought but a Cheat.
Above all, let each Long-Tail his Talent employ,
On his Spouse's soft Anvil to get such a Boy
As will equal in Vigour the fam'd William Joy.

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Then in Peace you may eat both your boil'd and your Roast,
And the French will be damn'd e'er they Land on your Coast.

Signed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and the Common-Council, all the Inhabitants, both Men, Women and Children, that could make their Marks, at the Quarter-Sessions, holden at Gotham, in Comitatu Essex, the 12th of May, 1701.