Harley MS 7315

Folio manuscript volume containing various verses and prose in two parts, by two or more professional scribes. The first part (ff. 1-149) is indexed (ff. 150-151). The second part (ff. 152-303) contains a table of contents at the front.

Contents:

• ff. 1-7v: 'The second Advice to a Painter for drawing the History of our Navall Business in imitation of Mr Waller supposed to be written By Sir J[ohn] Denham' [Also attributed to Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'Now Painter if thou dars't designe that Fight'.
• ff. 7v-8v: 'To the King'. First line: 'Impreiall Prince! King of ye Seas and Isles'.
• ff. 8v-18v: 'The Third Advice to a Painter' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'Sandwitch in Spaine now! & the Duke in love!'.
• ff. 19-19v: 'To the King'. First line: 'Great Prince! and so much greater as more wise'.
• ff. 19v-23: 'The Fourth Advice or The New Instructions to a Painter' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'Draw England ruin'd by what was done before'.
• ff. 23v-27: 'The House warning to the Chancellour' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'When Clarendon has descern'd before hand'.
• ff. 27v-28: 'The Downfall of the Chancellor'. First line: 'Prince, Lust, Ambition, and the People's hate'.
• ff. 28-30v: 'Advice to a Painter to draw a D[uke] by. By H[enry?] Savile [Also attributed to Andrew Marvell]'. First line: 'Spread a large Canvas Painter to containe'.
• ff. 30v-31: 'To the King'. First line: 'Great Charles who full of mercy wou'dst command'.
• ff. 31-32v: 'Upon Sir Robert Viners Setting up the Kings Statue' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'As Cittys that unto fierce Conquerours yield'.
• ff. 33-42v: 'A Dreame of the Caball' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'As t'other Night, in Bed I thinking lay'.
• ff. 42v-46: 'Upon the Prorogueing of the Parliament'. First line: 'Prorogue upon Prorogue" Damn'd Rogues & Whores'.
• ff. 46v-49: 'A New Ballad To an old Tune, called Sage Leafe'. First line: 'I sing the praise of a worthy Wight'.
• ff. 49v-51v: 'The Duke of Buckingham's Letany'. First line: 'From a proud, senuall, Atheisticall Life'.
• ff. 52-55v: 'Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'The Londoner Gent'.
• ff. 56-59v: 'Upon the Parliament'. First line: 'Roome for the Bedlam Common, Hell & Furyes'.
• ff. 60-65: 'A Ballad called ye Chequer Inn' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'I'll tell the Dick where I have beene'.
• ff. 65-65v: 'The Answer'. First line: 'Curse on such Representation'.
• ff. 65v-67v: 'On King Charles the First his Statue, why it is so long before it is put up at Chareing Cross' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'What can the Mistry be why Chareing Cross'.
• ff. 67v-71v: 'A Dialogue between the Two Horses, Chareing and Woolchurch' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'Wee read in prophane & Sacred Records'.
• f. 72: 'Conclusion'. First line: 'If Speech from Brute-Animals, Romes first Age'.
• ff. 72v-77v: 'The History of the Times' [By John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester]. First line: 'Chaste, Pious, Prudent, Charles ye Second'.
• ff. 78-83: 'Brittania & Rawleigh, By A[ndrew] Marvell'. First line: 'Ah Rawleigh! when thou dudst they Breath resigne'.
• ff. 83v-84: 'Satyr' [By John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester]. First line: 'In the Isle of Brittain long since famous growne'.
• ff. 84v-86: 'A Ballad call'd the Hay-Markett Hectors' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'I sing a Woofull Ditty'.
• ff. 86-86v: 'On Blood's stealing the Crowne By A[ndrew] Marvell'. First line: 'When daring Blood his Rents to have regain'd'.
• ff. 86v-87v: 'This Queen's Ballad'. First line: 'Reforme (Great Queen) the Error of your youth'.
• ff. 87v-89v: 'A new Ballad to an Old Tune Call'd I am the Duke of Norffolke'. First line: 'I am a senselesse thing with a Hey, with a Hey'.
• ff. 89v-91: 'Queries from Garraways Coffee House'.
• ff. 91-96v: '[1680] On Tuesday the Ninth day of January are to be sold by Inch of Candle at the Royall Coffee House near Chareing Crosse These severall Goods in parcells videlt'.
• f. 96v: 'An Advertisement'.
• ff. 97-98: 'A Postscript of Bookes to be sold by Mr Ogleby at White Fryars'.
