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| THE LIBERTINES |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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From A Satyr against Vertue |
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8 | (3) |
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Earl of Carberry Song (`There's no such Thing as good or Evill...') |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester The Maim'd Debauchee |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (6) |
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20 | (2) |
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Earl of Rochester From A Satyr Against Man |
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22 | (1) |
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The Doctor and his Patients |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Grecian Kindness |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (1) |
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From Bacchanalia: Or a Description of a Drunken Club |
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28 | (2) |
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Earl of RochesterUpon Nothing |
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30 | (5) |
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| MORALISTS AND VISIONARIES |
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The Creation of Man from Paradise Lost |
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35 | (1) |
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The Creation of Man from Of Divine Love |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (2) |
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Description of Chaos from Paradise Lost |
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40 | (1) |
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Description of Chaos from Prince Arthur |
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41 | (2) |
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Three Songs from The Pilgrim's Progress |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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From The Philosopher's Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian |
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48 | (2) |
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From To the Duke of Buckingham |
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50 | (1) |
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To the Honourable Charles Montague, Esq. |
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51 | (2) |
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Of the last Verses in the Book |
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53 | (4) |
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| THE CHRONICLERS |
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From A Poem upon the Death of His late Highnesse the Lord Protector |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (2) |
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On the Fair Weather just at the Coronation |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (5) |
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The Rebirth of London from Annus Mirabilis |
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73 | (1) |
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A Character of the Dutch from A Description of Holland |
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74 | (2) |
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The Dutch in the Thames from The Last Instructions to a Painter |
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76 | (3) |
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A Lampoon (`Good people draw neare...') |
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79 | (2) |
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A Ballad call'd the Hay-Markett Hectors |
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81 | (2) |
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Upon Blood's attempt to steale the Crown |
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83 | (1) |
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From Satyr II (`Upon the Jesuits') |
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83 | (1) |
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Loyola's Instructions to his Followers |
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84 | (1) |
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From Absalom and Achitophel |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (2) |
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Some Passages preceeding the Gyants Warre |
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90 | (7) |
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97 | (1) |
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Earl of Dorset (?) My Opinion |
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98 | (1) |
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The Enemies of David from Absalom and Achitophel |
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99 | (5) |
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104 | (3) |
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107 | (1) |
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The Death of Charles II and Succession of James II from Threnodia Augustalis |
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107 | (2) |
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From Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Prince, Born on the 10th. of June, 1688 |
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109 | (1) |
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Earl of Dorset (?) On the Revolution of 1688 |
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110 | (1) |
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A Dialogue Between King William and King James |
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111 | (2) |
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A Ballad to the Tune of Bateman |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (4) |
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| REASONS OF LOVE |
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119 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`'Twas a dispute 'twixt heav'n and Earth...') |
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119 | (1) |
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To Cloris (`Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes...') |
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120 | (1) |
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Earl of Dorset A Song (`Methinks the Poor Town...') |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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Song (`Phillis, Men say that all my Vows...') |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`My dear Mistress...') |
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124 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`While on those lovely looks I gaze...') |
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125 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Love and Life, a Song (`All my past Life...') |
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125 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`Absent from thee I languish still...') |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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Song from The Spanish Fryar |
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130 | (1) |
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To Mris. M[ary] A[wbrey] upon Absence |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester The Mistress |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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Song (`Love still has somthing of the Sea...') |
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135 | (1) |
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Song. The Willing Mistriss |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Countess of Sandwich To a Young Gentleman, whom a Lady had casually hurt with her Fan |
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138 | (1) |
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An Amorous Dialogue between John and his Mistris |
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138 | (4) |
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Earl of Dorset From the Latin |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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Song from An Evening's Love, or the Mock Astrologer |
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143 | (1) |
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Earl of Dorset The Advice |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester (?) Pindarick |
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145 | (2) |
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Song (`Phillis, let's shun the common Fate...') |
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147 | (1) |
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Songs. On her Loving Two Equally |
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148 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester To a Lady in a Letter |
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149 | (1) |
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To Lysander, on some Verses he writ |
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150 | (2) |
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Song from Sir Antony Love, or the Rambling Lady |
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152 | (1) |
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No true Love between Man and Woman |
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153 | (2) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`Love a Woman! y'are an Ass...') |
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155 | (1) |
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The Womens Complaint to Venus |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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Song (`See! Hymen comes; How his Torch blazes!') |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (1) |
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Song (`To friend and to foe...') |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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Song from Marriage A-la-Mode |
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167 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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Earl of Rochester Song (`Phillis, be gentler I advise...') |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (2) |
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Earl of Dorset The Fire of Love in Youthful Blood |
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174 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester A Song of a young Lady to her Ancient Lover |
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175 | (1) |
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One Writeing Against his Prick |
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176 | (1) |
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Carolus secundus (ut putatur) in Barbaram Comitiss: de Castlems |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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And forgive us our Trespasses |
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180 | (3) |
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| THE TRANSLATORS |
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An Ode of Anacreon, Paraphras'd |
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183 | (1) |
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Earl of Rochester Upon his Drinking a Bowl |
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184 | (1) |
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The Cause of Thunder from Lucretius, Book VI |
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185 | (3) |
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Lucretius, The Fourth Book: Concerning the Nature of Love |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (2) |
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An Ode In imitation of Horace, Ode IX. Lib. I. |
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192 | (2) |
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To a Perjur'd Mistress: the 8th. Ode of Horace, lib. II. Imitated |
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194 | (1) |
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The Eighth Ode of the Second Book of Horace |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (2) |
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Part of an Ode of Horace Paraphras'd |
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197 | (1) |
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The Sixth Book of the Aeneis |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (2) |
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Cato to Labienus, Lucan. Lib. 9 |
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203 | (1) |
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The Vices of Women from The Sixth Satyr of Juvenal |
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204 | (5) |
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| TOWN AND COUNTRY |
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209 | (2) |
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Song (`Smooth was the Water, calm the Air...') |
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211 | (1) |
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The Pleasures of the Park from On the Park at St. James's |
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212 | (2) |
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The Streets of London from A Satyr in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal |
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214 | (3) |
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Wrote in the Banquetting-House in Grayes-Inn-Walks |
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217 | (1) |
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217 | (4) |
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On the London Fire's Monument |
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220 | (1) |
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A Call to the Guard by a Drum |
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221 | (5) |
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226 | (1) |
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Second Dialogue between Crab and Gillian from The Bath, or the Western Lass |
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227 | (3) |
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From Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq. |
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230 | (2) |
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A Ballad of Andrew and Maudlin |
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232 | (1) |
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To my Friend Mr. John Anderson |
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233 | (2) |
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The Battle between a Cock and a Capon |
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235 | (4) |
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239 | (2) |
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Elden-Hole from The Wonders of the Peak |
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241 | (5) |
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An Epistle from Mr Duke to Mr Otway |
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246 | (2) |
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248 | (3) |
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| POET AND PUBLIC |
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Advice to a Young Friend on the Choice of his Library |
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251 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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A Dissuasive against Poetry from A Satyr |
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252 | (3) |
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255 | (1) |
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To Julian Secretary to the Muses |
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256 | (2) |
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Earl of Rochester An Allusion to Horace |
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258 | (3) |
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First Prologue to Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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A Letter from the Country to a Friend in Town |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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On Dr. Woodford's Paraphrase on the Canticles |
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265 | (2) |
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Earl of Dorset On Mr Edward Howard upon his 2British Princes |
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267 | (1) |
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Upon the Author of a Play call'd Sodom |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (1) |
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270 | (7) |
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277 | (4) |
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| MORS OMNIBUS COMMUNIS |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (2) |
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Earl of Rochester Seneca's Troas, Act 2. Chorus |
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284 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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The Death of Dives from Madness |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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Description of a Sea-battle from The Unhappy Favourite |
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290 | (1) |
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To the Society of the Beaux-Esprits |
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291 | (1) |
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To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew |
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291 | (6) |
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An Epitaph on my Honoured Mother-in-Law |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (2) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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300 | (1) |
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Epitaph on the Duke of Grafton |
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301 | (1) |
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An Epitaph upon the Worthy and truly Vigilant, Sam. Micoe Esq. |
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302 | (1) |
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Upon Mr. Bennet, Procurer Extraordinary |
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303 | (1) |
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| ENVOI |
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To Amasia, tickling a Gentleman |
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307 | (1) |
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To the Laud and Praise of a Shock Bitch |
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307 | (3) |
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On Fleet: Shepheard's takeing away a child's bread and butter |
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310 | (1) |
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On Melting down the Plate: Or, the Piss-Pot's Farewel |
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311 | (2) |
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| Biographical Notes |
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313 | (16) |
| Index of Authors |
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329 | (2) |
| Index of First Lines |
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