Harley MS 6914

Quarto manuscript volume containing a miscellany of mostly satirical poetry with some prose articles.

Contents:

• ff. 1-2v: ‘A New Ballad by Ld. Rochester to the tune of Chevy Chase’. First line: ‘The Parsons all keep whores’.
• ff. 1*-6*v (these are interleaved with folios 1-6): Table of contents.
• ff. 2v: ‘Dialogue by Lord Rochester [John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester] (between Nelly, Portsmouth, King, and People’. First line: ‘When to the King I bid goodmorrow’.
• ff. 3-3v: ‘Song, by Lord Rochester’. First line: ‘Oh! What damd age do we live in’.
• f. 3v-4: ‘Song, by Lord Vaughan [John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery?]’. First line: ‘Theres no such thing as good or evil’.
• ff. 4-5v: ‘Duke of Buck’s Litany’. First line: ‘From a proud, sensual, atheistical life’. Inscribed next to the title in pencil is ‘BH. Vol: 1, p 49’.
• ff. 6-6v: ‘Ballad on Betty Felton’. First line: ‘Of all quality whores modest Betty for me’.
• ff. 6v-8: ‘A New Ballad, Tune I am ye Duke of Norfolk’. First line: ‘I am a senceless thing with a hey with a hey’.
• f. 8v: ‘Against a Wife’. First line: ‘The Clog of all Pleasures ye Luggage of Life’.
• f. 8v: ‘King Charles praising the Translation of the Psalmes; Lord Rochester shows how they run’. First line: ‘God bless our good and gracious King’.
• ff. 9-9v: ‘On the Dutchess of Cleveland’. First line: ‘Cleveland was much to blame’.
• ff. 10-10v: ‘Song’. First line: ‘Yee London Ladds be sorry’.
• ff. 10v-11v: ‘Song’. First line: ‘Since you will needs be kind to me’.
• ff. 11v-15v: ‘Dildoides by Mr [Samuel] Butler’. First line: ‘Such a sad fate prepare to hear’.
• ff. 16-17: ‘Querys. 1679’. First line: ‘Would you send Kate to Portugal’.
• ff. 17-18v: ‘The Answer’. First line: ‘I would be glad to see Kate going’.
• ff. 18v-20v: ‘Song’. First line: ‘How our good King does papists hate’. Inscribed next to the title in pencil is ‘vid. BH, 68.D.25 Pt.1. p,144. & 68.C.25. p, 102. & Vol.3 p31. & D.P. vol.1. p189’.
• f. 21: ‘Catch by Lord Buckhurst [Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset]’. First line: ‘When Rebells first push’d at the crown’.
• ff. 21-21v: ‘To the Post Boy. By Lord Rochester 1674’. First line: ‘Son of a whore God damn you can you tell’. Inscribed next to the title in pencil is ‘DP. V2. 20.’.
• f. 21v: ‘Song’ [or Acrostic]. First line: ‘A Knight delights in deeds of arms’.
• ff. 22-22v: ‘Song’. First line: ‘At the sight of my Phillis, from every part’.
• ff. 22v-23: ‘Song’. First line: ‘I once was a Dotard, which wrought me much evil’.
• ff. 23-24: ‘The Statesman’s Academy, erected in the Tower, at the proper Cost of the house of Peers; where, at present, inhabit 4 of the best Masters of their Time’. First line: ‘He that would learn to fence for his life’.
• f. 24: ‘On the Duchess of Cleveland’. First line: ‘She was so exquisite a whore’.
• f. 24v: ‘On the Duchess of Portsmouth’s Picture: By [John] Dryden’. First line: ‘Hadst thou but lived in Cleopatria’s age’.
• ff. 24v-27v: ‘The Lady’s March’. First line: ‘Stamford’s Countess led the Van’.
• ff. 27v-29: ‘From Sir Roger Martin to Duke of Monmouth. Tune have at thy coat old woman’. First line: ‘Twas a foolish Fancy Jemmy’.
• ff. 29v-30v: ‘Advice in a Letter to Mr Francis Villiers. Tune heres a health to Betty. 1682’. First line: ‘Leave off your Ogling Francis’.
• ff. 30v-31v: ‘Portsmouth’s Return’. First line: ‘Our Monarchs Whore from France is come’.
