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POEMS, political and humorous, with a few prose pieces, chiefly of the reign of Queen Anne. Eng., Lat. and Fr. Among them are the following: 1. "The Swan Tripe Club in Dublin, a satyr dedicated to all those who are true friends to Her Majesty," etc.; Apr. 1706. [Printed in 1706. Dublin. Quarto.] f. 3.

2. "The Mock Mourners, a Satyr by way of Elegy on King William" [III.], f. 12 b.

3. "A true Copy of the last will and testament of Mr. Benjamin Dod, Citizen and Linnen-Draper, who lately fe11 from his horse and dy'd soon after. 1706." Prose. [Printed in 1716. London. Folio.] f. 27 b.

4. "Epitaphe de M^r de S. Evremont," with translation into English, f. 32 b.

5. A funeral poem to the memory of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel, with "a short description of the procession at his interment in Westminster Abbey, by William Pittis, late Fellow of New College, Oxford and dedicated to his disconsolate Lady. 1708." f. 51 b.

6. "Honesty in Distress, but reliev'd by no party," a tragedy in three acts, with prologue and epilogue, [by Edward Ward,] f. 56.

7. "The Vanity of Upstarts, or an Honest Enquiry into ignoble Greatness. An ode, 1709," f. 67 b.

8. "Belisarius [the Duke of Marlborough] and Zariana [his Duchess], a dialogue;" 1710, f. 73.

9. "A great noise about nothing, or the church's danger. A satyr;" 1705, f. 85.

10. "A country tale," a satirical poem on the great personages of State in 1712, f. 92. ll. Copy of "an affidavit about the firing of London," sworn by Thomas Roe; 30 July, 1670, f. 101 b.

12. "A breif Narrative of a Stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the Satanical Saints of these reforming times opened by Serjeant Maynard at the Tryall of Thomas Tong," etc.; 11 Dec. 1662. Prose. f. 103.

13. "The parting of Sireno and Diana, Englished by Sir Car[r] Scrope," [Bart.]; an eclogue. [Printed, in Dryden's Miscellany Poems; London, 1692-1702. Vol. I. p. 171.] f. 109. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto.