An erudite personal miscellany including neo-Latin satirical epigrams and English state and miscellaneous verse.
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As in those nations where they yet adore Os53*1 (p. 1)
<To Celia. Poems upon several occasions. 1672. Qui colit ille facit [`p. 43.a']>
Although no art the fire of love can tame Os53*2 (p. 1)
<Distich on love. Sed potes igne pari [`p. 32.b']>
Though I can never reach her excellence Os53*3 (pp. 1-2)
<The humble chaste fair one [`p. 37.b'] [extract. check]>
[All things submit themselves to your command] Os53*4 (p. 2)
<The feminine monarchy [`p. 62.b.'] [extract beginning `You are Love's citadels; by you he reigns' -- line from the printed edition]>
Cloris I cannot say your eyes Os53*5 (p. 3)
<Tota pulchra. or Je ne sçay quoy [`p. 12.b']>
Madam with so much wonder we are strook Os53*6 (pp. 3-4)
<On the Duchess of Newcastle [`p. 58.a']>
Many have been the vain attempts of wit Os53*7 (pp. 5-6
<Epilogue to Tartuffe, spoken by himself [`p. 61.a']>
Entreaty shall not serve nor violence Os53*8 (pp. 6-7)
<Epilogue to Every man in his humour [`p. 29.a']>
We must resign heaven his great soul doth claim Os53*9 (pp. 7-8)
<Upon the late storm, and death of his highness ensuing the same [`Mr Waller'] [not in 1672? there is a printed source 1659] [TC title: `Upon the storm before Oliver's death']>
This dog can bark bite fawn rather than fail Os53*10 (p. 8)
<Gondoman / Roman Dog } Anagram [`Mr W. Breton of Eman. Coll']>
And now 'tis time for their officious haste Os53*11 (pp. 9-14, facing p. 1)
<Heroic stanzas; consecrated to the glorious memory of his most serene, and renowned highness, Oliver, late Lord Protector of this Commonwealth: Written after the celebration of his funeral [`by John Dryden'] [stanza 10 was omitted and later added facing p. 1] [printed text 1659]>
'Tis true great name thou art secure Os53*12 (pp. 14-26)
<To the happy memory of the most renowned prince, Oliver, Lord Protector etc. A pindaric ode [`by Thomas Sprat of Oxon.'] [printed text 1659]>
By this large margent did the poet mean Os53*13 (pp. 26-7)
<Upon Aglaura printed in folio [`Richard Brome']>
Like a dog with a bottle made fast to his tail Os53*14 (p. 27)
<[no title] [`Thomas Flatman']>
The dregs of Lethe O thou dull Os53*15 (pp. 28-9)
<A curse against ale; by one drunk with it the night before [`T. Bonham']>
Some years of late in eighty-eight Os53*16 (pp. 29-30)
<An old song on the Spanish Armada in 88>
Are these the strings that poets feign Os53*17 (pp. 30-1)
<On his lutestrings cat-bitten [`Anonym.']>
L'Amour est à la taverne Os53*18 (pp. 31-2)
<Chanson à boire>
When the chill sirocco blows Os53*19 (p. 32)
<Then give me ale>
After so many sad mishaps Os53*20 (pp. 33-4)
<On Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert [`Sir John Denham'] [subheading `On Gondibert']>
Hum to your witty worships all or rather Os53*21 (pp. 35-8)
<Batracho-myo-machia. Or a public commencement at Cambridge July 1-2/ 1650 [`Matthew Scrivener']>
Mercury showed Apollo Bartas' book Os53*22 (pp. 38-9)
<On the tenth muse. (Anne Bradstreat's poems. 1650) [`N[at]. Ward']>
He in a vial the sun's atoms takes Os53*23 (p. 39)
<Femina nulla bona est [`Gerardo. the unf. Span. p. 140'] [i.e. Gerardo de Cespades, the unfortunate Spaniard (from Crum)]>
Sic Katharina gerat Carolus sic gignat ut illa Os53*24 (p. 39)
<In the Domiduca Oxoniensis on the K's marriage, Dr Smith of X's Ch. had this distich>
Let Kate so thrive and Charles so swive Os53*24.1 (p. 39)
<Which an unmannerly fellow thus Englished [`Fleetwood Shepherd']>
Una dies Lorenos Burgundos hebdomas una Os53*25 (p. 39)
<On the French king's conquests>
Lorraine he stole by fraud he got Burgundy Os53*26 (p. 39)
<Turned thus by the Earl of Rochester>
Clarendon had wit and sense Os53*27 (p. 40)
<The three chits in story>
[If I could write with a poetic fire] Os53*28 (pp. 40-1)
