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POEMS and other pieces, chiefly satirical. Most are dated, the extreme dates, some but not all of which-seem to be those rather of copying than of composition, being 1687 and Feb. 1711 [17121. There are many references to the Kit-Cat Club and its members, but the tone of most of the poems is Tory rather than Whig; only towards the end of the volume does a definite bias on the opposite side appear. All seem to be in the same hand. The majority are published or occur in other MS. collections, but variant readings are not infrequent. The following occur in Poems on Affairs of State (1703-1707), most of them also in A New Collecton of Poems relating to State Affairs (1705), in his copy of which (British Museum press-mark, C. 28. e. 15) Pope has inserted the names of several of the supposed authors :-(a) "A Letter from I. B. to [Col.] H[enry] Heveningham occasioned by his 2 last Letters : May 1698"; at the end "June 1697." Beg. "Oh Harry cans't thou find no subject fitt." ii, p. 255. f. 1 ;-(b) "A Ballad To the tune of Packingtons Pound" ; 1698. Beg. "When Burnet perceived that the beautifull Dames." iii, p. 372. f. 3 ;-(C) [On William III's horse Sorrell ; Mar. 170.5. Beg. "Illustrious Steed who should the Zodiac grace." ii, p. 323 (Pope, New Collection p. 485, "By B[evil] Higgons"). f. 10 b ;-(d) "The Mourners"; May 1702. Beg. "In Sable weeds the Beauxs and Bells Appear." ii, p. 320 (Pope, New Collection, p. 483, "By B. Higgons"). f. 11 ;-(e) "On the Capitation 169 6/7. Beg. "Last year in the Spring." ii, p. 324. f. 11 b ;-(f) "Advice to a Painter"; 1697. Beg. "What hand what art can form the artfull peice" ii, p. 428. f. 12 b ;-(g) "The Golden Age retreiv'd"; Jan. 1702. Beg. "Sicilian Muse begin a loftyer flight". ii, p. 422 (Pope, New Collection, p. 496, "By W[illiam] Walsh, Esq.," and it is printed in Walsh's works). f. 17 ;-(h) No title, beg. "Sicilian Goddesse whose prophetick tongue"; Feb. 170 2/3. ii, p. 438. f. 23 b; -(i) "The Prophecy"; June 1703. Beg. "When great Nassau is dead and gone." iv, p. 58. f. 27 b ;-(j) "On Orpheus and Signorina Margarita," [Francesea Margherita de l'Épine, the singer] ; July 1703. Beg. "Hail tunefull paire! say by what Wondrous Charms." iii, p. 407. f. 30;-(k) Five Kit-Cat Club toasts; Nov. 1703. Beg. "When Jove to Ida did the Gods invite" ; cf. art. (n) below. The second ("Tho Hydes resistlesse graces are") and the last (Mrs. Dunch, beg. "The Mysterie of Toasting is Divine") not among those in iii, p. 398. f. 30 b ;-(l) "Upon Mr. Wallers Verses on the Lady Sunderland by my Ld Hallifax" [Charles Montague, Baron, in 1714 Earl of, Halifax]. Beg. "Vandyke had Colours Force and Art." iii, p. 396. f. 31 b ;-(m) "Lady Mary Churchill" [one of the Kit-Cat toasts] ; Nov. 1703. Beg. "Fairest and latest of the Beauteous Race." iii, p. 399. f. 32 b ;-(n) Kit- Cat toasts ; Nov. 1703. The collection shows both omissions and additions as compared with that in iii, p. 398 (in New Collection, p. 545 ff., Pope identifies some of the authors). f. 36 ;-(o) "The History and fall of the Conformity Bill. . . to the tune of the Lady's fall etc." ; Jan. 170 3/4. Beg. "God blesse our [gracious] soveraigne Ann." iii,p.425(Pope,New Collection,p.557, "Certainly written by Mr. Congreve "). f. 41 ;-(p) "A Catalouge of Books