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Folio
Behold, by undiscerning fate,
Thurston, Joseph
`On a lady dangerously sick'
The roses fade, the lilies die.
Yale
c.244
p. 570
O lead me where my darling lies,
`Verses made by a father on the death of his dau[ghter]'
I'll dig my way to thee.
Yale
c.244
p. 570
False Robin the little that lately was great
`A state riddle'
Found traps for his foes, and base tricks for his friends.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 1
Take heed, ye elders, let your guide be truth
`Advice to an old man'
Be good old boy, and do so no more.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 1
Tonight usurping tyranny attend
`Prologue on Jane Grey'
And rule in mercy with a right divine.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 2
When his lov'd Germans George was forc'd to leave,
`On King George [I]' [pr. 1715 (Foxon L117)]
Each prince to govern, where he'll govern well.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 2
Rejoice ye Whigs, your idol's come again.
`On the Duke of Marlborough' [1715]
Ring not the bells you fools, but wring your hands.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 3
Hail happy Albion thou art strangely blest,
`On the Thanksgiving Day'
Thou hast the evil, but thou want'st the touch.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 4
As the pale moon the sun's bright orb o'ershades
`Found in the King's Bench walk in the Temple just after the eclipse'
So lets the cuckold to the king give way.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 5
Here Scotus lies, of late as wise
`An epitaph on the late Bishop of Addlebury' [Gilbert Burnet, bp. of Salisbury]
For Marlborough and his Duchess.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 5; see also `Here Sarum liesà'.
Read it right and you will find
There much such canters left behind.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 6
Quoth Charon in wrath what monsters I carry,
`Charon's complaint'
What strength can bear up, under__Churchill and Harley.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 7
The devils were brawling when Burnet descending
`Hell's holiday. Bishop Burnet died 17 March 1714'
Let George reign forever. Amen, cried all Hell.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 8
Appear O James, approach thy native shore
`A call to the righteous'
And James, shall James succeed with better fate.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 9
With sullen pomp, great Prince thy triumph pass,
`On the 20. of January' [1715]
The people's voice, like that of God's rose still.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 9
The genial day succeeds, that Anna gave,
`On the 6th. of February' [1715]
Your silent triumphs Brunswick, are but mine.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 10
A wicked old peer
`Hell in an uproar'
Will bring in the house of Hanover.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 12
How bold is George to venture o'er,
`On the King' [1714]
And leave you to obey your fate. | March Brunswick.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 14
When George the great elector of Hanover
`The Dutch embassy'
They march'd away, and so the farce was done.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 21
Boast not of Bolingbroke's retreat
`The Tories' health'
Charles', or James', or Anna's ghost | All smiling join in chorus.
Yale
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p. 23
Now thou hast seen aspiring Dudley's son,
`Epilogue to The Lady Jane Grey addressed to the Prince'
Rise upon him; and all his bastard brood.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 24
I long observ'd disturbance in your face,
`Verses fixed on King James the Second's statue in the Privy Garden on the 22. of April 1715. in the midst of the eclipse'
Is the people's freedom: and the tyrant's doom.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 25
Let the Act against vagabonds chase the Pretender:
`On the act of Parliament [against vagabonds]'
Which none will refuse, but a Whig, or a Rumper.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 26
When England shall her principles betray,
`An old prophecy made in the year 1297 by one Robert de Cressy, a British astronomer, but found amongst the manuscripts in Oxford in the year 1641' [supposedly on George I]
Which cannot end, till Caesar has his due.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 27
Burnet forever has the Whigs forsook,
`Wharton's funeral ticket'
Be the region, light or dark.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 29
When kings from heav'n deserv'd their crowns,
`A song'
With the fumes of a new reformation.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 30
When Torrington to save our fleet
`The Lord Bolingbroke, proved guilty of High Treason'
Till you come back like Burnet.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 31
As Nero laughing saw fierce fire consume
`Nero the second' [on George I]
Let Nero's vices meet with Nero's doom.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 33
When a Dutch monster with horns
`A prophecy' [of the return of `James III']
And bring both wealth and peace.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 36
From this auspicious night shall rise a star,
Dryden, John
`On the birth of St. George' [from Amphitryon (alt.)]
Shall be compell'd to happiness, by need.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 38
Tho' the ungodly senate has decreed
`The vision. The 20 Psalm imitated from Buchanan' [pr. Edinburgh 1711 (Foxon T581)]
He'll hear our plaints; as thou hast heard his own.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 38
The King in his council did order of late,
`On the clergy' [temp. George I]
Calls down three persons from heaven to tack it.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 39
Windsor at length be to your country just
`Advice to the electors of the borough of New Windsor' [1715]
For Anna ever to the Church was kind.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 40
Born to a triple empire I submit
`On King James the Third'
Than all the wonders of her milder reign.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 41
The revolution is a blessed thing;
`An encomium on the happy revolution by the coherence of the years 1648 1688 and 1715'
The metropolitan of all the three.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 42
Full fifty years it shall be
`Lilly's prophecy'
Then feed the fish.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 43
O people of England when will you be wise,
`Remarks'
And England is curs'd till great James they bring in.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 43
The Golden Age is now at last restor'd
`The golden age'
This day old Noll, to judgment brought the King.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 44
When Rome of old; great Rome was all on fire
`On the late great fire in the city' [13 January 1715; George I attended a play]
And must till piety and right return.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 45
The scourge of heaven, the prophet's lifted rod,
`The plagues of Nod'
Look up ye slaves, deliverance is nigh.
Yale
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p. 46
When a strange whelp shall rule a land,
`A prophecy from Nostradamus' [of the return of the Old Pretender]
The evils done to work this fall.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 49
Behold our crimes, ye foreign shores and see
`A hymn on the 20. of Jan.' [anniversary of Charles I's trial]
God may with thunder strike the usurper down.
Yale
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p. 50
Shall mimic kings long fill the British throne,
`The queries. Post nubilia Phoebus'
And Nature smile on the propitious day.
