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 PREFATORY NOTE 
 
 Many of the following allusions have been noted in " Notes 
 and Queries," and jicihups elsewhere, but as they do not 
 appear in "The Shakspere Allusion-Book : MCMIX.," it has 
 been thought desirable to print them together. 
 
 The comjjiler is well aware that some of them were, no 
 doubt, directly suggested by the later-seventeenth century 
 perversions of Shakespeare's plays, and that two or three 
 others may possibly not be entitled to be described as 
 Shakespeare allusions at all. No attempt has been made 
 to correct the spelling or punctuation of the various 
 originals, nor has it been considered necessary to analyse 
 or comment upon them. One may, perhaps however, be 
 permitted to i)oint out that on p. 31 will be found part 
 of "Clarence's Dream" adapted to the purposes of a 
 Pindaric ode, and on p. 39 a reference upon a title-page 
 which is earlier by three years than any previously 
 known.
 
 WILLIAM BAKKSTED, 1611. 
 O lone too sweet, in the digestion sower ! 
 
 Hiren or The faire (ireeke : By William Barkster], 
 . . . London: . . . IGll. [4to]. st. 62. 
 
 W. B., 1633. 
 
 and the longer our life is, the more numerous are our 
 sinnes, even whole Miriades: and at last comes death, and 
 with a little pin bores through our wall of health, so fare- 
 well man. 
 
 The Philoeophers Banquet. The Third Edition. 
 Newly corrected and inlarged to almost as much 
 more. By W. B., Esquire. London: . . . 1IJ33. 
 [8vo]. p. 253. 
 
 JAMES HART, 1633. 
 
 And if but an ordinary artist should with a watchful! eye 
 diligently and narrowly observe the ordinary proceeding of 
 such an ^scu/ap?H5, he should observe him often, . . . to sooth 
 up his patient . . . when not withstanding this grim 
 Sergeant ceizes on the prisoner without baile or main price. 
 
 KAINIKH, or the Diet of the Diseased. . . . London, 
 . . . 1638. [fol.]. p. 5. 
 
 B
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1634. 
 
 And therefore I conclude, that that content which often- 
 times lodgeth not under a golden-fretted Roofo, may bee 
 found napping under a thacht-pacht Cottage. As that King 
 sometimes in a Poem of his to that purpose wittily complained. 
 O Sleepe, gentle sleepe, natures soft nurse 
 How have I frighted thee ? 
 
 That thou wilt no more weigh my eye-lids doM^ie, 
 Nor steepe my senses in forgetfulnesse 1 
 Why rather, sleep, lyest thou in smoky cribs 
 Upon uncasie Pallets stretching thee. 
 And husht with buzzing-night-flyes to thy slumber, 
 Then in the perfum'd chabers of the great, 
 Under the Canopies of costly state : 
 And Inll'd with sound of sweetest melody. 
 O thou dul god, why lyest thou with the vild 
 In loathsome cribs, and leav'st the Kingly couch 
 A Watch-case, or a common Larum-bell. 
 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, 
 Seale up the Ship boyes eyes and rocke his braines 
 In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; 
 And in the A'isitation of the winds, 
 Who takes the ruffian Billowes by the tops. 
 Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them 
 With deafing clamor in the slijipery clouds. 
 That with the hurly, Death it selfe awakes: 
 Canst thou, O partiall Sleepe, give them repose 
 In a wet season in an hour so rude. 
 And in the calmest and most stillest place. 
 With all appliances and meanes to boot. 
 Deny it to a King? then happy lowly down 
 Uneasie sits his Robe that weares a Crown. 
 
 A Helpe to Discourse : . . . The Eleventh Edition, 
 . . . 1634. [8vo]. pp. 51-3.
 
 K. JUNIUS [i.e. YOUNG], 1638. 
 
 And in regard of others, it were as needlesse, as to lend 
 
 spectacles to Lynceus, an eye to Argus, or to wast gilding on 
 
 jiure (to1<1. 
 
 Tlie Drunkard's Clianicter, . . . London, . . . 1638. 
 [8vo]. A 7. 
 
 PutriHed Lillies smell farre worse than weeds. 
 
 , Ibid. p. 197. 
 
 They would speake Dagger points, as Joah discoursed with 
 
 Amasa in the fift rib. 
 
 Ibid. p. 399. 
 
 So the uxoiions husband, at the first idolizeth his wife, no 
 
 . noyse must disturb her, the cold wind must not blow upon 
 
 her. 
 