• ff. 31v-32v: ‘An Historicall Ballad’. First line: ‘Much has been said of strumpets of yore’.
• ff. 32v-34v: ‘A Ballad; Tune Chiviot Chace’ First line: ‘Come all youths that yet are free’.
• ff. 35-36: ‘The Wellcome’. First line: ‘When Noble Prince Geo[rge]’.
• f. 36v: ‘Dialogue between G[eorge] & A[nne], translated’. First line: ‘While I in the camp was playing my part’.
• ff. 37-37v: ‘The Cushion dance at Court. 1683. Tune of Joan Sanderson. Enter Jeffery Ailworth followd by the King & the Duke in his hand’. First line: ‘This trick of Trimming is a fine thing’.
• ff. 38-40: ‘Song’. First line: ‘There’s Sunderland the Tory’.
• ff. 40-42v: ‘Satir to Julian 1682’. First line: ‘Send forth dear Julian all thy books’.
• ff. 42v-46: ‘A Balad call’d Lamentable Lory’. First line: ‘The youth was beloved in the spring of his life’.
• f. 46v: ‘Epitaph on Lamentable Lory by [John] Dryden. 1687’. First line: ‘Here lyes a Creature of indulgent fate’.
• ff. 47-47v: ‘A Ballad from Tunbridge 1682’. First line: ‘To Tunbridge I went’.
• ff. 47v-48: ‘[Charles Sackville, 6th Earl] Dorset’s Lamentation for Moll Howard’s absence’. First line: ‘Dorset no gentle nymph can find’.
• ff. 48-48v: ‘My Opinion’ [by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl Dorset]. First line: ‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’.
• ff. 49-51v: ‘Satir in its own Colors 1682’. First line: ‘A Countess of fame’. Inscribed above to the title in pencil is ‘DP V3. 79’.
• ff. 51v-52: ‘Norfolks Fall 1685’. First line: ‘Alas I now am weary grown’.
• ff. 52-52v: ‘A Song on Basset’ [by Sir George Etherege]. First line: ‘Let Equipage & dress despair’.
• ff. 53-54v: ‘A Merry New Ballad on Prince Perkin’. First line: ‘Our Rebell party of late’.
• ff. 55-56v: ‘Ballad: Tune, Takeing of snuff is the mode at court’. First line: ‘The widdows and maids’.
• ff. 57-60: ‘Vindication: 1st Part; 1686’. First line: ‘Since scandall flies thick’.
• ff. 60v-63: ‘Vindication: 2nd Part’. First line: ‘Since you have forgot’.
• ff. 63v-64v: ‘A New Ballad or truth needs no vindication’. First line: ‘If devout Paul & Mary’.
• f. 65: ‘An Epistle from Mrs Mathewes to Will Richards’. First line: ‘Dear Sweet Richards William’.
• f. 65: First line: ‘O Monachi vostri stomachi’.
• ff. 65v-66: ‘Oliverus Redevivus, 1687’. First line: ‘Let Oliver now be forgotten’.
• ff. 66v-67v: ‘The Prophesy, 1687’. First line: ‘When the King leaves off Sidley & keeps to ye Queen’.
• ff. 67v-73: ‘Sardanapalus; Ode by Oldham’. First line: ‘Happy great Prince & so much happyer thou’.
• ff. 73-73v: ‘A Dream. Lord Rochester’. First line: ‘Twas when the sable mantle of the night’.
• ff. 73v-76: ‘An Essay of Scandall’. First line: ‘Of all ye plagues with which this world abounds’.
• ff. 76-79v: ‘The Statesman’s Almanac: August 1688. Whereby it appears that a Parliament cannot meet in any of the old months by reason of some unlucky prognostications and a proposeall for mending the calender Humbly offerd to ye packers of ye next Parliament’ [Including a Prologue and Epilogue]. First line: ‘The talk up and down’
• f. 80: ‘On Mrs Anne Roche when she lost Sir John Daws: By the Earl of Dorset’. First line: ‘Like a true Irish Merlin that has lost her flight’.
• f. 80: ‘Woodstock’. First line: ‘In days of yore within this Bower’.
• f. 80v: ‘Chanson’. First line: ‘Le Dieu qui repand sa lumiere’.
• ff. 81-81v: ‘Riddle’. First line: ‘No longer blame those on the banks of Nile’.
