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A broker's wife like peacock bright Display'd her starry neck one night
Anonymous
A penny worth or Surman's necklace
For his dear Bess a broker now Can on his wife bestow
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 191
And art return'd great duke with all thy faults Thou great commander of the All-go-naughts
Heappe, John ?
In reducem ducem
Before thy going fright them from their coasts Could not thy titles
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 207
And does licentious Ovid then presume Into the schools of wisdome still to come
Anonymous
A dialogue between Plato and Ovid. Spoken in Tonbridge School May 11 1725
Beauty invisible you should pursue Since there's no beauty visible in you
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 126-128
At Sennoak so fam'd for virginity old A scheme was on foot as we're credibly told
Amherst, Elizabeth
The Sennoak nunnery. To the tune of Packington's pound
So finding his project wou'd never prevail The justice desisted and here ends my tale
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 199-204
Beneath this monument enshrin'd lies here All that heav'n has not of this pious fair
Anonymous
An elegy on Mrs Jordan
To the bright regions of eternall love T'encrease the number of the saints above
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 176
Bless me 'tis cold let's in and make a fire Whose genial warmth new vigour may inspire
H, T
Verses made on the expression Bless me tis cold
With pleasing epithets our bumpers crown Let's live today tomorrow's not our own
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 182
Come boys let us laugh and be merry The bells they shall merrily ring
Anonymous
An health to King George
But as for the Popish Pretender We'll thump the knave over again
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 192
Come imp royal come away Into dark night wee'l turn bright day
Anonymous
A dialogue between Pluto and Oliver
Yet scorne to change our chains For his eternal deity
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 178
Dear Chloe attend To the advice of a friend
Anonymous
To a young lady of eighteen courted by a man of threescore
Shake off an old lover And try what a young one can do
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 224
Ere biting prologue or epilogue did begin E'r wit could laugh or satyr learn to grin
Anonymous
An epilogue spoken by Jo: Haines to a new play
The pulpit so supported by the stage I'le boast that Jo: Haynes reform'd the stage
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 172
Farewell old year for thou canst ne'er return No more than the good queen for whom we mourn
Anonymous
Farwell song on the year 1714
Farwell old year old monarch and old Tory Farwell old England thou hast lost thy glory
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 189
Great George I sing there's music in that name Fills all my lays and all the trumps of fame
Morton, Richard
On the proclaiming King George 1714 by Richard Moreton a scholar at Tonbridge School
Let all our happy nation love the throne And guardian angells still support the crown
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 179
Had parts and merit gain'd the chair Then Bromley wee had seen thee there
Anonymous
On Bromly's dissapoinment of being Speaker
The church and honesty disown Directly then the chair's thy own
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 189
Hear all true friends of knighthood A tale will raise your wonder
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield
On the loss of Sr Wm Morgans red ribon at Reading, to the tune of Noble race was Shimkin
Depend those things Whereon you build your glory
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 191
Her thoughts were noble and her words not lavish Yet free but wisely weighed more apt to ravish
Anonymous
Character of a lady
Quick but not rash courteous yet not common Not too familiar and yet scorning no man
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 178
Here lies an old man of seventy-seven Who dy'd as he liv'd yet hoped for heaven
Anonymous
An epitaph upon bona fide
If Worster says true prepare for thy fall For George of Great Britian will manage you all
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 195
Here lieth our church Which no mortal can save
Anonymous
Epitaphia in eclesiam Anglicanam
With a whig for archbishop A low church for queen
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 189
History speaks of kings' great fame Ninny Mack Nero Jemy trans sub
Anonymous
Song for the year 1688, tune of Lilibolero
Nero Nero Niny Mack Nero Jemy trans sub Nero Nero Nero Nero Niny Mack Nero Jemy trans sub
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 188
I sing thy sad disasters fatal king Carnarvan Edward second of that name
Hubert, Sir Francis
Now take thy worke out of the loomes again And tell the world that all the world is vain
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 1-99
I thirst for thirstiness I weep for tears Well pleas'd I am to be displeased thus
Gataker, Thomas
A pious epigram of Mr Gatakers written with his own hand a little before his end and found in his study after his decease
Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find For those that rest not here ther's rest behind
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 173
If any pleasure did accrue To father mother or to you
Weller, George
And services send out by dosens All o're the parish to our cousins
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 107-108
Is this the celebrated lawn where Phoebus lay To hear the charming Strephon play
Anonymous
A pastoral
Lets jointly offer up an holy prayer That healing peace may cure the ills of war
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 120-123
Ladies come listen awhile And tis odds but my ditty will make you to smile
Anonymous
The belle assembly
Without further compliments gallants adieu Derry down etc
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 193-194
Let venal annals boast a Caesar's reign When Rome's great genius wore th'imperial chain
Anonymous
On the late association in Yorkshire. A rhapsody. Tonbridge Oct 3rd 1745
Till earth's last offspring see thy glories smile And fondly wild mistake thee for Argyle
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 196-197
Now Phoebus does his beams of light display And driveth Boreas's colder blasts away
Anonymous
Extempore verses made to Mr Sp--s by Mr B--rst on asking for a play day.