Yale
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p. 50
Farewell old year, for thou canst ne'er return,
`On the old year' [1714]
Farewell old England thou hast lost thy glory.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 51
The first and greatest who betray'd long since
`The three Olivers'
Then sum up all, and you may guess a third.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 51
O! all ye horrors of eternal night,
`On the Bishop of Salisbury' [Gilbert Burnet]
He must, and shall, be passive there below.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 52
What! Fast and pray__
`On the 30 of Janry' [1696; found on the church door at Whitehall]
For unrepented sins, are ne'er forgiven.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 52
Bring a bowl! I'll toast a health,
`A ballad to a Scotch tune'
Him back again that's blawn awa'.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 54
O where art thou St. Taffy,
`A ballad. To the tune of Owen Tudor'
And so retrieve your glory.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 54 (`St. Taffy'; `tune of Owen Tudor')
On March the one and twentieth day,
`A ballad to the tune of Chevy Chase' [on George I's first speech to Parliament, 1715]
In coach or cock-horse ride.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 57
As in the groves I walk'd alone
`A ballad occasioned by the report of the Queen being past recovery. The echo'
But thanks the gods, that him restore.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 59
If men are doom'd for loyalty
`The fox unkennelled'
His actions reach the skies.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 61
Whilst Zarah from the royal ground
`On the Duchess of Marlborough's cutting down the oak in her garden which was planted by King Charles the 2nd himself; from an acorn growing on the Royal Oak' [1708]
But her, that owns the wood.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 61
Be cautious Madam, how you thus provoke
`The caution' [to the Duchess of Marlborough, who cut down an oak planted by Charles II]
The fate may be your own another day.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 63
Why dost thou root me up ungrateful hand,
`The murmurs of the oak' [cut down by the Duchess of Marlborough in 1708]
To hang up traitors; or preserve a king.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 64
Behold! He comes to make the people groan
`Pasquin to the Queen's statue at St. Pauls, during the procession. Jan. the 20. 1714[/15]'
But beggars hors'd, unto the devil speed.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 66
As threat'ning storms insult the skies,
`On my Lord Bolingbroke's going over into France'
Return triumphant to our hemisphere.
Yale
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p. 67
But since on knavish models G[eor]ge is split,
`Pighburgh and Kilmanseck [Kielmansegge]. The modest toast | We'll soon have pensions at the nation's cost | Beyond what Portland, or what Orkney boast'
To stem by force his madness, and despair.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 67
At Whitehall sits a High Commission
`On the judges going to Bristol'
Led a much better king than you, to France.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 68
What shall a tyrant thus usurp our crown
`On the usurper' [George I]
In triumph let him reign, and die in peace.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 69
Here's a health to the King, whom the crown does belong to
`The health'
But we'll drink a health, a health to all true hearts.
Yale
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p. 70
Let Whigs remember the fourth of November,
`A song upon the fourth of November'
Yet we barter the Church which we own.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 70
George Lewis now usurps the British throne,
`A remembrance to Great Britain'
Our lawful monarch's from their throne is forc'd.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 71
To all ye Tories far from court
`The new court: being a new song to an old tune To all ye ladies, now at land'
Then you're to blame if unprepar'd. | With a fa la la
Yale
c.570/1
p. 75
A strange crew at St. James are harbor'd now,
`The English court made a Dutch b[awd]y house'
Your arms won't save you, for your horse must fly.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 76
Old Oliver's dead and rotten
`The credulous robber cheated by treacherous favorites'
By my troth they may kiss my a[rs]e.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 78
Ah! who could have thought
`A lampoon'
And hang up old Churchill their master.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 79
The lion 'tis no matter how
`The lion's edict...Moral'
The safe way's to be gone; when folks are for hanging.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 81
Let burgundy flow,
`A song'
When High Germans are chas'd and the Whigs go to pot.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 82
Should now the subjects of a certain prince,
`The receiver, as bad as the thief' [on George I]
But Christians now no honesty retain.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 84
Blame not your fate, ye hawkers shrill
`On the proclamations'
By pamphlet proclamations.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 85
Old English kings were wont to speak
`The proxy' [on George I]
Proximity of blood.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 86
Great Britain now may well regret
`Old England's resentment. To the tune of Britain's new health'
Reduc'd again to anarchy | By Coningsmark's pretenders.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 88
That solemn day the world's great Savior died
`On the great eclipse which happened during the sitting of the Select Committee, who began their sessions on Good Friday; and sat all Easter Sunday' [22 April 1715]
Peep'd in the cock-pit and then hid his light.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 91
Tis the twenty-ninth of May
`A new toast, or a ballad on the twenty-ninth of May. To the tune of Over the [hills and far away]' [pr. 1715 (Foxon N233]
That they may rise, and Whigs may fall.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 91
Whilst no repulse thy courage can abate
Higgons, Bevil, 1670_1735
`Mr. Bevill Higgon's address to the Earl of Oxford, in the beginning of his poem on the late peace'
These sad truths did appear.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 92
Whilst treble brass thy harden'd brow defends
`The reverse to Lord Oxford'
Can furnish halters to atone thy guilt.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 92
Three nations mighty Monarch crave
`The true Whig's address' [to George I]
We must plunder; you may reign.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 95
For an apple of gold
`The coffee women turned courtiers. To the tune of Ye Commons and Peers'
At a dish of our coffee, or tea.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 98
Ye fair ladies of Old England
`The fair prisoner [Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]'s doleful petition composed by Bob the Sincere (for which he was disgraced at court) and dropped by Zachariah at the meeting house. N.B. the original is deposited in the Bibloth. Harliana'
You'll be enslav'd, or him uncrown'd.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 100; see also `Ye/You ladies fairà'.
Ye cuckolds all of fam'd Cheapside
`The reply to the fair prisoner [Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]'s doleful petition'
Like eighty-eight, or forty-one.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 102
Let Britain now her grateful homage pay
`The birthday June the 10th 1715'
And bind with Ormonde's laurels, James['s] crown.