<On the songs of Signor Pietro Reggio [`Thomas Shadwell']> [first ?2 lines missing (marked with dots) and incomplete at end as indicated by `&c &c'. First line from Crum]>
Sad fate our valiant Captain Bedloe Os53*29 (pp. 41-3)
<Funeral tears upon the death of Captain William Bedloe>
She that was ever fair and never proud Os53*30 (p. 43)
<Women's unknown virtues [`W. Sh. 795'] [Crum: reference to the 1664 Folio, Othello, ii.i]>
Hark hark the lark at heaven-gate sings Os53*31 (p. 43)
<The morning. Reveille-matin [`Id. 855']>
Let those soft poets who have steeped their brains Os53*32 (p. 44)
<On Mr Russel's battles of Leipsich and Lutzen [`Jo. Saltmarsh'] [TC ends here]>
How richly is thy work rewarded see Os53*33 (p. 44)
<To the same author [`St. Jones. C.S.J'] [i.e. Stephen Jones of St. John's College Cambridge. Couplet to John Russell (Crum)]>
<group of epitaphs begins: #34 - #41>
Grim Death perceiving he had far outran Os53*34 (p. 44)
<Epitaphs. On an ingenious youth>
He first deceased she a little tried Os53*35 (p. 44)
<A lady died soon after her husband>
No epitaphs need make the just man famed Os53*36 (p. 44)
<On Mr Thomas Allen>
God works wonders now and then Os53*37 (p. 44)
<On a lawyer>
Into this world as stranger to an inn Os53*38 (p. 45)
<On a child>
As careful nurses on their beds do lay Os53*39 (p. 45)
<Another>
In this marble casket lies Os53*40 (p. 45)
<Another>
Under this marble buried lies Os53*41 (p. 45)
<On a beautiful virgin>
If Spite be pleased when as her object's dead Os53*42 (p. 46)
<On Sir Walter Rawleigh>
He that can read a sigh and spell a tear Os53*43 (p. 46)
<On a learned nobleman>
A chine of beef God bless us all Os53*44 (pp. 46-7)
<[no title]>
That petty trifle Caesar of the west Os53*45 (p. 47)
<[no title]>
England men say of late is bankrupt grown Os53*46 (p. 47)
<Sir Jo. Harrington on K. James his coming in [also #59]>
Not to commend or censure thee or thine Os53*47 (p. 48)
<On the merry beggars [`A.B.']>
[I see you are] good Monsieur Car about to fall Os53*48 (p. 48)
<On the Earl of Somerset [MS has: `J.C.V.R. good Monsr...'] [also #64] [Crum I443]>
He bears ?p[er]ty-p[er]-pale indented God's glory etc Os53*49 (p. 49)
<The coat of arms of Sir John presbyter [`printed'] [prose text]>
Beaumont and Fletcher that exalted pair Os53*50 (p. 50)
<[no title]>
<p. 50: The worst is told the best is hid>
<Archie in disgrace. His wife thus petitioned the king [two lines only, followed by `&c &c' and the whole lot crossed through; see #54 below]>
Amongst black crimes and foremost of the train Os53*51 (p. 51)
<Ambition. A vision. 1685 [EX: `Besotted into such credulitie. &c &c']>
Thou honeysuckle of the hawthorn hedge Os53*52 (p. 51)
<A country courtship>
At his first appearing in Charterhouse an olive-coloured velvet suit Os53*53 (p. 52)
<Description of a Scot at first sight [`'Tis Dr Donns: printed with his essays'] [prose text]>
The worst is told the best is hid Os53*54 (p. 52)
<Mistress Hoskins petition for her husband>
You follow whores your mistress taxeth you Os53*55 (p. 52)
<[no title] [couplet]>
Down came grave ancient Sargeant Crook Os53*56 (pp. 53-6)
<The parliament-fart. 1607. By Sargeant Hoskins>
Reader I was born and cried Os53*56.1 (p. 56)
<The fart's epitaph>
Es de vidrio la muger Os53*57 (p. 57)
<The woman the weaker vessel [`Leo: Digges']>
To enrich the city by deading of trade Os53*58 (p. 57)
<Of the new orders [ends with `&c']>
England men say of late is bankrupt grown Os53*59 (p. 57)
<[no title] [`Sir Jo: Harrington'] [also #46]>
<a group of 4 paradoxes, each expressed in a rhyming couplet, follows, without separate headings>
Thy father gave from thee by his last will Os53*60 (p. 58)
<[no title]>
So deeply N. hath vowed ne'er more to come Os53*61 (p. 58)
<[no title]>
Thy sins and hairs no man can equal call Os53*62 (p. 58)
<[no title]>
I am unable yonder beggar cries Os53*63 (p. 58)
<[no title]>