Pray sir to let us play now condescend Since Boreas's pufts to Phoebus rays do bend
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 178
Of human life on this compendious stage Nature assigns fit powers for ev'ry age
Anonymous
The highest honour to which cit can rise By honest gains from trade and merchandize
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 133
Of human life on this compendious stage Nature assigns fit powers for ev'ry age
Anonymous
Verses spoken before the Company of Skinners at their annual visitation of the school of Tonbridge 17 May 1743 by the master who desired to resign. [Latin epigraph]
And when soe'er the final hours draw nigh Have nothing in this world to do but die
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 183-186
Our grannums of old were so piously nice That to shew us their shoetye was reckon'd a vice
Anonymous
On hoop peticoats and broad hats worn by the ladys
Perhaps they may blush and 'tis a sign of some grace When their breech is expos'd to cover their face
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 177
Paphos was once the queen of beauty's court Where love resided with his gay resort
Anonymous
Little master or The Bath toast 1709
Till little master has so oft been fill'd That we to beauty leave the conquer'd field
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 174-175
Should Seneca's Morals or some such grave book Deck your Tonbridge Wells toilet how odd it would look
Weller, George
Agust [sic] 13th 1743. To Miss Jenny and Miss Betty Austen at Tonbridge Wells with Waller's and Priors poems. When we are at Rome, we must do as they do at Rome. [To Miss Austens at Tonbridge Wells (dorse).]
Then chuse some kind passage from authors like these And your waters will pass with more pleasure and ease
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 108
Since dearest friend the time draws near apace When we must part and quit this pleasant place
Anonymous
A dialogue between Skinner Spencer and Master Shadwell both before they went to the university at leaving the school
Tis not says Waller that which first we love But that which sick and dyeing we approve
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 129-132
Some secret passion Colin stands confin'd Within the deep recesses of your mind
Anonymous
Caelia and Collin a pastoral
Before the goddess Collin shall resign His life his soul his all for ever thine
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 160-162
That holy church which to secure Their blood the martyrs spilt
Anonymous
The Kentish ballad or the church upon a pole. To the tune, They are all undone.
Nor of religion make a jest With church upon a pole
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 190
That lowly vicar may in order rise To all the churches splendid dignities
Anonymous
Reply to the country parson instructing him how to become a bishop
Lancasters parts and Sherlocks peircing witt Will make him for a high church bishop fit
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 180
The first physicians by debauch were made Excess began and sloth sustains the trade
Dryden, John
Excercise the best physick
The wise for health on exercise depend God never made his work for men to mend
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 195
This is the lawn and this the hour to meet The proud Alexis prostrate at my feet
Anonymous
The pastoral at Tonbridge School May 14 1700 by Daphnis, Thomas Pickering, Alexis, Robert Kelk, Strephon, Thomas Brewer
So shall the graces plead the muses cause And all the nymphs united sound applause
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 123-125
Thy mighty genius Steele from earth is fled Yet still thy hero lives tho' thou art dead
Anonymous
The Christian hero
Look down with growing joy and thousands see Sav'd by the lessons they have learnt by thee
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 158
Were I who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious creatures man
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
A satyr on man
If such there be yet grant me this at least Man differs more from man than man from beast
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 168-171
What ails the gods thus to disturb my rest And make such earthquaks in my troubled breast
Anonymous
A dream interpreted for marriage
I knew 'twas nothing but a dreaming joy A bliss which wakeing I should nere enjoy
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 177
What pity 'tis such sense such wit For such a place so very fit
Anonymous
Made by one on boghouse witt, As he was hard bound at sh-t.
Pray double it and wipe again By G-d you can't abuse it
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 182
When York to heav'n shall lift one solemn eye And love his wife above adultery
Wharton, Philip, Duke of Wharton ?
Verses on the judges etc - or his love to Caelia
Then shall I cease my Caelia to adore And think of love and politicks no more
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 176
Whilst youthful sprightly nature in full force remains And the blood runs high and warm and briskly thro' our veins
Anonymous
Doctor and patient. The doctors skill and patient's case consider'd and discover'd.
How after thrive it may I need not greatly care Nor will I raise dispute whether 'twill reach third heir
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 205-206
Who can enjoy these captivating scenes These lively prospects or the lovely shade
Weller, George
Boxted Hall September the 14th 1738
The meerest particle of earth will speak Thy praise and bless the power that gave it birth
U. Leeds, Brotherton
Lt q 51
p. 104-106