to be Sold by Auction att the Duke. of Malboroughs Lodgings at St. James's on Sunday the 25th of July 1703" ; Jan. 170 3/4. iii, p. 432, with several differences. Here the names are given in full. f. 45 b -(q) "On the Sword given by the K[ing] of Sp[ain] to the General]" [Marlborough]; Feb. 170 3/4. Beg. "Accept My Lord of this small Glittering thing." iv,p.17. f.50b;-(r)"The Seven Wise Men"; Feb.170 3/4. Beg."Seven Sages in our happy Isle are seen." iv, p. 28. f. 51 b ;-(s) "A Copy of a Letter from Captain Charlton to Mrs. Palavichini [Pallavicini] after Sr Christopher Hales [2nd Baronctl had whipt her. March : 1704." Beg. "Madam I've heard how surly knight." Only in New Collection, p. 567. f. 55;-(t) "The French Kings Cordial" ; Dec. 1704. Beg. "I think I shall never dispair." iv, p. 109. f. 56 b. Of the remaining contents the chief are :-(i) "On P[ortland the E[arl ?]" 169 5/6. Beg. "When God to punish Adams sons inclin'd." f. 4;-(ii) No title [on a peer going to Rome]; 1687. Beg. "Attend yee good people all I pray." f. 4 b ;-(iii ' ) "La Flote Triomphante"; list of toasts, represented as ships of war ; Nov. 1701. f. 6 (iv) "The Oath of the Tost by Mr Congreve." Beg. "By Bacchus and by Venus Swear." Not in Congreve's works. f. 7 ;-(v) Madrigal En faveur de la France et L'Espagne (beg. "Contre quinte et quatorze on-n'a jamais beau jeu") and Reponse sur les meme rime's " (beg. "Contre quinte et quatorze on peu fair un beau jeu") ; Dec. 1701. f. 7 b ;-(vi) "Votes" [at the Punch Club]. a satirical skit in prose ; March 1701. f. 8 ;-(vii) "A Ballad to the tune of A Soldier and a Saylor"; 1699. Beg. "A Dean and Prebendary." T. D'Urfey, Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi, 1720, p. 213, with the title "The Battle-Royal." f. 15 b ;-(viii) "Celia to Damon," by [Matthew] Prior; Feb. 170 2/3. Beg. "What can I say? What arguments can prove." Printed in Prior's works. f.20b;-

(ix) No title [on Marlborough]; Mar. 170.2/3. Beg. "The Queen a message to the Senate sent." Also in Harley MS. 7315, f. 303 (where it is attributed to Sir Charles Hedges [d. 17141, with the reference, "D.P. v, 2: p. 436"), Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 21. f. 26 b; -(x) No title [on William III]; Apr. 1703. Beg. "When Pride provck 't old Satan to rebell." Also in Add. MS. 29981, f. 73 b. f. 27 ;-(xi) "Epitaph"; Sept. 1703. Beg. "Cy gist St Evremont [Charles de Marguetel de St.-Denis, Seigneur de St.-Évremond] de celebre Memoir." f . 30 b ;-(xii) "The Request" ; Nov-. 1703. Beg. "I fain would know which is the wiser man." f. 31 b (xiii) "The Dutchesse of Rutland on Ld Hallifax's Verses" (art. I above). Beg. "The Beauteous Sunderland much brighter shines." f. 32 ;-(xiv) "On the Alteration of Lady Sunderland" ; couplet, beg. "O fading beauty which so soon art gone." f. 32 b ;-(xv) "To a lady more Cruel than Fair by Mr Vanbrook [John Vanbrugh, knighted 1714] on Lady F r"; Nov. 1703. Beg. "Why with disdain do you refuse." Tonson's Miscellany Poems, 1716, v, p. 150. f. 32 b ;-(xvi) No title [on Sir David Hamilton]; Apr. 1703. Beg. "From easing female sex in pain." Also in Add. MS. 28101, f. 47. f. 33 b ;-(xvii) "Mr Adderly on his looking thro' his Perspective Glasse on Mrs Brudenel and her having one patch on"; Dec. 1703. Beg. "To weak my eyes on her to gaze." f. 35 b;-(xviii) "Lady