• ff. 98v-102: 'His Majesties Speech' [by Andrew Marvell].
• ff. 102v-103: 'A young Gentleman desirous to be a Minister of State thus pretended to Qualify himself. By Lord Rochester' [John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester]. First line: 'To make myself for this Impolyment fit'.
• ff. 103-107v: 'Upon Oliver Cromwell late Lord Protector, By John Dryden' [Also known as 'Heroique Stanzas']. First line: 'And not 'tis time for their officious haste'.
• ff. 108-117v: 'Pindarique Ode on the same Subject by Mr Spratt [Thomas Sprat?]'. First line: 'Tis true greate name, thou art secure'.
• ff. 118-119: 'On the same Subject By Mr [Edmund] Waller'. First line: 'Wee must Resigne, Heav'm his great Soule do's Claime'.
• ff. 119-120: 'Marveils Ghost'. First line: 'From the darke Stygian Lake I come'.
• ff. 120v-122v: 'Sir Edmund Bury Godfreys Ghost'. First line: 'It happen'd in the Twy-Light of the Day'.
• ff. 123-125v: 'Hodge. A Countrey Clowne went up to view the Pymarid. Pray marke what follows' [By Andrew Marvell]. First line: 'When Hodge had muber'd up how many score'.
• ff. 126-129: 'The Dissolution'. First line: 'Oh Heav'n! Wee now have signes below'.
• ff. 129-132: 'The Character'. First line: 'The Lords and Commons having had their doome'.
• ff. 132-133v: 'Queries'. First line: 'Wou'd you send Kate to Portugall'.
• ff. 133v-135: 'The Queries answer'd'. First line: 'I wou'd be glade to see Kate going'.
• ff. 135v-141: 'The Lord Rochester's Farewell' [By Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset]. First line: 'Fill'd with the noisome Folly of the Age'.
• ff. 141v-143: 'To the Dutchess of Portsmouth'. First line: 'Me thinks I see you newly rissen'.
• ff. 143v-145v: 'Satyr'. First line: 'Now our goof King do's Papists have'.
• ff. 146-149: 'The Deist. A Satyr on the Parsons: To the Tune of Old Simon the King. By the Lord Dorset [Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset] or Charles Blount'. First line: 'Religion's a Politick Law'.
• ff. 150-151: Index to the first part of the miscellany.
• f. 152: Title of the second part of the miscellany: 'A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons etc. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a Person of Quality'.
• ff. 153-154v: Contents of the second part of the miscellany.
• ff. 155-156v: 'On the Lord Lovelaces Triumphant march into Oxford. 1688'. First line: 'A late Expedition to Oxford was made'.
• ff. 156v-158v: 'A Letter to the Lady Osborn. 1688'. First line: 'Madam I loath the Censur'rs of the Town'.
• ff. 158v-159v: 'The Regicides Petition: 1688'.
• ff. 160-162: 'Upon the Sickness of ye Archbishop of Canterbury. Febr. 14 1688'. First line: 'How just is then the Tribute of our Eyes'.
• ff. 162-163v: 'The Convocation. 1688'. First line: 'Canonical Black Coats, like Birds of a Feather'.
• ff. 164-164v: 'A Dialogue between Supple and Sturdy. 1688'. First line: 'By what I did hear the litle Bird sing'.
• ff. 164v-166: 'The Impartial Inspection. 1688'. First line: 'Would you be preserv'd from Ruin'.
• f. 166v: 'A Description of a Hampton Court Life. 1689. by Fleet. Shepherd' [Sir Fleetwood Sheppard]. First line: 'Man and Wife are all one'.
• ff. 166v-168v: 'A Dialogue betwixt the Ghosts of Russell and Sydney. 1689'. First line: 'Tis common wee know for Goblins to walk'.
• f. 169: 'On Dundee. 1689. By Mr [John] Dryden'. First line: 'O Last & best of Scotts, who didst maintain'.
• ff. 169-172v: 'The King of Hearts. Lord Delamere'. First line: 'I sing the man that rais'd a shirtless Band'.
• ff. 172v-175v: 'The Invasion. 1688/9'. First line: 'When Heaven surrounded Brittain by the Main'.
• ff. 176-177: 'Nonsence Authenticated & Consecrated by a vote of Our late English Convention to be the main Fundamental of out new Government. Or The modern state & meaning of the word Abdicate, parallel'd by divers Instances. To the Tune of Packingtons Pound'. First line: 'Some Theives by ill hap with an honest man met'.
• ff. 177v-179v: 'King Williams Triumph Being an Excellent new Ballad of his Glorious Atchievements since his Landing. To the Tune of Cheviot Chase. 1689/90'. First line: 'God prosper long our noble Will'.
• ff. 179v-180: 'On I and O'. First line: 'A Glorious Figure did I once make'.
• ff. 180-181: 'A new Ballad As it was made by Cooling & Shepherd. To the Tune of God prosper long out Noble King etc. 1690'. First line: 'If abdicate James'.
• ff. 181-182v: 'A Congratulory Poem on his Majesties Return from Ireland. 1690'. First line: 'Welcome Great Monarch to the Throne wee gave'.
• ff. 182v-183v: 'Doctor Lowers advice in a familiar Epistle to King William. 1690'. First line: 'From the Dutch Coast when you set Sail'.
• ff. 183v-184v: 'The Female Casuist or Sherlocks Conversion. 1690'. First line: 'Passive obedience and Non'.
• ff. 184v-186v: 'Englands Congratulation for its happy Condition under the Glorious Reign of King William and Queen Mary. To Packingtons Pound. 1690'. First line: 'Now Wars, Dissentions, Want & Taxes Cease'.
• f. 187. 'On the Earl of Torrington. 1690'. First line: 'Stain of they Country and Antient name'.
• ff. 187-188v: 'On the two Pictures'. First line: 'Whether the Graver did by this intent'.
• ff. 188v-189v: 'The Torys Creed. 1690'. First line: 'Our zealous Sons of Mother Church'.
• ff. 189v-194: 'The opening of the Sessions. 1690'. First line: 'With a grave Leg & courteous smile'.
• ff. 194-194v: 'A Supplement to the opening of the Sessions. 1690'. First line: 'No sooner had the Royall Senate met'.
• ff. 195-196: 'Athanasins Creed Paraphras'd'. First line: 'Who will be sav'd, he must beleive'.
• ff. 196-198: 'The Nine. 1690'. First line: 'A Thin ill natur'd Ghost that haunts the King'.
• ff. 198-201: 'The Female Nine. 1693. By Earl of Monmouth [Charles Mordaunt, First Earl of Monmouth?]. First line: 'What Charms have brought thee into verse'.
• ff. 201-202: 'An Excellent new Ballad giving a true Account of the Birth & Conception of a late famous Poem call'd the Female Nine. To the Tune of Packingtons Pound. By [Charles Sackville, Sixth] Earl of Dorset. 1690'. First line: 'When Monmouth the Chast read those impudent lines'.
• ff. 202v-203: 'On the Modern Lampooner. 1690'. First line: 'Yee mighty Lampooners who grow in to fashion'.
• ff. 203-204: 'In Episcopum Sarisburiensem'. First line: 'E Scotia Presbyter profingus'.
• ff. 204-206: 'King Charles the Second's Ghost. 1691'. First line: 'As in a dream Our thinking monarch lay'.
• ff. 206v-208: 'The Divorce. 1691'. First line: 'You Englishmen all that are tender'd the Curse'.
• ff. 208v-209: 'A Copy of a Letter in which The Divorce was inclos'd'.
• ff. 209-209v: 'Resolution of the House of Ladys. 1691'.
• ff. 210-212: 'Somerton's Epistle'. First line: 'Dear Somerton, once m Belov'd Correspondent'.
• ff. 212-213: 'A New Ballad To the Tune of Packingtons Pound. 1692 [or 1691]'. First line: 'Who wou'd have thought that Rome's Convert so near'.
• ff. 213-214v: 'The Universall Health or of true Union to the Queen and Princess'. First line: 'The faults of Princes and of Kings'.
• ff. 214v-215v: 'Votum. 1692'. First line: Pro Jacobo secondo sine Regno Rege'. Followed by an English translation. First line: 'Hail Mighty James! A king without a Crown'.
• ff. 215v-217v: 'A Speech which was intended to have been spoken by Mr John Smith, a Member of the House of Commons on Saturday the 28th day of January 1692 (upon occasion of the Triennial Bill) but by changing his Coat was unfortunately left at home in his Pocket'.
• f. 218: 'The Night Bellman of Pickadilly'. First line: 'Welcome Great Prince into this Lonely place'.
• ff. 218-219v: 'My Lord Nottingham's Order to Mr Dives late Clerk of the Councill upon notice of the aforesaid verses'.
• ff. 219v-220: 'A New Nothing'. First line: 'I'll have a new Test which neither shall own'.
• ff. 220-221v: 'A Dialogue between Sir Robert Howard and Collonell Titus. 1692'. First line: 'Marry'd Sir Robert, can the news be true'.
• ff. 221v-222v: 'Satyr. 1693'. First line: 'Declining Venus has no force over Love'
• ff. 222v-223v: 'Advertisement In the City Mercury. Febr. 1693'.
• ff. 224-227v: 'Jenny Cromwell's Complaint against Sodomy. 1692/3'. First line: 'In pious times e're Buggery did begin'.
• ff. 228-233: 'A True and seasonable Speech for King William to this Parliament. 1693. By John Hampden and E. Montagu'.
• f. 233: 'A Prophecy found under the foundation of the Chappell of Wallingford House Engraven in Lead and discovered on Saturday the 2nd of June 1694 and sent by Mr Thomas Povey to the Lord Mayor who imediately proclaimed a Fast thereon. By Sir Fleetwood Shepheard [Sheppard]'. First line: 'When Tewksbury Mustard shall wander abroad'.
• f. 233v: 'A Prophecy found under the Treason Bench in St James's Park the 12th of June engraved in Copper and carryd to the Lord Chamberlain by Sejt. Barecroft'. [By Sir Fleetwood Sheppard?] First line: 'When the last of all Knights is the first of all Knaves'.
• f. 234: 'On the Countess of Dorchester. 1694. By [Charles Sackville, Sixth] Earl of Dorset'. First line: 'Dorinda's sparking wit and Eyes'.
• f. 234v: 'Another on the same Lady, by [Charles Sackville, Sixth] Earl of Dorset'. First line: 'Tell me Dorinda, why so gay'.
• ff. 235-236: 'The Petition of Hassan a Turk Condemn'd for Sodomy as it was translated by Sir William Hedges'.
• ff. 236v-237: 'To the Renowned Beigh [Sir William Hedges] one of the Cadyes of the City of London To whom If mercifull God shew mercy and his End be happy'.
• ff. 237-239v: 'The Clubmen of the House of Commons. 1694. By George [Savile, First Marquess] of Halifax'. First line: 'Let noble Sir Positive lean the Van'.
• ff. 240-240v: 'On The Queen's Death. By an Oxford Barber. 1694'. First line: 'Soon as the dismall news came down'.
• ff. 240v-241v: 'The Strowlers Prologue at Cambridge. 1695'. First line: 'In Early days e're Prologues did begin'.
• ff. 242-243v: 'The Mourners. 1695'. First line: 'As late at Funeral Pompe I sate'.
• ff. 243v-244: 'A Hugh and Cry after Fair Amoret. 1696. By E. D_t [Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset]' [Also attributed to William Congreve]. First line: 'Fair Amoret is gone astray'.
• ff. 244-245: 'A New Ballad. 1697'. First line: 'Last year in the Spring'.
• ff. 245-248v: 'Cupid's Post Boy. 1697'. First line: 'Attend all you Curious, and to your own Fate'.
• ff. 249-250: 'A Dialogue between the King, Benting & [Sunderland]'. First line: 'My Lords I have received a Letter'.
• ff. 250-250v: 'Upon the Nine Chitts. 1697'. First line: 'Great William concern'd to leave his Gull'd Boobies'.
• ff. 250v-252v: 'The Result of the Lords of the Treasury. March 1697'. First line: 'Happy are they who wisely do forsee'.
• ff. 252v-255: 'The Royal Folly. 1698'. First line: 'Of Ramblings & Follys you oft have been told'.
• ff. 255-256v: 'In Praise of No Body. 1698'. First line: 'A Muses Power the fate has stop't his Breath'.
• ff. 256v-259: 'An Answer to J. Poultneys Letter, why I do not let me wife keep some sort of Company. 1698'. First line: 'And why to me this letter of Complaint'.
• ff. 259-261v: 'An Epistle from Henry Heveningham to the Duke of Somerset at Newmarkett. 1698'. First line: 'Since Manwaring and Learned Perry'.
• ff. 262-262v: 'An Answer'. First line: 'The Town is in a high Dispute'.
• ff. 263-265: 'A Letter from J.P. to Collonell Heveningham, occasion'd by the Collonells two late Letters'. First line: 'O Harry! cans't thou find no subject fit'.