Yale
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p. 104
Britannia mourn, lament thy sinking state,
`Advice to Britain' [on George I]
Long live King James our true, and lawful king.
Yale
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p. 105
Come come great monarch come away
`Revolution upon revolution. An old song made the the year 1688. revised in the year 1715'
Except to dance a Tyburn jig. | Couragio &c.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 109
Pray gentlemans come, now zee my vine zhow,
`A new ballad. The show-box. To the tune of Dear Cat'olic Brot'er'
It's to drink a good health to de noble King Jemmy.
Yale
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p. 111
Shall then so bright a day forgotten be
`On the 10 of June' [the birthday of the Old Pretender]
For's restoration and his birthday too.
Yale
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p. 112
When Israel [first] provok'd the living Lord,
`The allusion'
As Bishop Burnet did exceed St. Paul.
Yale
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p. 113
From happy climes where virtue never dies,
Meston, William, 1688?_1745
`Cato's ghost,' [Jacobite verses on Addison's play, pr. 1715 (Foxon M209)]
Then find the generous labor is not lost.
Yale
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p. 116
Had I with Plato's eloquence been fill'd,
`To his sacred majesty King James the Third' [Foxon S110]
And in the temple, we anoint you His.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 117
I love with all my heart
`The reverse: to be read two ways'
Resolve to live and die.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 117
I am very much concern'd to find
`The Duke of Marlborough's speech to the First Regiment of Foot Guards, June the 2nd. 1715' [satire; pr. 1715 (Foxon S627)]
And love King George, of kings the best.
Yale
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p. 120
When savage Goths from Rhine return
`A prophecy. By Merlin the famous British astronomer found written upon an old wall in Saxon characters. Dated the year 482 about the time of the restoration of King Vortigern to the British throne, faithfully transcribed from the original' [on George I;
For lo, her own Augustus reigns.
Yale
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p. 122
Great monarch, hasten to thy native shore
`England's most humble address to her lawful sovereign, of all princes the most accomplished and eminently endowed with all manner of virtues, yet exiled' [pr. 1718? (Foxon E323)]
And willing nations, own their rightful king.
Yale
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p. 123
A prelate hurl'd to the other world
`Strange news from the dead' [on Burnet]
Went hand and hand together.
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p. 124
The twenty-eight[h] of May looks very dull
`The cart well lined'
And we'll have him, or none.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 125
Who's there? A Whig of quality,
`An account of what happened lately in Hell' [on Halifax, Burnet, and Wharton]
You'll have sufficient force to keep your own.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 131
What fatal changes still increase
`Worse, and worse'
In Newgate put the nation.
Yale
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p. 132
Prepare, prepare, prepare
`A song'
He'll serve for to guard the Hanover crew.
Yale
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p. 133
Arise Britannia see around thy head
`On the King's landing in Scotland'
Resum'd his seat, and shone more awful than before.
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p. 134
Robber with pistol at my throat,
`On the oath'
And when I can by G[o]d I'll shoot thee.
Yale
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p. 145
From me dear Charles, inspir'd with ale,
Tunstall, William
`A ballad from a prisoner in the Marshallsea, to another at Newgate' [Sir Charles Wogan; pr. 1716 (Foxon T546)]
The cart would drive, and I be hang'd. | With a fa &c.
Yale
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p. 148
Bow Albion thy inglorious head in dust
`To England'
Than those that freed themselves, and righted J[ame]s.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 149
Let bumpers go round,
`A song'
Huzza drink it round.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 150
When a wall in a pool
`A prophecy' [on Walpole and Bolingbroke, 1716]
Shall leave the man his own mare.
Yale
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p. 151
Of late as they say
`A song. To the tune of Dursley's [Durfey's?] f[ar]t' [pr. 1720? (Foxon E563)]
As fixt as the northern star. | With a &c.
Yale
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p. 155
Jehovah preserve and restore to his own
`A song to the tune of Ianthe the lovely &c.' [on the Old Pretender]
And to thee what is thine.
Yale
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p. 156
When truth and loyalty are in disgrace
`A prophecy by the Bishop of Worcester before the restoration of King Charles the Second'
And future times shall reap the fruits of peace.
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p. 156
When the devil and George, went to it, to fight,
`The combat'
But if it comes to the push, your horns are the longer.
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p. 157
When I survey this mighty frame
Meston, William, 1688?_1745
`A sacred ode'
Offending Thee no more.
Yale
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p. 159
Here Gascoigne lies that brave heroic he,
`An epitaph on Mr. Gascoigne'
Their utmost malice cannot reach thee, there.
Yale
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p. 160
True British hearts you are requir'd to pray
`Verses thrown into houses on the tenth of June'
With one accord to render James his right.
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p. 160
Here lies the relics of a murder'd Earl
`An epitaph on the Earl of Derwentwater'
To join three nations, and their head together.
Yale
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p. 161
Cease to lament for Oxburgh's sudden fall,
`On Count Oxburghs [Oxborough]'
Whene'er our king or honor claims our breath.
Yale
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p. 162
The glory of this world to Whigs are given,
`The English choice or the glory of the Whigs'
Abjur'd their king and Barabbas did choose.
Yale
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p. 163
See him returning to his turnip soil
`Pasquin, the 2d. July the 7th. 1716'
The grin of monkey, from the laugh of man.
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p. 164
What you said last we all allow
`A letter from the maypole in the Strand to the maypole at Farnham' [answered by `'Tis not so strange...'
Be never saw'd to blocks.
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p. 166
'Tis not so strange that Walp[o]l[e]'s tam'd
`The Farnham maypole's reply' [to `What you said last...']
As disaffected timber.
Yale
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p. 166; see also `'Tis no strange thingà'.
You Tories who the Whigs abhor
`On Whig, and Tory'
Or if 'tis right or wrong.