[I see you are] good Monsieur Carr about to fall Os53*64 (p. 58)
<[no title] [MS has: `J.C.U.R...' and all four lines crossed through] [repeat entry of #48]>
At all religions present and all past Os53*65 (p. 58)
<On John Dryden>
A maiden fair I will not wed Os53*66 (p. 58)
<Choice of a wife>
Fair and wanton black and proud Os53*67 (p. 58)
<The English proverb, as I remember, is─ >
If Heaven rejoice when men leave off to sin Os53*68 (p. 59)
<[no title] [rejoice uncorr; be pleas'd corr]>
Hors omnium si detur optio mihi Os53*69 (p. 59)
<Dom. Baudius thus concludes his Iambics In tres juris perversores. Epist. p. 33>
If for the asking my wish I might have Os53*69.1 (p. 59)
<[no title; translation of previous]>
But why extoll'st Jerusalem's lewd sagan Os53*70 (p. 59)
<Satyr against Dryden's Achitophel. p. 14 [4-line extract? not found in Crum]>
As I walked by myself / I talked to myself Os53*71 (p. 59)
<W.P.O. [ie. William Prince of Orange]>
Quilibet si sit contentus Os53*72 (pp. 60-3)
<Convivium philosophicum tentum in clauso term. Mich. in crast. festis. Ægidii in campis: autore Doctore Rodolpho Colfabio Æneo-nasensi [`Sure, these doggerel macaronics upon Tom Coryat are made by Sargeant Hoskins, that wrote the Parliament-Fart.']>
Reader I'll be sworn upon a book Os53*73 (pp. 63-4)
<Epitaph upon the Lord Brook>
Apollo concerned to see the transgressions Os53*74 (pp. 64-6)
<A session of the poets [incomplete - marked at end with asterisks]>
These are to give notice to all gentlemen and others Os53*75 (pp. 66-7)
<A bill pasted on the wall of Christ Church Oxon. 1689 [`With the leave of the Reverend, the Vicechancellor, and the Heads of Houses, who subscribed the Association'] [prose text]>
Impia decreto quod dogmata corrigis acri Os53*76 (p. 67)
<[no title]>
Auriacum regem batavis sub duximus Angli Os53*77 (p. 67)
<Mercator ?var impar [4 lines and title largely illegible due to bleed-through]>
These two years prince went forth to fight Os53*78 (p. 68)
<1691. 1692>
Qui croit à sa femme et à son curé Os53*79 (p. 68)
<[no title]>
Whoever believes his parson and his wife Os53*79.1 (p. 68)
<[no title] [translation of previous]>
Qui a horloge à entretenir Os53*80 (p. 68)
<[no title]>
Who has a clock or a watch to tend Os53*80.1 (p. 68)
<[no title] [translation of previous]>
[Nothing thou elder brother even to shade] Os53*81 (p. 68)
<E.R. Upon Nothing, after much A[t]heism, ends thus [last six lines, beginning `French truth...']>
If Rome can pardon sins as Romists hold Os53*82 (p. 69)
<On Rome's pardons [`E. of Rochester']>
<The next three texts appear with the subscription `These 3. out of Philpot's Remains. pp. 533. & 547' (Crum: publ. 1637)>
At Delphos shrine one did a doubt propound Os53*83 (p. 69)
<Upon Mr Edmund Spencer>
When Vere sought death armed both with sword and shield Os53*84 (p. 69)
<Upon Sir Francis Vere>
A fitter match could never have been Os53*85 (p. 69)
<On a butcher, that married a tanner's daughter>
So many heads so many wits fie fie Os53*86 (p. 70)
<Quot capita, tot sententia [`Id. ?? p. 552']>
<p. 71 (pasted in): `Hic jacet Ecclesia Anglicana / semi mortua, semi sepulta ... 1691'>
<pp. 72-307 are blank. The next section is upside down, and difficult to read because of bleed-through. CHECK ALL LATIN!! Working from back:>
Miror de perlatis Gallicis cujus sunt ordinis Os53*87 (p. 312 rev.)
<A libel sent from Rome, affixt on several churches in Paris. 1682>
Ut canerent data multa olim sunt Valib. æra Os53*88 (p. 312 rev.)
<Pasquillus ad Paulum III>
Vendit Alexander claves altaria Christum Os53*89 (p. 312 rev.)
<In Alexandr[?um] VI>
Oremus pro papâ Paulo Os53*90 (p. 312 rev.)
<In Paulum ... pont.>
Fortior ad veneris fiat quo prælia clerus Os53*91 (p. 312 rev.)
<Cælibatus cleri>
Fæmina Petre tua est quondam ausa sedere cathedrâ Os53*92 (p. 311 rev.)
<De ritu creandoque pontificum [`Jan. parmonij']>
Pontificus Pauli testes ne Roma requiras Os53*93 (p. 311 rev.)