• ff. 265-267: 'To Mr. Manwaring, Secretary to the Most Noble Knights of the Toast'. First line: 'Noble Sir, This Epistle most humbly complains'.
• ff. 267v-269: 'To the most Renowned the President and the rest of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Toast'. First line: 'When to the great the Suppliant Muses press'.
• ff. 269v-270: 'On Mr Congreve and Mrs Bracegirle. 1698'. First line: 'Celinda lov'd by every Swain'.
• ff. 270-270v: 'On a young Lady turning quick about that had like to have struck a Gentleman down with her Backside'. First line: 'Phillis regardless of her Charms'.
• ff. 270v-274: 'Advice to a Painter'. First line: 'What had, what Art can form the Artfull peice'.
• ff. 274-276v: 'The Perfect Enjoyment'. First line: 'Now soar my Muse on the sublimest Wing'.
• ff. 276v-277: 'A sonnet translated out of French'. First line: 'When Adam beheld Mother Eve newly born'.
• ff. 277-277v: 'The Wish. 1698'. First line: 'That nauseous Rthen wou'd for France'.
• ff. 277v-278: 'On Mrs Bracegirle'. First line: 'May she to nauseous Scarsdale prove'.
• ff. 278-278v: 'In Praise of Woman. By Lord Cutts' [John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts]. First line: 'When Heaven great power had made the Worlds vast Frame'.
• ff. 278v-279: 'The Rival. 1698'. [By Sir John Vanbrugh] First line: 'Of all the Torments all the Cares'.
• ff. 279-279v: 'To a Lady more Cruel than Fair. 1698. By Sir John Vanbrugh'. First line: 'Why d'ye with such disdain refuse'.
• ff. 280-280v: 'Song By a Lady. 1698' [By Sir Charles Sedley]. First line: 'Young Corydon & Phillis, sate in a Lovely Grove'.
• ff. 281-282: 'An Excellent New Ballad. To the Tune of Packingtons Pound. 1698'. First line: 'When Burnet perceiv'd that the Beautifull Dames'.
• ff. 282-284v: 'An Encomium upon the Parliament. 1699'. First line: 'Yee worthy Patriots goe on'.
• ff. 284v-285v: ''The Womens Complaint to Venus. 1699'. First line: 'Now happy were good English faces'.
• ff. 285v-286: 'Venus Reply'. First line: 'Why Nymphs these pitifull stories'.
• ff. 286-288: 'The Assembly at Kensington. 1699'. First line: 'There was wondrous intriguing at th'Assembly'.
• ff. 288-290v: 'The Play House. 1699'. First line: 'Where gently Thames in Stately Channells glides'.
• ff. 290v-291: 'On the Vicechamberlain Bertue. 1699'. First line: 'Since the times are so nice'.
• f. 291: 'Writ over the House of Commons Door. 1700'. First line: 'Gold rules within and reigns without these doors'.
• f. 291v: 'Chloe to Artimesa. 1700'. First line: 'While Vulgar souls their vulgar Lover pursue'.
• ff. 291v-293v: 'To Damon. 1700'. First line: 'Damon forbear, and don't disturbe your Muse'.
• ff. 293v-294: 'A Letter found in Dover Road. 1700'. First line: 'In your Letter to me you desire to know'.
• f. 294: 'The Answer'. First line: 'Since the Senate is mad, & the Lords are such Fools'.
• ff. 294v-295v: 'An Excellent New Ballad to the Tune of Chevy Chace. 1700'. First line: 'When King William rul'd this Land'.
• ff. 295v-298: 'A Conference between King William and the Earl of Sunderland. In a letter to a Friend. June 1700'. First line: 'Having thankd me so much for the news in my last'.
• f. 298v: 'On the death of the Duke of Gloucester. 1700' [By Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset]. First line: 'For Gloucester's death which sadly wee deplore'.
• ff. 298v-302: 'Hans Carvell De la Fountain imitated. Adapted to ye Earl of Ranelagh. 1700. By Mr M Prior'. First line: 'Hans Carvel impotent and old'.
• ff. 302-302v: 'To a certain Gentleman that is said to be answering D. Davenants Books. 1701'. First line: 'Hold Englands Friend, your needless labour spare'.
• f. 302v: 'On Lady Betty Cromwell, Lord Raby and Collonell Codrington. 1698'. First line: 'Too conscious of her worth, a noble Maid'.
• f. 303: 'On the Queen's Message to the Commons. By Sir Charles Hedges. 1703'. First line: 'The Queene A Messag to ye Sennat Sent'.