Yale
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p. 167
O! England beware for the people are come
`The Hanover crew'
Sure none but the devil himself can come after.
Yale
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p. 168
You ladies who ogle the prince and his train
`A court ballad'
And Lumley who from Argyll takes his cue.
Yale
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p. 169
Die Townshend, die, thy odious life resign
`On the Lord Townshend's being turned out from being Secretary of State'
Make some atonement for the guilty land.
Yale
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p. 170
O Granville with the load of life opprest
`To the Lord Lansdowne whilst he was in the Tower. From Catullus'
The tyrant's minions and our masters are.
Yale
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p. 170
Divinity and justice hand in hand,
`On the execution of Mr. Paul and Mr. Hall: July the 13: 1716'
When you so just a debt, shall to a farthing pay.
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p. 171
Sit still ye cowards and lament in vain,
`The remonstrance, occasioned by the murder of the Revd. Mr. Paul, and H. Hall esqr.'
And at the name of Britain, be no more.
Yale
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p. 174
When dames of Britain shall espouse
`A prophecy found in an oak'
May hope a speedy restoration.
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p. 175
Why should the bells in merry peals thus roll
`On the rejoicing on the 1st of Augst. Being the day of the Queen's death, and of G[eorg]e's accession to the throne' [pr. 1714 (Foxon O218)]
For Anna's virtue, shall in James survive.
Yale
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p. 177
To you German Sir, a petition I bring
`Tyburn's petition'
For I've got all the world when I've you in a string. | Which nobody can deny
Yale
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p. 180
Farewell to all my shady bowers,
`A song. To the tune of I'll range around the shady bowers &c.'
And never never ask for more.
Yale
c.570/1
p. 181
Happy! Thrice happy is his fate
`Damocles' [on Walpole? pr. 1720? (Foxon D19)]
And crush at once th'inglorious line.
Yale
c.570/2
p. 1
From dreary realms where cold and famine reign,
`A speech deliver'd by the High German-speaking dog when he had audience at Kensington. Introduced by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle'
The land that made you monarch worship me.
Yale
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p. 3
Rise Britons rise defend your injur'd cause,
`To the Britons'
Is, a German's absence and a Stuart's reign.
Yale
c.570/2
p. 5
At James' House is a fearful rout,
`The court scuffle, or, to him Towzer &c. a ballad. To the tune of Nobody &c.'
Instead of a child, to have gotten__nothing at all. Which &c.
Yale
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p. 7
For liberty so long we fought in vain,
`A collect for the Restoration Day. May the 29'
While they are punish'd for a sprig of oak.
Yale
c.570/2
p. 9
I'll tell you a tale of two boobies of note;
`A song. To the tune of 'twas early one morning &c.' [on `Cornutus' [Whig] and `Noddy' (Tory)]
As they fell out like fools; so like fools they'll fall in. | Sing hey ding, ho, ding....
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Thus Wild said to Robin, make me undertaker
Wharton, Philip Wharton, 1st duke, 1698_1731
For as fast as they rob, they fill it again.
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What stubborn still, base rebels take a view
`A poem on K[ing] J[ames] the 3d'
Eternal laurels grown around his grave.
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Whoe'er surveys the face of thee, brave youth
`Written under James Sheppard's picture. He was born the 10th of June 1700. and was executed at Tyburn the 17. of March 1718'
But own thy triumph, and the Roman's lost.
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Is there God, and shall this tribe
`A poem'
A glorious constellation.
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Here stands the monarch of a British throne
`Fixed on King George's statue'
None but his whores e'er found him flesh and blood.
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Within a close gloomy retreat,
`A song. To the tune &c of Despairing beside a clear stream'
And give me a Stuart again.
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Upon the fruitful banks of Thame, whilst mournfully I sat,
Stacy, Edmond, fl. 1710_1715
`Britannia's memorial...by the author of The blackbird's song' [pr. 1715 (Foxon S687)]
Then in a cloud of ambient air, this rev'rend form withdrew.
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My lords and gentlemen to you
`G[eorge]'s speech to his myrmidons' [pr. 1719? (Foxon H249)]
Justice restor'd; and then__good night.
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The wealth of Europe now 'tis plain,
`Some truths in plain English'
Whilst Alberoni rules the roost.
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Dame Briton of the grange once fam'd
`A fable of an old woman and her doctor' [sometimes attrib. Matthew Prior]
Myself a beggar, and a fool.
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Why should honest men despair
`A poem'
God's justice or his power.
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Here's a health to the King and his royal successors,
`A loyal health on the marriage of the king [the Old Pretender]'
To the downfall of Whigs and fanatical Rumpers.
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All hail mighty monarch, tho' banish'd your throne
`On the same occasion' [the marriage of the Old Pretender]
He's a tyrant that rules by compulsion.
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To all clergy in this land
`To all the clergy...')]
Pray give our service to your wives.
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When on us heav'n show'r'd blessings down
`Forty-one' [pr. 1719 (Foxon F207)]
Oh, the vile spawn of forty-one.
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A Whig and a Tory o'er a pot of good ale
`The argument'
'Twas not to compare to good eating and drinking.
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When Dioclesian o'er Rome bore sway,
`The Whig's idol, or the new-fashioned loyalty'
And that religion be; which was a crime before.
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When kings by republican maxims are made
`The twelve impossibilities'
Then Rome will submit to the Ottoman court.
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Soon as young Jotham saw his brethren's fate,
`Jotham's prophecy. Judges the 9. and 47th and the following verses...The parable'
And th'oak with sullen anger, shook his head.
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Hard is your fate since hither you are come,
`To the elector of Hanover'
Raving they can't do all the ill they would.
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Actions alike! Alike should be their shame
`Writ with a pencil in the Parliament House' [on Marlborough]
Hang but the last; the parable's complete.
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See the welcome fleet appears
`A song &c.'
Has vouchsaf'd to hear our prayer.