 Ibid. p. 425. 
 
 It is easie for a mans sinne to live, when himselfe is dead. 
 
 Ibid. p. 4'.t6. 
 
 it being as tiue of malice, as it is of love, that it will 
 
 creepe, where it cannot goe. 
 
 Ibid. p. 421).
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1638. 
 before the King and Queene this yeare of our Lord, 1638. 
 
 At the Cocpit the 18th of November, Ceaser. 
 At the Cocpit the 15th of November, the mery wifes of 
 Winsor. 
 
 A leafe in MS. reproduced in facsimile in 
 " Arehseologic and Historic Fragments," by 
 George R. Wright, F.S.A. London. 1887. 
 [8vo]. 
 
 NATHANAEL RICHARDS, 1641. 
 
 He that dares awe his Countrey, King and State, 
 Smile, and yet be a villaine. 
 
 Poems Sacred and Satyricall, . . . London 
 164 L [8vo]. p. 50.
 
 ANONYMOUS, 164.3. 
 
 And if the Genius of the Land should aske thee, Who hath 
 beene so farre mis-led, to suffer the effusion of the bloud of 
 his loving and loyall Subjects 1 What wou'd Conscience say, 
 but the King? In the Tragedie of Richard the third. 
 Questions being put, who had beene seduced to this and that 
 execrable deed, Conscience or some Spirit cry'd Richard. 
 
 A True Discourse Of the King's Majesties Proceedings 
 against the Parliament and this Kingdome. . . . 
 Printed in the yeare 1643. [4to]. p. 6.
 
 SIR JOHN SUCKLING, 1646. 
 
 Now wc have taught our love to know 
 That it must creep where it cannot go. 
 
 Fragmenta Aurca. A Collection of all the In- 
 comparable Peeces, Written by Sir John 
 Suckling. . . . London, . . . 1646. (8vo). 
 p. 46. 
 
 Then 'twas the Waters Love that made it flow, 
 For Love will creep where well it cannot go. 
 
 The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling. London, 
 . . . 1659. (8vo). p. 26, 
 
 (It is of course possible that Suckling and Young [p. 3, a7ite] are merely 
 reproducing a commonplace, but the former was undoubtedly an admirer 
 of Shakespeare and the latter provides evidence that he also was, so 
 both may have been thinking of the Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv., 2, 
 20.) 
 
 JOHN TAYLOR, 1618. 
 
 Yet let none say he's broke or run away. 
 But as the wiser call't he did convey 
 Himselfe into a Church, in policic. 
 
 ' IIIIl'ANePfinOS, oranlronicall Expostulation 
 1648. L^to]. p. 3.
 
 RICHARD LOVELACE, 1610. 
 
 When flowing cups run swiftly round 
 With no allaying Thames. 
 
 Luctista . . . 1640. (Svo). p. 07. 
 
 (An imitation of "one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop 
 of allaying Tiljer in't," Coriolanus, II., i.). 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 165L 
 
 Sweating like butter'd Moons stew'd in their grease, 
 Blenching each bush like a Justice of Peace, 
 Serjeant or Constable 1 
 
 The Hue and Cry after those Ranil)lingProtonotaries 
 of the Times . . . London, 16.51. [4toJ. p. 3. 
 
 SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, 1653. 
 
 On my word (Cozen) this Piece is The taming of (he Shrew. 
 
 For my Honored Friend and Kinsman, John 
 Evelyn Esq. 
 
 (Dated Tankersley, 27 Dec, 1653.) 
 
 Prefixed to An Essay on the First Book of T. 
 Lucretius Carus . . . Interpreted and made 
 English by J. Evelyn Esq. . . . London : . . . 
 1656. [8vo]. p. 7.
 
 RICHARD FLECKNOE, 1653. 
 
 From thence passing on to Black-fryers, and seeing never 
 a Play-hil on the Gate, no Coaches on the place, nor Doorkeeper 
 at the riay-hoiise door, with his Boxe like a Church-warden, 
 desiring you to remember the poor Players, I cannot but say 
 for Epilogue to all the Playes were ever acted there : 
 
 Poor House, that in dayes of our Grand-sires 
 
 Belongst wito the mendiant Fryers : 
 
 And where so oft in our Fathers dayes 
 
 JVe have seen so many of Shakspears Playes. 
 
 A whimzey written from beyond seas, about the end 
 of the year, 52, to a Friend lately returned into 
 England. 
 
 Miscellania, or Poeme of all sorts with divers other 
 Pieces. Written by Richard Fleckno. . . . 
 London, Printed by T. R. for the Author, 
 M.D.C.LIII. [8vo]. pp. 141, 2. 
 
 RICHARD WHITLOCK, 1654. 
 
 Nor can any poore Reason but assentingly pronounce, 
 since mans inventions have brought him to this sad loss, that 
 his speculations are but a comedy of Errors, and his Imployments 
 Much ado about Nothing (to borrow our Comedians titles) that 
 the worlds husy man is the Grand Impertinent. 
 
 ZfiOTOMIA, or Observations on the Present Manners 
 of tlie English : . . . Loudon, . . . 1654. [8vo]. 
 p. 318.
 
 JOHN TOMKINS, 1655. 
 
 Though Wit as precious every Scene doth hold, 
 As Slutlcespeare's Lease (*? Leaf) or Johnson's massy Gold, 
 Though thou with swelling Canvas sail beyond 
 Hercules Pillars, Fletcher and Beaumont. 
 
 Before " Dia Poemata : , . . by E. E. . . . Printed 
 in the year, 1655." [8vo]. 
 
 RICHARD FLECKNOE, 1656. 
 
 This man but ill advised had been, 
 'Mongst other monsters he was not seen : 
 For pence apiece there in the faire 
 Had put down all the Monsters there. 
 Who Sir John Falstaff made an asso on 
 And of Goodman Puff of Barson. 
 
 The Diariuni, or Journal : . . . London, . . 1656. 
 [8vo]. p. 45. 
 
 The s humour, and resolute way of wooing, when he is 
 
 in King Cambyses vain . . . 
 
 Ibid. p. 97. 
 
 A Lover (such an one as Simple in love with Mrs. Anne 
 Page) . . . 
 
 Ibid. p. 103.
 
 10 
 
 SIR ASTON COKAIN, 1658. 
 The First Eglogue. 
 
 Stre. lie is an able Lad indeed, and likes 
 
 Arcadian Pastorals, and (willing) strikes 
 A Plaudite to th' Epilogues of those 
 Happy Inventions Shaksiihere did compose ; 
 
 Small Poems of Divers Sorts . . . 1658. [Svo]. 
 p. 27. 
 
 On the death of my very good Friend Mr. Michael Drayton. 
 
 You Swans of Avon, change your fates, and all 
 Sing, and then die at Drayton's Funeral : 
 Sure shortly there will not a drop be seen, 
 And the smooth-pebbled Bottom be turn'd green, 
 When the Nymphes (that inhabit in it) have 
 (As they did Shakespecre) wept thee to thy grave. 
 
 Ihid. p. 67. 
 
 EDWARD PHILLIPS, 1658. 
 
 There will be occasion to peruse the works of our ancient 
 Poets, as Geffnj Chamer the greatest in his time, for the honour 
 of our Nation ; as also some of our more Modern Poets, as 
 Spencer, Sidny, Draiton, Tkinid, with our Reformers of the 
 Scene, Johnson, Shalesphear, Beaumont, and Fletcher . . . 
 
 The New World ot English Words : London . . . 
 1658. [fol.]. a3 verso.
 
 11 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1659. 
 
 The Players h;ivc a Play, where they bring in a Tinker, 
 and make him believe himself a Lord, and when they have 
 satislied their humour, they made him a plain Tinker again ; 
 Gentlemen, but that this was a great while agoe, I should 
 have thought this Play had been made of me : for if ever two 
 cases were alike, 'tis the Tinkers and mine. 
 
 The Lord Henry Cromwel's Speach in the House . . . 
 Printed, Anno Doni . . . 1659. [4to]. p. 5. 
 
 PETER HEYLYN AND THOMAS FULLEK, 1659. 
 
 I)K. Heylyn. 
 
 . . . like Sir John Falstaffe in the Play, who to shew his 
 Valour, must thrust his sword into the Bodies of those men 
 which were dead before. 
 
 Fuller. 
 
 The Animadvertor hath wronged me, and the Comedian 
 
 hath wronged Sir John Falstaffe. He was a valiant Knight, 
 
 famous for his At^heivements in France, made ^as the History 
 
 of St. George testifieth) Knight of the Garter by King Henry 
 
 the Sirt, and one who disdained to violate the Concernments 
 
 of the Dead. 
 