Wharton Reverse," a reply to the first of the Kit-Cat toasts. Beg. O Doctor your mistaken 'twas not att Mount Ida." f. 40 b (xix) "Delia," an elegy for Mrs. Tempest [by William Walsh, in whose works it appears]; Dec. 1703. Beg. "Yee gentle Swains who passe your days and nights." f. 47 ;-(xx) "On the New Medall"; Mar. 170 3/4. Beg. "The Glory of our English Arm,; retreiv'd." Also in Harley MS. 6914, f. 107, Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 21. f. 50;-(xxi) "On the Ladv who can excell in what she pleases"; Mar. 1701. Beg. "Th' inspiring Muses and the God of Love." f. 50 b ;-(xxii) "On Mrs Chetwin" [? Mary, wife of Walter Chetwynd, in 1717 lst Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven]; Apr. 1704. Beg. " What whimsical vicissitudes of Fate." -f. 54;-

(xxiii) "A Circular letter to the Du[c]h[ess] of Bolton" ; Dec. 1704. Attributed to "Dr Gath" [i.e. Samuel Garth, in whose works the poem appears]. Beg. "Cease rural Conquests, and set free your Swains." f. 56 ;-(xxiv) "An English Padlock," by [Matthew] Prior; Jan. 170 4/5. Beg. "Mis Danae when fair and young." f. 59; -(xxv) "To the Lady Sunderland"; Tunbridge 1705. Beg. "Had Alexander your bright charms survey'd." f.61;-(xxvi)"Moderation or the Wolves and the Sheep"; Aug.1705. Beg."The Sheep a people void of Strife." Also in Egerton MS. 924, f.29b. f.61;-

(xxvii) "The Tack"; 1705. Beg. "The Globe of Earth on which wee dwell is tackt unto the Poles." T. Hearne's Collections (1885), i, p. 54. f. 62 b;-(xxviii) "On the D[uke] of S[hrewsbury] 1705." Beg. "O Yes henceforward sit omnibus notum." Op. cit., i, p. 140. f . 63 ;-(xxix) No title, beg. "Good H[alifax] and Pious W[harton] crv." Op. cit., i, p. 132. f. 63 ;-(xxx) "Upon Mrs Digby's; coming to Towne"; Dec. 1705. Beg. "Hence London Dames into the Country run." Followed by "The Answer"; Jan. 170 5/6. Beg. "Who'ere thou art that dare'st with lying Lays." Both in Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 58. f. 63 b;-(xxxi) "The 4th Ode 2nd Book of Horace Ld Granvile to the E[arl] of Searadale" [by Nicholas Rowe; see his Works, 1747, ii, p. 307, where "Griffin" appears instead of Granvile Jan. 170 5/6. Beg. "Doe not most Fragrant Earl disclaim." f. 65 b;-(xxxii) "A Prophecy by the E[arl] of Dorset found amongst his papers upon Mrs Roch," etc. Beg. "Like a true Irish Merlyn that misses her flight." Not printed in Dorset's works. f . 66 b ;-(xxxiii) "Alexander the Great playd by Gentlemen," a skit in prose. f. 66 b ;-(xxxiv) "Prisca's Advice to Novinda" ; Apr. 1707. Beg. "Trust not false man th' experienc'd Prisca crys"; with a key to the characters at the end. A longer version is printed in Tonson's Miscellany Poems, 1716, vi, p. 239. f . 68 ;-(xxxv) "St. Albans" [on the Duchess of Marlborough's visit to Duke Humphrey's tomb]; May 1707. Beg. "When S[ara]h led by fancy fate or scorne." Also in Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 22 b, etc. f . 