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When royal youth must we be blest again
`In imitation of the 5th ode of Horace'
And consecrate with mirth the Restoration Day.
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Bra' Ormonde now is o' the main
`A song to the tune of Catherine Mogey'
Will bless this happy nation.
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I sing of a meeting that happen'd of late
`On the peerage bill' [24 June 1719]
Yet he cares not a fig for his prerogative. | Which &c.
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As Amaryllis on the plain,
`A song, &c. The disconsolate shepherd'
As if he felt her pain.
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All languid and pale
`A song to the tune of The Louvre'
And so sin no more.
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What a cursed crew have we got
`A song'
Heaven send him quickly home.
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Whilst I was darling of your breast
`In imitation of the 9th ode of the 3d. book of Horace' [pr. 1719 (Foxon N304)]
'Twill serve us two, to bowse in.
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All in amaze, at what is past I stood,
`On the revolution'
And let the world turn which way 'twill for me.
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As soon as the wind came kindly about
`A song. To the tune of the abbot of Canterbury'
For the devil won't take you if I turn you away.
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Tho' George be gone over, yet to show his love to us,
`A ballad in honor of the present regency'
We must heartily pray, God would send home our king. | Which nobody &c.
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Give ear to my wonderful ditty,
`A ballad. &c.
As they did in the year forty-one. | With a &c.
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I sing the praise of heroes brave,
`A hymn. To the victory in Scotland' [25 June 1719]
'Tis very strange 'tween you and I.
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I never meddl'd with intrigues,
`A true touchstone of the times. The freethinker's confession' [pr. 1719 (Foxon T533)]
I never will do so no more.
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Oh who would boast himself of royal birth,
`An elegy on the King of Sweden'
You've lost a patron fit to imitate.
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Seven planets they do grace the skies,
`The seven wise men of England. To the tune of To all ye ladies &c.' [Oxford, Sunderland, Townshend, Cowper, Robert and Horace Walpole, Edgcumbe; pr. 1719 (Foxon S352)]
Perhaps may have them all again.
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Tune your pipes ye jolly swains
`On King James' marriage. To the tune of Would fate but make Belinda mine, &c.'
Smil'd and blest, smil'd and blest | The happy pair.
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Impeachments, prosecutions,
`King George his annals. 1714...1721'
Now poverty and tears.
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Let the Tories look big,
`A song on K[ing] G[eorge II]'s speech to the Parliament'
Yet trade it does flourish amain. | Brave &c.
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Welcome mighty King on shore
`The petition. &c.'
Tweedledum tweedle twee.
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In Leister fields a goodly fabric stands
`A poem. &c.'
Deliver us from so vile a generation.
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Aloud I heard the voice of fame
`On the birth of the prince' [the Young Pretender]
And trembling own their God.
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On a summer's day
`A song'
God bless our royal J[ame]s.
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Munster in a great chagrin,
`An new English song, to an old French tune' [on George I and his mistress the Duchess of Munster, later Duchess of Kendal]
The next who will have a regard. | To my la la &c.
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When York to heaven shall lift one single eye
`On the judges'
And [think] on love and politics no more.
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Let history record
[in later handwriting, inserted in a Jacobite volume, early 18th century]
You grand cock__
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I'll tell you a story, a story that new is
`On the bishop of Rochester. To the tune of the Archbishop of Canterbury'
You think him not yours, but the son of a whore. | Derry &c.
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Since your curiosity led you so far
`An epistle from Jack Sheppard to the Earl of Macclesfield on his being turned out'
Is the only favor your Lordship can hope.
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Quoth King Robin my ribbons I find are too few
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`On the Knights of the Bath' [1725]
Shall be qualified best for a dog in a string.
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Simon excepted then restor'd to grace
`An epistle to the Lord Guilford'
And take again thy prostituted dame.
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As Satan o'er Lincoln was looking one day
`A dialogue between the gentleman that looks over Lincoln and the gentleman [George I] on Bloomsbury steeple'
He'll be glad to come off half as well at Cambray.
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Let misers tremble o'er their gold,
`A song. To the tune of Catherine Oggy'
The royal race of S[tuar]ts.
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Happy the senate worthy of applause
`A panegyric on the Sanhedrim'
The traitor St. John's that vile informer.
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In a council of state
`The motto'
Tho' the other begone in a trice.
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God prosper long our gracious Will;
`A song to the tune to Chevy Chase'
We ne'er shall see such, more.
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Whither ye imperious Britons do you run,
`A poem'
Entails this curse, and will confound ye all.
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When shrugging quacks about me wait
`The Lord Wharton's will' [1715]
And leave her brats the world to range in.
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Kneller thy pencil take with shame
`Verses occasioned by Mr. Addison's poem on G[eorge]'s picture' [`Kneller, with silence...']
You drew a G[eorg]e, a Cromwell he.
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Go on brave Sirs in your immense design
`The Tories' advice to the secret cabal'
Hang but the latter: the parallel's complete.
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You are the trees, the bramble is the thing
`The explanation' [of `Soon as young Jotham...']
Abimelech the scoff of Christendom.
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Let England's church her sinking state deplore
`To the King's most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Tower of London, presented by the secret committee June the 10th. Introduced by Mat__tie'
Give laws at will, and by the sword command.
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God prosper long our noble king
`Safety and tranquility an excellent new ballad to [the] tune of Chevy Chase'
For this tranquility.
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I have been of late to London
`A song'
You shall keep your places still.
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Sir Robert in a late parade
`On Mr. Walpole on the day of his installment'
That crowds were ready there to kiss.
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Dear royal [James] I'll ne'er repent
`The loyalist'
To see a restoration.
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Minerva has vow'd since the bishops do slight her,
`On wisdom's defeat in a learned debate' [sometimes attr. Jonathan Swift; pr. 1725 (Foxon O230)]
And the first law of nature is self-preservation.