<In Paulum p. 11 [`Jan. Pannon']>
Nemo comes quoniam Francisco cælicus adsit Os53*94 (p. 311 rev.)
<De B. Francisco [`H. Cort'] [cf. #121]>
Octo Noceus pueros genuit ?tobidemque puellas Os53*95 (p. 311 rev.)
<De Innocentio VIII [`Marull']>
Hoc tumulo dormit Lucretia nomine sedre Os53*96 (p. 311 rev.)
<In Lucretia[?m] Alexandri VI [`Jov. pontan']>
Ergo te semper cupiet Lucretia sextus Os53*97 (p. 311 rev.)
<In tandem [`Acc. Sann']>
[Greek couplet] Os53*98 (p. 311 rev.)
<In Monachos [ascription in Greek]>
Si Monachi cur tanta cohors cur tot simul est id Os53*99 (p. 311 rev.)
<[no title; translation of Greek?] [`Bergis']>
Quæque suos fructus regio mortalibus adfert Os53*100 (p. 310 rev.)
<In Romam [E Græo (Greek) Xr. D.']>
Nomen Alexandri ne te fortaque moretur Os53*101 (p. 310 rev.)
<Epitaph. Alexandri VI>
Genua cui patrem genetricem Græcia partum Os53*102 (p. 310 rev.)
<In Julium p. 11 [`C. Gr.']>
Obtulerat Juli quæ sors tibi nupera Claves Os53*103 (p. 310 rev.)
<In eundem>
Jupiter Europam vera est si fabula tauri Os53*104 (p. 310 rev.)
<Europa à Monarchis subacta [`E.R.']>
Christiolim in terris bene qui servaret ovile Os53*105 (p. 310 rev.)
<Roma simoniaca [`Theod. Gresm.']>
Roma vale vidi satis est vidis[sit?]e revertar Os53*106 (p. 310 rev.)
<Pasquilli valedictio>
Martem olim complexa Venus poscebat amantem Os53*107 (p. 309 rev.)
<Romæ petulantia [`Theod. Gresm.']>
Roma quid est ?pro ?quid te doceat preposterus orde Os53*108 (p. 309 rev.)
<Romæ Elymon. Dialogus inter V: Amore, et Pasquallum [`J.V.']>
Audio cantans sed si male vivitis ut jam Os53*109 (p. 309 rev.)
<Sacrificulis, et Monachis>
Non homo me melior Romæ est ego nil peto abullo Os53*110 (p. 309 rev.)
<Pasquillus de se>
Se polero di Marforio e di Pasquino Os53*111 (p. 309 rev.)
<Epitafio giacoso [`Loredan']>
Dom Filippo son io condotto à morte Os53*112 (p. 309 rev.)
<Altro, d'un cortigiano [`Loredan']>
Louis Jacques et Guillaume Os53*113 (p. 308 rev.)
<Aug. 8. 1689. the Baron of Killing.. [and 2 others] were tried ... affixt ... libel... the King of France's statue in the Place of Victory. The third was aquitted; the two others hanged and quartered in the same place>
France totters under these three royal names Os53*113.1 (p. 308 rev.)
<Englished thus [largely illegible; first line from Crum]>
Intrare Nassau qui tibi ... Os53*114 (p. 308 rev.)
<Nassavioque Nassa [largely illegible]>
Rex cogito sui cogitet quantum ?volt Os53*115 (p. 308 rev.)
<Le ?Trespetur [largely illegible; second line begins `Contingat illa']>
Missa puella fuit... Os53*116 (p. 308 rev.)
<Epitaphium Missæ [`O. Mel. T. 2. p. ?60']>
Forte ?doivi solus cud Naso porta sederat Os53*117 (p. 307 rev.)
<In importunum Jarun? pulsatorem [`O. Mel. Joco. Sat. 2. v. 53']>
Cur promissa tibi tuus poeta Os53*118 (p. 307 rev.)
<Ad Galleottum princ. Farentinum [`Ang. posit. t. 2. v. 308']>
Urit in affectu Venus anxia serdet in actu Os53*119 (p. 307 rev.)
<In coitus illicitos [`O. Mel. Jom. p. 56']>
Nutrix Roma fuit genetrix Florentiæ flevit Os53*120 (p. 307 rev.)
<In Clementem VII [ascription illegible `... p. 219']>
Nemo comes quoniam Francisco cælicus adsit Os53*121 (p. 307 rev.)
<De B. Francisco Jocus [`... p. 220']>
[illegible] Os53*122 (p. 307 rev.)
<De ... >
[commonplace entries] Os53*123 (pp. 313-14)
<[numbered prose items 989-997]>
<pp. 315-363 are blank>
[Oxford Feasts] Os53*124 (pp. 372-364 rev.)
<[prose list of 105 numbered items]>