Add MS 78522

Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccclv. (ff. 212). Miscellaneous occasional verse, partly political, religious and amatory; temp. William III [1694-1702] - 1809, n.d. Mostly copies. Partly printed. The arrangement is roughly chronological by date of composition (ff. 1-184), with some pieces of uncertain date reserved to the end (ff. 185-211). The writers include Isaac Hawkins Browne, Mary Chandler, George Granville, Alexander Pope, Horace Walpole, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Edward Young. Also included are:

1. ff. 2, 2v. ‘Mr Weedon’: ‘Rogers Resolution to hit himselfe in at My Lady [Betty] Liles birth day’, beg. ‘’Sheartly wounds, I’ll not to ploughing not I sir’; circa late 17^th cent. Attribution from docket (f. 3v).

2. ff. 4, 4v. Lament of an actor on the decline in the behaviour of theatre audiences, beg. ‘Tis not five yeares since this was a sweet place’; circa late 17^th-early 18^th centt. Imperfect.

3. ff. 6v, 7. Short political fable beg. ‘Once on a time some friends did agree’, along with two extempore riddles composed by a lady; circa late 17^th-early 18^th cent.

4. ff. 9-12. ‘The Praise of tom iuggins [Cook of Xt Church who kept a Publick Cooks shop in Oxford] Heroi-comick Verse [by an Undergraduate of Oxford]’; circa late 17^th-early 18^th centt. Words within square brackets added in a second hand.

5. ff. 22-23v. Tory satire entitled ‘Advice to a Painter’, beg. ‘What hand what skill can forme y^e artfull Piece’, docketed ‘1698’.

6. ff. 50-51. Satirical verses entitled ‘The Walker’, beg. ‘Nigh where the Baths pour out their sweaty Streams’; temp. Anne.

7. ff. 102, 103. [?Abel Evans, D.D. (d.1737)]: Humorous poem headed ‘The Wooden Age. Suppos’d to be wrote by D^r Evans’, beg. ‘Since the Metallick Ages all are past’.

8. ff. 137-138. ‘Introduction to the second Book of public virtue; a Poem, address’d to the prince of wales’, beg. ‘Of Commerce, of the Merchant’s ventrous toils’; circa 1745-1757. Fair copy with revisions. Book I of George Spiltimber’s poem was published in 1745 (Foxon S651).

9, ff. 152-157v. Poems by a young lady, as ‘submitted to y^e Judgement of Mr. Dodsley, if he designs further to add to his Collection…’ (f.154); circa 1755-1758.

10. ff. 204, 205. Lament ‘To Silvia’, beg. ‘Since Silvia, brightest of Liburnian Dames’; n.d. Fair copy with revisions in a different hand.

11. ff. 210-211. ‘Verses [By a member of the Committee in pencil] to be recited at Grenwich’, extolling charity, beg. ‘If it be truly said, the heaven born mind’; circa 1809 (watermark).