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To all our sisters now at Rome
`An epistle from the ladies of Drury, to those at Rome' [temp. George I]
You'll be welcome both to church and King.
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Britons now retrieve your glory
`A song'
Or you never can be blest.
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My masters give ear, and a story you'll hear
`On the Knights of the Bath'
So for decency there we will leave 'em.
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When a German white horse is turn'd to an ass,
`Prognostic'
The man have his mare, and each rebel a rope.
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Sir Robert to show what to merit is due
`Mr. Walpole's blue garter'
Odd numbers are lucky, may he soon have the third.
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All scribblers poor who write to eat
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773
`On Sir Robert Walpole'
That ever tries to part you.
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The subtle serpent to G[eorg]e B__ke said
`The contract' [between George I and the devil; with reference to Bolingbroke?]
Usurpers must expect whene'er they come.
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When Satan thought our Savior to betray
`On the same subject' [a contract between George I and the devil]
Satan had fled, and J[ame]s enjoy'd his own.
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Touch not your King the holy scripture teaches,
`Writ on the boards which encloses the church in Bloomsbury [with a statue of George I on its steeple]'
To see God's image on his Majesty.
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A story I'll tell you a story at large
`On the fall of the bed's tester on K[ing] G[eorge], and the D[uche]ss of M[un]st[e]r [later Duchess of Kendal]'
For he's out of their debt if he ow'd them a shame.
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If injur'd monarchs may their cause explore,
`A dialogue between K[ing] J[ames] and K[ing] W[illiam] on the Boyne the day before the battle'
For subjects are the surest guard of kings.
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A mother dead, and am I from the throne
`On the prince's being forbidden mourning for his mother'
Let Kendal, at her peril, mourn for thee.
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Moses held up his hand, his troop prevail'd
`On Sir R[ober]t W[al]p[o]le's gout'
When from his hand alone his forces live.
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Tho' some would give Sir Bob no quarter
`On Sir R[ober]t W[al]p[o]le'
We'll freely vote to hang him then.
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My commons and peers, I once hop'd but in vain
`G[eor]ge the 2nd's speech to his Parliament'
That their money's all safe__betwixt me and the Queen. | Which &c.
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Since England was England there never was seen
`On G[eor]ge and C[aroli]na'
We can't keep our pence, and the Protestant line.
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Sir Robert brags that he has sunk
`On Sir Robert Walpole'
As tinkers mend a kettle.
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My lord__I just receiv'd I own
`The liverymen's answer to a letter dated at Whitehall, Jan. the 22. 1727/8' [pr. 1728 (Foxon L202)]
Your b[isho]ps L[or]ds and Commons.
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Have you heard of a plot to destroy the poor K[in]g
`The masquerade plot'
As much in the pistols, as was in the plot. | Which &c.
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Stanley and Graham, you that liv'd and died
`On the much lamented death of James earl of Derwentwater who was beheaded Feb: the 14: 1715'
With lighted tapers that shall ever burn.
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The time is now approaching
`The honest voters'
To choose an honest man. | And [a-voting we] &c.
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Come listen, my friends, to a story so new
`Robin Hood and the Duke of Lancaster. To the tune of the abbot of Canterbury' [pr. 1727 (Foxon R232]
Oh no: quoth the Duke__I'd be robbing myself. | Derry &c.
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A robin who perching himself on a wall
`Honor and honesty displayed, in a dialogue between a robin on a wall and a frog in a pool' [on Sir Robert Walpole]
Being heartily stung with the frog's sharp replies.
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In the county of Norfolk that paradise land,
`The Norfolk lantern'
As may glare in the eyes of the whole British nation. | Which &c.
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Sir Ralph a simple rural knight
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`The progress of patriotism'
And lies with every man she meets.
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Spain is the cause of all
`On the Congress. 1728'
The devil will take all.
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Whilst thick to court transported Tories run
`To the right honble. Earl of Oxford upon his not appearing at court' [pr. 1727? (Foxon T392)]
Forgive his father__not forget thine own.
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Practice will make thy tow'ring muse experto,
`To Hurlothrumbo'
Thy next task be the praises of Roberto.
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On a fair mead, a dunghill lay,
`The oak, and dunghill. A fable...the dunghill's answer' [pr. 1728 (Foxon B499)]
Worthless to mix with dung despis'd.
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At length this oak all canker'd round
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`A sequel to the fable of the oak and the dunghill. In imitation of Sternhold and Hopkins addressed to a certain pretended senator, lately preferred for his political writings'
Thou shalt submit to mine.
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Ye poets take heed how ye trust to the muse
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`An excellent new ballad called a bob for the court to the tune of In the days of my youth in The beggar's opera'
And so there's an end to a bob for the court.
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Think not your friend Le Heup too free
`Le Heup's epistle to P. Frederick' [pr. 1727 (Foxon L94.8)]
To prove thyself true heir apparent.
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Once on a time in sunshine weather
Prior, Matthew, 1644_1721
`Truth and falsehood. A fable'
Hath gone stark naked ever since.
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But the false fox most kindly played his part
`Mother Hubbard's tale, where the fox is always represented as the emblem of craft and baseness is raised to be first minister of the kingdom of beasts'
That to give hugely to the box refus'd.
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Hail! Minister by paradoxes great
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`A panegyrick on Car[dinal]: [Robert] W[alpole]'
Thy stars, or genius, never match'd before.
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When Woolstone, late his blasphemies profest,
`On breaking Mist's press'
And get it quite repeal'd next Parliament.
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How vain Sir Knight is thy affected rage,
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`To a certain gentleman who takes the character of Cardinal Woolsey, to himself. An epigram'
Thy charity begins and ends at home.
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The god of Indies now 'tis plain
`Some truths in plain English, occasioned by the arrival of the Spanish galleons'
Since greedy statemen rule the roost.
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Albinus hence thy faults discern
`To Albinus. On the prodigal son'
And thou in peace thy days shall end.