68 b ;-(xxxvi) "Toast of Great Brittain for the year 1708"; a list of ruling toasts. f. 69 b ;-(xxxvii) "On Mrs Biddy Floyd" (see F. Elrington Ball, Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, i, p. 134, etc.); June 1708. Beg. "When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat." Tonson's Miscellany Poems, 1716, vi, p. 113. f. 70;-(xxxviii) No title, beg. "All things went well in Church and State"; July 1708. Also in Lansdowne MS.852, f.39b. f.70b;-(xxxix) "The Frenchman's Lamentation . . . to the Tune of I'll tell the Dick"; July 1708. Attributed to "Mr Congreve," but not included in his works. Beg. "Yee Commons and Peers." Tonson's Miscellany Poems, 1716, vi, p. 250. f. 71 b ;-(xl) Dialogue in verse between [Jacob] Tonson, [Thomas] Hopkins, [Richard ?] Topham [translator of Demosthenes, etc.], and Lord Halifax, all but Topham members of the Kit-Cat Club n.d., but two additional verses at the end dated July 1708. Beg. "Since Cob gives the Feast." Printed in Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Cat Club (1821), p. 230 and attributed to Arthur Maynwaring. f. 74 ;-(xli) "Duke Humphreys Answer" [see art. xxxiv above]; July 1708. Beg. "The. Royal Ghost rais'd from his peacefull Urn." Also in Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 23. f. 76 ;-(xlii) "A Ballad dedicated to the Worshipfull Mr [Richard] Estcourt [1668-1712] of the Noble Order of the Garter" July 1708. Beg. "I'll tell the Estcourt a pleasant tale." f. 77 (xliii) "A's Lamentation for the loss of H[arley] translated from the Greek of Homer left by Mr [William] Walsh imperfect"; Nov. 1708. Beg. "Now Phoebus did with frowns the World survey." Not in Walsh's works. Also in Lansdowne MS. 852, f. 148, with the same attribution. f. 79 b ;-(xliv) "On the Majority in this Parliament to the Duke of Marlborough." Beg. "Great Hannibal, who shook the Capitol." f. 80 b;-(xlv) "On Mr Hopkins; and Topham [see art. xl] made at the Du[c]h[ess] of Marl[borough's] by Mr Mann"; Nov. 1708. Beg, "Madam take Care." f. 81 ;-(xlvi) No title, beg. "Ben Hoadly, Julian Johnson, Titus Oats"; 23 Jan. 170.9/10 A Collection of Poems, &c. for and against Dr. Sacherverell, iv, 1711, p. 6. f. 82;-(xlvii) No title, beg. " Invidious Whiggs since you have made the Boast"; March 170 9/10 . The first four lines of the poem "Upon the burning of Mr. Burgess Pulpit" which appears in op. cit., i, 1710, p. 7. f. 82 b ;-(xlviii) "Fair Warning"; Apr. 1710. Beg. "Madam look out Your Title is Arraign'd." Op. cit., iii, 1710, p. 22. f. 83;-(xlix) Two epigrams, on the Whig side; May, June 1710. Beg. "Yee Ladies and Damsells pray why all this Bustle," and "Wake drousey Brittain and prevent your Doom." f. 83 b ;-(l) Epigram, Dec. 1710, beg. "Our Fathers took Oathes as husbands take wives." Also in Add. MS. 24984, f. 24 b. f. 84 (li) "A Ballad made by the Late Earl of Dorset. . . . Adapted to the present Time"; March 17 10/11. Beg. "To all you Ladys now at Land"; the song by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl, with alterations. f . 84 b ;-(lii) Couplet "To the D[uke] of M[arlborough]" ; 15 Apr. 1711. Beg. "Tho Thanks were grudg'd you for your past Sucsesse." f. 86 b ;-(liii) "Ballad"; Apr. 1711. Beg. "Of all the Handsome Ladies." D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1720, vi, p. 348. In Lansdowne MS. 852.1 f. 57 b attributed to "Mr Rowe," but not printed in his works. f.86b;-(liv)"A New Protestant Littany"; L[on]d[o]n, Feb. 1711[12]. Beg. "From a dozen of Peers made all at a start." f . 88. Paper; ff. i + 88. Quarto. Early xviii cent. On f. i is the note Nov : the 17th 1701 Pret[iol II: 6 d Lond[on]." Presented by Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart.