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[on left-hand side, page facing title page, a picture of] W. King LL.D. ÆT.49 [epigraph in Latin:] Ridentem Dicere Verum, Quid Vetat? Hor.
[First poem taken down for its note]
The Eagle and the Robin*, An Apologue; translated from the Original of Æsop, written Two Thousand years since, and now rendered in familiar Verse by H.G. L. Mag.(1)
* The political moral of this little apologue is too evident to need any other comment, than barely mentioning that the lady was Queen Anne; desiring the reader to recollect the change which she made in her ministry in 1709, the year in which this poem was written; and referring to Dr. King's "Ruf[s?]inus, or the Favourite," in the English Poets, vol XX.p. 367 N [iii.1]
The Eagle and the Robin. By Dr. King. Page 3
Robin Red Breast with the Beasts; and Old Cat's Prophecy. BTS. 13
Bibliotheca, or the Modern Library. By the same. 19 [Poem actually written by Thomas Newcomb; full title, the same as here:] Bibliotheca: A Poem. Occasoned by the sight of a Modern Library. With some very useful episodes, and digressions. [It is catalogued in Foxon N246, and is on ETC Reel 2076, no. 07; also at the Newberry (see notebook 1, p. 51). It is a long, iii.19-74, description of all the books in a "Doctor's" library, published originally in 1712. I wonder if it is in Dryden? Nichols attributes it to King, but says it is anonymous;] The poem is on many accounts worth preserving; and if it is not Dr. King's, it is at least not by an inferior writer. N
Epistle to Mr. Goddard. By the same. 13
Receipt to make an Oatmeal Pudding. BTS. 77
Receipt to make a Sack-posset. BTS. ibid.
Upon a Giant's Angling. BTS. 78
The Charms of Liberty, in Allusion to the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus. By W. Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. 81
To the Returning Sun. By J. H*. 87 [iii.87:] *I cannot ascertain to whom these initials belong; perhaps to Mr. John Hughes. N.
On the Dutchess of Portsmouth. [no auth.] 88
The Dream. By Mr. Talbot. Occasioned by the Death of Lady Seymour+. 89 [+ = daughter and wife of]
Elegy, by Mr. J. Talbot. Occasioned by reading and transcribing Mr. Waller's "Poem of Divine Love" after his Death. 92
Against Sloth; when the King was at Oxford. [no auth.] 93
Ode sung before King Charles II. on New-years's-day. By Mr. Jacob Allestry. 94
What art thou, Love? By the same. 96
To Sir Godfrey Kneller, drawing Lady Hyde's Picture. By Mr. Higgons. 113
To a Lady, who, raffling for the King of France's Picture, flung the highest chances on the Dice. BTS. ibid.
On Lady Sandwich's being stayed in town by the immoderate Rain. By Mr. Higgons [rptd. bec. new page] 114
To Mr. Pope. BTS. ibid.
Of the Immortality of the Muses. By Henry Cromwell, Esq. 115
Ode to Sylvia. In Imitation of Prior. [no auth] 117
The Apparition. By Abel Evans, D.D. Occasioned by the publication of Tindal's Rights of the Christian Church. 118
Vertumnus, an Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart. By Dr. Evans. 145
On Blenheim House. By the same. 161
On Sir J. Vanbrugh, an Epigrammatical Epitaph. BTS ibid.
On a Learned Device on Blenheim Great Gate; a huge Lion tearing a Cock in Pieces. BTS. 162
On the same. [no auth] ibid.
On Dr. Tadlow. By the same. ibid [I think these two are not by Evans, because Nichols offers us in a note another epigram on Tadlow by Dr. Evans.]
Dr. Conyers to Dr. Evans Bursar, on cutting down some fine College-trees. 163
On the Monument at London. By Capt. Radcliffe. ibid.
Dryden's Description of Night burlesqued. BTS. 166
To the Memory of a fair young Lady. By Dr. Yalden. ibid.
To Myra, written in her Cleopatra. BTS. 168
Advice to a Lover. BTS. ibid.
To the Earl of Roscommon, on his Essay on Translated Verse. By Dr. Chetwood. 169
On the Marriage of the Lady Mary with the Prince of Orange. By Dr. Chetwood. [name rpt. bec new page] 173
On the First Fit of the Gout. Probably by the same. 175
To Dr. Chetwood, when he had the Gout. By Dr. Waldren. 177
Epistle from Dr. Waldren to Dr. Chetwood, on his refusing to take the Oaths 179
To Celia. BTS. 180
An Essay upon Death. BTS. 181
Song, made for a Wedding. BTS. 185
Epigram on a Pigmy's Death. By Dr. Sprat. ibid.
Marvel's Ghost. By Captain John Ayloffe [I checked the s's]. 186
On the Cambridge Commencement. By the same. 188
Written in a Lady's Waller. [no auth.] 190
Song [no auth] 191
Anacreon imitated. [no auth] ibid.
Anacreon imitated. [no auth] 192
Anacreon imitated. [no auth] 193
Pallas. [no auth] ibid.
Part of Virgil's First Georgick. By Mr. Sacheverell. 194
Song. By Sir John Eaton. 199
Sir John Eaton imitated. By John Earl of Rochester. 200
The Passing Bell. [no auth.] 201
Ballad on a New Opera. 1658. [no auth.] 202
The Hypocrite. By Mr. Caryll. 1678 205
On Seeing a Bank of Primroses covered with Snow. By Mr. Thomas Foxton. 207
On the Castle of Dublin. By Dr. Parnell, 1715. 208
On the Death of Mr. Viner. BTS. 209
Epigram. BTS. 212
Love in Disguise. By Dr. Parnell. [name given bec. new page(2)] 213
Chloris appearing in a Looking-glass. BTS. 214
On a Lady with Foul Breath. BTS. 215
On the Number Three. BTS. 219
Essay on the different Styles of Poetry. BTS. 217
The Counter-Scuffle, 1670 [no auth, but see notes above; Nichols surmises that R.S. stands for Sir Roger L'Estrange, although how you get S and "L'Estrange" together beats me.] 237
The Counter-Rat. [no auth; by the same R.S., whoever that is] 237
The Church-Scuffle. [no auth in Index; it says in the text, By John Crowne, and gives long note on him.] 279
Canto I. 279
II. 284
III. 290
IV. 305
Lines by Mr. Higgons, in the blank Leaf of the Royal Mischief, a Tragedy by Mrs. Manley. 312
Verses to Queen Anne and the Prince of Denmark, on their visiting Oxford in 1702.
I. To the Queen at Christ-Church. By Mr. Harcourt. [NP#]
II. To the Prince at Christ-Church. By Mr. Cowslade [see note above]
III. To the Queen at Supper. By Mr. Finch. 315
IV. To the Queen, going to Bed. By Mr. Pulteney. 316
END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
"BTS" means "By the Same" author who wrote the preceding poem.
"FTS" means "From the Same" collection which is listed as the source of the preceding poem.
(1)[Preceding King's poem, which begins on p. 3, is a little direct translation (I presume--at any rate, a prose translation) of The Eagle and the Robin by someone who signs,] Horat.Gram. [Could this be a grammar book?]
(2)A new page of the Index.
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