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Good people give ear, and I'll tell you a story,
`The Pacific fleet'
So the scheme for the public is very well laid. | Which &c.
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The admiral prudently comes up to town
`On the fleet'
And her navy in Portsmouth, is the terror of Spain.
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Our merry men feasted, 'twas all that they did,
`On the fleet's being gone from Spithead'
Is sail'd in as safe as e'er it sail'd out.
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What a stately appearance they make now they're join'd,
`Another' [on the fleet]
They're safe in the front, as they are in the rear.
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Gaffer Grubb, full of cares a good trade for his son
`The hiss. A tale'
That noddle of thine will ne'er do for a forge.
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The King my master your ally
`The speech of a certain ambassador to the King of France, on the birth of a dauphin versified'
And H__ce, shall with Fleury vie.
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Great Jove! Look down on us poor Whigs
`Semper idem. Or the Whig's litany 1713'
Or have no god at all.
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A glorious new prophetic star
`An epigram'
But knoweth Robin Goodfellow.
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Rejoice ye good writers, your pens are set free,
Bath, William Pulteney, earl, 1684_1764
`The honest jury, or Caleb [D'anvers, i.e., Nicholas Amhurst] triumphant. To the tune of Packington's pound' [pr. 1729 (Foxon P1161)]
One good verdict more might secure all our laws.
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Prithee Sammy reflect, can there be such a thing
`To Dr. C__l, on his sermon Jan. 30th'
So round about R__n, the play is the same.
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That ship's sure reduc'd to a pitiful case,
`The Co[n]gr[e]ss of asses'
That as met, they parted asses.
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Thou perverse, adverse Caleb D'anvers,
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`On the treaty concluded at Seville'
To your own works. Sign'd Caleb D'anvers.
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Some faithless folks have been so bold
`On the peace'
He that says yes, deserves a rope.
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To all ye merchants now at land
`The sailors' song, or, Dunkirk restored. To the tune of To ye ladies' [pr. 1730 (Foxon S16)]
For Dunkirk's friends are Britain's foes.
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The peasant must attend the painful plow,
`The fatigues of a great man'
And drain their money from them by degrees.
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Pray Sir what news,
`The novelist'
Have got the devil and all.
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Most happy times are now foretold
`A prophecy'
And Wolston pray to Jesus.
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God prosper long our gracious King,
`On New Year's Day. Supposed by Mr. Cibber'
Descend from f[oo]l to f[oo]l.
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What this treaty will prove thou canst not divine,
`To Caleb D'anvers esq.' [i.e., Nicholas Amhurst]
His peace Robin holds. Prithee hold thine.
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Full forty years old England complain'd
`An historical ballad, humbly inscribed to the duumviri' [pr. 1730? (Foxon H252)]
For want of a halfpenny light.
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When first the duel reach'd the tender ear
`The Countess of Bristol to the Lord Hervey, after his duel with Mr. Pulteney'
Kiss'd her dear boy, and left him to repose.
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The town being full of confusion
`The Norfolk ballad'
Tho' treaties you look up with ease.
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The town being full of confusion
`The Norfolk ballad' [on the Treaty of Vienna; pr. 1731 (Foxon N159)]
They may rise, and you be De Witted.
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Have you not seen at country wake,
`To Caleb D'anvers esqr. [i.e., Nicholas Amhurst] a simile'
Old England must the piper pay.
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Yorkshire true sportsmen with a pack of hounds
`On the Norfolk hunting'
Run down whole kingdoms, with a pack of curs.
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Amongst British worthies in London's pantheon
`On the proposition for a statue designed for King W[illiam]'
Which would they worship, the man or the horse.
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The country, and the town,
`A song, to the tune of Dumb &c.'
I would open my throat. | And no more gentle reader be dumb &c.
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No longer quacks disparage
`The empiric'
To all that's great lays claim Sir.
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All folks who pretend to religion and grace
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`On the place of the damned' [pr. 1731 (Foxon S897)]
How happy for us, that it is not at home.
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See the close-fisted knight in form display,
`On the fable of the ass in the lion's skin'
With his friends Osborne and Squire Walsingham.
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With favor and fortune fastidiously blest
`On Sir R[obert] W[alpole]'
'Tis the cur-dog of Britain and spaniel of Spain.
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Good people pray for what is past
Were e'en as bad as they.
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To be merry and wise, Mr. Fog,
`To Fog. A ballad'
And show the biter bit.
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All laud and praise to W[alpo]le be
`To the praise of R[obert] W[alpole]'
But die in perfect health.
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When with politic sneer and with florid expression
`On the vote for the salt tax'
Are laugh'd at, at once both for beggars and fools.
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Good Robert king, we humbly pray
`The countryman's petition' [to Walpole]
That all they say are lies.
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A pensioner is a corrupted thing
`The pensioner'
And drudges his low worthless life away.
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In vain long parchment-pedigrees adorn
`On quality'
How comes a lion by an ass's ear.
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From stronger proofs, if I aright divine,
`Written on a window with a diamond'
You'll find them false and brittle as the glass.
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I am a saucy scribbler,
`A ballad'
Whilst he keeps open door. | And begging we may go....
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Folks talk of supplies
`Britain excised. Part the first' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B459]
He'll drive all such monsters to Hell. | Horse foot and dragoons....
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How blest the days of Saturn's golden reign
`Golden age'
And Jack the advice to learn did not dispair.
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That the excise laws may not be extended
`The city's toast'
And the authors of the new scheme may be suspended.
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Why do the people rage and foam
`An hymn, to a psalm tune'
Shall in short time be free.
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Ye knaves and ye fools, maids widows and wives,
`Britannia excised, part the second' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B462)]
Shall have their free choice to hang drown or break.
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Come Britons your case forget to implore
`The British merchants' toast'
Attend on the glorious two hundred and four.
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Three Wills with great and different talent born
`On the three celebrated namesakes' [William Windham, William Shippen, William Pulteney]
Can stem the torment of the people's state.
