Catalogue description "Poetical Miscellanies: containing a Collection of Poems, etc., by Matthew Prior, Esqr"....

"Poetical Miscellanies: containing a Collection of Poems, etc., by Matthew Prior, Esqr". Preceded by a Table of Contents. Included are:

"The occasion of writing the Country Mouse and the City Mouse. In a letter to ----". "Copy from the original in M. Prior's own hand" (f.1); "To Madam K.P. A Pastoral Dialogue", beg. "See, Strephon, see" (f.5); "To a Lady Sleeping", beg. "Still, sleep, still fold" (f.8); "Charity never faileth", beg. "Say would'st thou gain eternal praise" (f.9); "In praise of the Lady Margaret, foundress of St. John's", beg. "If gilded flaggs" (f.12); "Prov. 31. 29. As spoken in a vision to the Lady Margaret", beg. "Twas night, the Drousy Deity began" (f.14); "On the Coronation", beg. "No, 'tis in vain" (f.16); "Not writing to K.P.", beg." So from divinity and things above" (f.18); "Arria and Petus; out of Martial", beg. "With Roman constancy and decent pride" (f.19); "To the Countess of D[orse]t walking in a garden", beg. "Yes, I did stubernly (sic) believe" (f.20); "To the E[arl] of D[orset] upon his marriage", beg. "The scorching Dogstar" (f.22); "Journey to Copt-hall", beg. "Thirty six miles - too far to walk a foot" (f.27); "On Mr F[leetwood] S[hepherd] killing the French King", beg. "The joyful slaves" (f.29); "Advice to the Painter" (see "Poems on Affairs of State", vol. ii.1703, p.148), beg. "Since by just flames" (f.31); "To the B[ishop] of R[ochester] upon his account of the late Whiggish Conspiracy", beg. "With humble hopes" (f.35); "To my Lord of Ely at Christmas" ("Works", ed. by R.B. Johnson, 1892, ii. p.175), beg. "If poets, e'er they clothed" (f.36); "The First Copy to my Lord of Ely" (ib. p.176), beg. "Tell dear Alexis" (f.36); "God is Love", beg. "Almighty Power" (f.40); "To the E[arl] of D[orset], on the birth of his son", beg. "Wake, Goddess, wake" (f.42); "A Hymn to the Spring", beg. "Fairest child of flowing time" (f.45); "A Session of the Poets (imperfect)", beg. "Since the King like a venterous Gamster at Loo" (f.46); "To a Friend on his marriage", beg. "Chamont was absent" (f.50); "Letter to T----", beg. "My little Wid: to you I send" (f.52); "To Dr. F. in a letter to Beverley", etc., beg. "To clear the brain or purge the thought" (f ----); Part of a letter to Lord ----, with a six-line verse "So when the meanest priest comes near the Cell" (f.54); "Epistle to Lord ----", beg. "That with much wealth" (f.55); "To my Lady Exeter", etc., beg. "Great God of Time, whose early care", 1689 (f.60); "Answer to an Orange", beg. "Good people, I pray, Throw the orange away" (f.62); "Song", beg. "Love has often threaten'd war" (f.64); Song, beg. "Love, I confess I thought thee but a name" (f.65); Song, beg. "Great Nassau, rise from Beauty" (f.66); "Were Coelia absent", two versions (f.67); "A Hymn to Venus upon a Marriage", beg. "Almighty pow'r of harmony and love" (f.68); "On a piece of Wissins" ("Works", ed. R. B. Johnson, ii. p.198), beg. "Wissin and Nature;" (f.70), followed by the rest of the pieces comprised in "A second collection of Poems on several occasions", 1716, 8vo (the printed text inlaid, the last poem, "A Satire upon the Poets", having 17 lines added in MS.) (ff.70-128); "A Fable" (see "Poems on State Affairs", vol.ii.1703, p.241), beg. "In Esop's Tales" (f.130); "A new Answer to an Argument against a standing Army" (ibid. vol. iii. 1704, p.378), beg. "Would they who have nine years look'd sour" (f.131); "Fragment", beg. "Thy King (O may I call him by that name?") (f.132); "Ballad", beg. "The Factions which each other claw" (f.133); Ballad, beg. "The Crown once again" (f.134); "Seneca, Troas, Act 2d", beg. "Is it a Truth" (f.137); "Written in the year 1696", beg. "While with labour assiduous" ("Works", ed. R.B. Johnson, ii. p.193) (f.137); "Daphne and Apollo" (ib.ii. p.239), beg. "Abate, fair fugitive" (f.138); "To my Lord Harley" (ib.ii. p.274), beg. "Pen, ink and paper" (f.143); "While soft she parly'd with becoming grace", from the French (f.144); Fragment, beg. "For instance, when you think you see a" (f.144B); "Intended for Lock", beg. "Lock wou'd the human understanding show" (f.146); Fragments written for "Alma", etc. (ff.147-161); "Song", beg. "Now how shall I do with my Love and my Pride" ("Works", ii. p.271) (f.161); "The Old Gentry" (ib.ii. p.269), beg. "That all from Adam first begun" (f.162); "Riddle" (ib.ii. p.269), beg. "Form'd half beneath" (f.163); "Epigram" (ib.ii. p.252), beg. "Her time with equal prudence Coelia shares" (f.164); "As Almoner in Holy Week" (f.165); "To a painter" (fragments), beg. "In foreign lands my poetry stands dumb" (f.168); "A Prologue intended to the Play of Chit Chat", Feb., 1719-1720, beg. "The ugly Beau" (f.169); "In a window in Lord V----s house", 1696, beg. "In vain by druggs" (f.171); "Song" (op. cit. i. p.279), beg. "Reading ends in Melancholy" (f.172); "To a child of quality" (ib.ii. p.196), beg. "Lords, knights and squires" (f.173); "Enigma" (ib.ii. p.268), beg. "By birth I'm a slave" (f.174); "Frederic, etc., from Boccace" (fragments), beg. "What Bocace with superior Genius cloathed" (f.176); Verses to Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley (ib.ii. p.228), beg. "Since Anna", printed, fol.,1720 (f.174); "Prologue to the Orphan" (ib.ii. p.229), beg. "What wou'd my humble comrades", printed, fol., 1720 (f.185); "The Conversation" (ib.ii. p.233), beg. "It always has been thought discreet", printed, fol., 1720 (f.186); "Colin's Mistakes" (ib.ii. p.294), beg. "Fast by the banks of Cam", pr., fol. 1721 (f.193); "Down Hall" (ib.ii. p.219), beg. "I sing not old Jason", pr., fol. 1723 (f.200); "The Turtle and the Sparrow" (ib.ii. p.205), beg. "Behind an unfrequented glade" (f.220); "Observations on Homer" (f.235); "Observations on Ovid's Metamorphoses" (f.245); "Brouillon of a Poem began at Wimpole in Aug., 1721", on Predestination (f.279); Argument and fragments of Ladislaus, a Tragedy (f.297); "Britannicus and Junia. Minutes for a Tragedy (f.311); "Latin Epistles, in prose and verse", followed by miscellaneous Latin pieces (f.326).