• f. 81v: ‘Radcliffe’s Opinion’. First line: ‘Cloe in Love grown nice’.
• f. 82: First line: ‘Cloe the brightest of her sex’.
• f. 82: [By Charles Sackville, 6th Earl Dorset]. First line: ‘Phillis the fairest of loves foes’.
• f. 82v: ‘Epigram by the late Earl of Dorset on the Lady Dorchester’. First line: ‘Tell me Dorinda why so gay’.
• ff. 83-83v: ‘A Satire by Lord Dorset’. First line: ‘Of a splenatic nation I sing’.
• f. 83v: [Epigram on King William]. First line: ‘Richard the 3rd was a Hog’.
• f. 83v: ‘On the Duke of Buck’s House by the Park’. First line: ‘This is the House that Jack built’.
• ff. 84-84v: ‘An Epitaph by the Earl of Dorset’. First line: ‘Here lyes little Lundy a yard deep or more’.
• ff. 85-87: ‘The Female Nine’. First line: ‘What Chance hath brought thee into verse’.
• ff. 87v-88: ‘An account of a Poem called Female Nine. 1690 [by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl Dorset]’. First line: ‘When Monmouth the chast read these impudent lines’.
• ff. 88v-90v: ‘Epistle from H. H[eveningham?] to the D. of N.’. First line: ‘Since Man-g [Manwaring?] and learned Per-y [Perry?]’.
• ff. 90v-91: [Curses on the Stuarts]. First line: ‘Curst be the Stars which did ordain’.
• f. 91v: First line: ‘Ad Generum Cereris sine cede et vulnere Pauci’
• f. 91v: [On the Violent Death of Kings]. First line: ‘Tis rare that Kings by common deaths depart’.
• f. 91v: [On the Burning of Whitehall in Latin]. First line: ‘Arserat ut menctis Regia Alba ast impia flammis’.
• f. 92: [On the Burning of Whitehall in English]. First line: ‘Whilst with fierce Flames Whitehall was compass’d round’.
• f. 92v: [Satire on the Lord Clarendon, in French]. First line: ‘J’ay vendu Dunkirque’.
• f. 92v: ‘Writ over the Door of the House of Commons, 1700 [The Pow’r of Gold]. First line: ‘Gold rules within, and reigns without these doors’.
• f. 93: [Epigram on Dryden by Thomas Brown] First line: ‘Dryden Enemies are three’.
• f. 93: ‘Found in Dover Road’. First line: ‘In your Letter, you tell me you are willing to know’.
• f. 93v: ‘On the Lord Som[ers]’. First line: ‘Blown up by Faction and by Guild Spur’d on’.
• f. 93v: [Fable of the old man and his two Wives apply’d to King William]. First line: ‘In Esops tales an honest wretch we find’.
• ff. 94-94v: ‘A New Nothing’. : First line: ‘I’ll have a new Test that neither shall own’.
• f. 94v: [Verses on the War, in Latin]. First line: ‘Ecce virum stabiles cui gens Augusta penates’.
• ff. 95-95v: First line: ‘For Shape and Beauty ‘mongst the female Train’.
• ff. 95v-98: ‘Cupids Postboy’. First line: ‘Attend all you curious to hear your own fate’.
• ff. 98v-99: ‘An Excellent new Ballad to the tune of Chivy Chase. 1700’. First Line: ‘Wheras King William ruld this Land’.
• ff. 99v-100: [Ballad on Dr South and Dr Sherlock]. First Line: ‘A Dean and Prebendary’.
• f. 100v: [On Count Tallard in French]. First Line: ‘Le Brave Comte de Tallard’.
• f. 100v: [A French Whim, upon putting it in the right place]. First Line: ‘Il n’est pas bien la la la’.
• f. 100v: [Joseph to King James, presenting his Son. In French]. First Line: ‘Le Roy Jacques s’avance dans le sacre pourpris’.
• f. 101: [Choice Reliques at Rome: In French]. First Line: ‘A Rome, l’on y voit la motte d’aggripine’.
• f. 101: [Lysanders Penitence: In French]. First Line: ‘Le Jubile Dernier Lysander fit dessein’.
• f. 101v: ‘On the King of Spains voyage to Portugal. 1703/4’. First Line: ‘Back’d with confederate force the Austrian goes’.