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Reading the gospel by our Lord, we find
`Occasioned by the bishops' having all but one voted against the proceedings of the South Sea directors'
Among twice twelve that seems an honest man.
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A rich country farmer possest of a mill
`The Norfolk miller excised'
Get what you can Robin my family's large.
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'Tis done! Thou awful shade of Britain rise
`A copy of a paper dropped in the House of Commons upon the excise scheme' [pr. 1733 (Foxon O203)]
Still has he honest been, still faithful just and true.
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I am a sturdy beggar
`The London merchants' triumph' [pr. 1733 (Foxon L239)]
No ribbon but a halter. | And to Tyburn they would go....
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Go on little Cap: stick close to Sir Bob
`On reading a certain speech [by Sir Abraham Elton] which ended with the terrible word Destruction' [pr. 1715? (Foxon O184)]
Are sure in Destruction to end.
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Burleigh and Walsingham in former days
`An epigram in praise of modern unity'
Unite them__how__to hate and scorn the knight.
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I am a poet by my trade,
`A new crop of blockheads. Or the poetical harvest home'
Has furnish'd such a harvest home. | With a fa &c.
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Talk no more of the wars or the Polander's king,
`The merry patriot. A ballad'
That we ne'er could endure to be led by the nose. | Derry &c.
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In times long since gone
`Upon touching for the King's evil'
Since they're such as can never be cur'd.
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Would you see three nations bubbl'd
`On King James the 2d'
And drop plenty down in rain.
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What different follies govern human fate
`[preface to] The court monkeys'
Here vulgar fools prevail, here apes of state.
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Britons behold the product of your isle
`[preface to] A collection of state flowers'
Then judge the vicious growth, and guess the men.
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Since various subjects various pens employ
`The court monkeys' [printed 1734 (Foxon C468)]
Than all the conquests he had gain'd before.
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Whilst fierce Bellona threatn'd loud alarms,
`A collection of state flowers' [pr. 1734 (Foxon C285)]
For gold still brings its value from the mine.
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Let great men loll ingloriously in state
`The state weather-cocks' [pr. 1734 (Foxon S728)]
And this made Sidrophel secure you his.
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From bad health and bad weather and parties' dull strife,
`The true Englishman's wish'
And I ask for no more within the four seas.
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When grave divinity thought fit
`The review, or, the case fairly stated on both sides' [pr. 1734 (Foxon T324)]
His Lordship with a lady's mien.
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Most gracious Sir, see here before you
`The city address'
And prove a chip off the right block.
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In Charles the Second's [golden] days
`The true turncoat, or, the vicar of Bray'
Except the times should alter. | And this is law, &c.
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I never din'd with Dennis or with Pope,
`Persius Scaramouche. By way of dialogue betwixt Mr. D'anvers [Nicholas Amhurst], and orator [John] Henley, by Griffith Morgan D'anvers M. A. formerly of Tr. College...in imitation of the first satire of Perseus' [pr. 1734 (Foxon D42)]
Go home and dine, and then pick up a wench.
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In the days of yore, when statesmen bore
`A song'
To have your head fix'd on a pole Sir.
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'Twas in the town of London
`The mayor and the mob. To the tune of Royal race was Shinkin' [pr. 1742? (Foxon M154)]
And lead the mob to Hell, Sir.
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Whoe'er he be that to a taste aspires
Bramston, James, 1694?_1744
`The man of taste' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B396)]
Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool and sot.
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In the island of Britain, I sing of a knight
`The knight and the prelate' [pr. 1734 (Foxon K97)]
For no rope yet was made that could tie up a plum.
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To all those liv'rymen of London,
`Lord Wharton's puppies to the tune of To all ye ladies now at land' [pr. 1734 (Foxon L262)]
As did these whelps, just so will you. | With &c.
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There are, I scarce can think it, but am told
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`A satire the 1st from the 2nd [book] of Horace in a dialogue between...and his learned council' [pr. 1733 (Foxon P886)]
My lords the judges laugh, and you're dismiss'd.
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Here's a health to the glorious twenty-four,
`On the number of members who voted against the late bill of excise being the same with the amount of the first eight square numbers in arithmetic...'
Than the mystical sum of two hundred and four.
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See how a crafty vile projector picks
`The projector'
And daily courts the silly dame for more.
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As Sh__ was pleading for bribes, and for pensions,
`Epigram'
The man like the boy souses o'er head and ears.
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Dullness, to thee I consecrate my lays,
`An address to dullness'
And Io paeans rend the vaulted skies.
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What, and how great, the virtue and the art,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`The 2nd. satire of the 2nd book of Horace' [pr. 1734 (Foxon P893)]
Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still.
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Pimps, poets, wits, Lord Fanny, Lady Mary,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`Sober advice from Horace'
This fourth, let L__l Jeffrys, Onslow tell.
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Shut, shut your door, good Jack! Fatigu'd I said,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`An epistle from...to Dr. Arbuthnot' [pr. 1734 (Foxon P802)]
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n.
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O ye Commons and Peers who are bound by your pay
`On K[ing] G[eorge]'s speech to the Parliament'
When I've nothing to ask, and you nothing to spend.
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Nothing so true as what you once let fall,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`Characters of women. An epistle to a lady' [pr. 1735 (Foxon P917)]
To you gave sense, good humor and a poet.
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A set of phrases, learnt by rote
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`The furniture of a woman's mind' [pr. 1750? (Foxon S857)]
So holla boys, God save the King.
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After venting all my spite,
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`An epistle to a lady who desired me to make verses on her' [pr. 1733 (Foxon S841)]
I to laugh, and you grow wise.
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p. 165 (`on Sir R[obert] W[alpole]')
Whilst Britain destitute of aid
`On Farinelli'
Extracting gold from leaden brains.
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The sailor sighs as sinks his native shore,
Rogers, Samuel, 1763_1855
`The sailor. An elegy'
And clasps the maid he singled from the world.
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