• ff. 102-102v: [The Statesmen’s Dismission]. First Line: ‘Duke … who led up the dance’.
• ff. 103-105v: ‘A Prophecy 1703. By H. Mor.[Henry Mordaunt?]’. First Line: ‘When great Nassau is dead & gone’.
• f. 106: ‘On Orpheus and Seignora Margarita’. First Line: ‘Haile tunefull pair tell by what wondrous charms’.
• f. 106v: ‘On the Dutchess of Marlborough. 1703’. First Line: ‘No Wonder, Winds more dreadfull are by far’.
• f. 106v: [Sword and Picture given by ye King of Spain to Lord Marlbrough]. First Line: ‘Accept my Lord of this poor glittering thing’.
• f. 107: ‘Sine Clade Victor: The Queen a Foot, and Duke of Marlborough on Horseback on the other side with the Several Towns taken by the Duke in Flanders with the motto above. 1703/4’. First Line: ‘The Glory of the English Arms Retriev’d’.
• f. 107v: ‘Sur les Courses de Duc de Marleburg. Depuis les lignes de Francois en Flandre Jusq’au Danube. Veni vidi vallum sie fine clade vici’. First Line: ‘On avoit eru jusqu’á ce jour’.
• ff. 108-108v: ‘Occaisional Conformity: or a proper new Ballad by a West Saxon’. First Line: ‘Occasionly as we discourst of Queen and Church and Nation’.
• f. 109: ‘Advice to the Lord K[eeper]’. First Line: ‘Be wise as Som[erse]t, as Som[e]rs brave’.
• f. 109v: ‘Writ on the foregate at Buckingham House’. First Line: ‘Happyly hous’d these Lares are’
• f. 109v: ‘O Fortune’. First line: ‘The Court of St Germains is Serv’d up in State’.
• f. 110: ‘Verses on the new Promotion; sent to the Queen’. First Line: ‘Oh A[nn]a thy new Friends and prickeard Court’.
• f. 110v: ‘On the Noble Peers late Resolve’. First Line: ‘Good Hal[ifa]x and pious Wh[arto]n cry’. Inscribed above the title in pen is some Latin: ‘Ecce Iterum et Sunt mihi Saepe vanadi ad Partes’.
• f. 110v: ‘Pasquinade on the Duke of S[hrewsbury]. Translated’. First Line: ‘O yes hence forward, sit omnibus notum’.
• ff. 111-111v: ‘Sir John Watters to Sir Sym. Harcourt’. First Line: ‘We know thy skill, Sir Pleadwell, in the Laws’. Inscribed above the title in pen is ‘Martial 2nd Book 32 Epigram’
• f. 111v: '18 Mar 1706. Epilogue to Rosamond’. First Line: ‘The nimph who oft has been exposed to view’.
• ff. 112-112v: ‘The 4th Ode of the Second Book of Horace, imitated. Lord Granville to the Earle of Scarsdale’. First Line: ‘Do not, most fragrant Earle disclaim’.
• f. 113: ‘Imitation of Horace Ode 22. Lib: 1. Epistle from Earl of O[gle?] to Coll. B[ret].’ First Line: ‘The Man, Dear Bret, that wears a Condom’.
• ff. 114-115v: ‘The Seven Wise Men’. First Line: ‘Seven Sages in our Happy Isle are seen’.
• ff. 116-117: First Line: ‘I’ll sing you a song my brave boys’.
• f. 118: ‘In E. A.’. First Line: ‘Siste Viator et Lege’
• f. 119: ‘An Estimate of the yearly Income of [the Duke and Dutchess of Marlborough]’.
• f. 120: ‘On the Duke of Marlborough passing the Lines in 1705’. First Line: ‘Guidé par Cadogan et son bouillant genie’.
• f. 121-121v: ‘List of her Majesty’s Navy in Line of Battle and their respective Commanders riding between Kensington Garden and the Cockpit’.
• f. 122: [On the Apprehensions of the Plague in France]. First Line: ‘Accables de Malheurs, menaces de la Peste’
• f. 122v: ‘La Genealogie de Mr Lan fait a Paris 1720’.
• ff. 123-124: ‘Panegyric to ye K. Ch. 2 by Ch[arles] Cotton 1660’. First line: ‘A work that requires ye best & most assured pen’.