 The Appeal of Iniured Innocence : . . . London, 
 . . . 1U59. [fol.]. PartL p. 62. 
 
 (The passage quoted from Heylyn occurs in his Kxanien Historicuin.)
 
 12 
 
 HENRY BOLD, 1660. 
 
 Jack Falstaffe vildly did abate, 
 But never surely, at the rate 
 That I have done, since action last 
 I've no man's length of life i'th waste. 
 
 Choyce Poems, being Songs, Sonnets, Satyrs and 
 Elegies, by the Wits of both Universities. 
 London, . . . 1061. [Svo]. p. 9. 
 
 The piece from which these lines are quoted is dated 
 at the end, March 27, 1660. 
 
 NAT. WILDOE ipsetul), 1661. 
 
 Beat me this Buckram Rogue, Falslajfe, to seven, 
 Nay, if thou wilt, beat him into eleven. 
 
 Doctor Cooper at Work upon Dauncey's Bones. And 
 Cook licking his Fingers after his Dose and Pill. 
 London. Printed for the Author, 1661. A fol. 
 Broadside.
 
 13 
 
 FRANCIS KIKKMAX, 10G2. 
 
 And yet our modesty will make us vail 
 To worthy Sidney, nor can wc bear sail 
 Against these fam'd Dramaticks, one past age 
 Was blest with Julmson, who so grac't the stage, 
 The thrice renowned Shalespear, and the rare 
 Ingenuous Fletcher. These past envy are 
 Much more past imitation only we 
 Would second be o' th' first, last of the three. 
 
 The Bookseller to the Reader. 
 
 The English Lovei-3 : . . . By the accurate Pen of 
 /. D. Cent. London . . . 1UG2. [Svo]. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1663. 
 
 whereupon Mr. Greenhil held forth upon those words 
 of the eighth Psalm (Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings 
 hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou 
 mightst still the Enemy and the Avenger :) Out of Mr. Mead's 
 Diatriba, three (juarters of an hour by Shreusbury-Clock, as Sir 
 John Falstaffe speaks, in the third of Edward the fourth and 
 the fifteenth. 
 
 Cabala, or an Impartial Account of the Non- 
 conformists Private Designs, . . . London, 
 printed in the year M.D.C.LXIIL [4to]. 
 pp. 7-8.
 
 14 
 
 HENRY BOLD, 1664. 
 
 Jack ui-g'd me to 't I made not any word, 
 Disliking Bardolph's Edge of penny Cord, 
 And vile reproach. 
 
 Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroiqiie, &c., by Henry 
 Bold . . . London, . . . 1604. [8vo]. p. 137. 
 
 Here lyes curst JFehh, who living, spun though short, 
 So fair a thread, a Halter Choakt him for't. 
 For Bardolph's like 'twas cut with vile reproaches 
 And Edge of Penny-Cord — so Bonas noches ! 
 
 Ibid. p. 191.
 
 15 
 
 ANONYMOUS, ir,f,4. 
 Meny Deoii of i^^en Sviug aiicl Ht^-isus, Faulsluff' and tlie rout 
 
 Edmunton. ^ 
 
 Htnrv i. Broke from thy Lips, to make us face about : 
 
 The Humurciis „,. , . , . -ii 7> i 
 
 Lieuu-nant. Bliuu lu our hastc, Will Bessus run awayt 
 ii.rc 0/ renice. y^^ j^ j^^e mouth of danger get the day ; 
 And thy Lieutenant in his Drinh-matl-fight 
 To gain those Trophies which was but thy 
 
 right. 
 ! but lago, when we think on thee, 
 Not to applaud thy vice of Flattery : 
 Yet must that Part never in our thoughts dye. 
 Since thou didst Act, not mean that Subtilly : 
 
 An Egley [sic) Upon the Most Execrable Murther of 
 Mr. Chin . . . who was Rob'd and most 
 inhumanely Kill'd oil . . . 2nd ol Auyiist, 1664 
 . . . fol. Broadside. 
 
 RICHARD FLECKNOE, 1668. 
 
 Nay even Shakespear, whom he thought to have found 
 bis greatest PViend, was as much otl'ended with him as any of 
 the rest, for so spoiling and mangling of his Plays. 
 
 Sr. William Davenant's Voyage to the Other World 
 . . . 1668. [8vo]. pp. 8-9.
 
 16 
 
 ANONYMOUS (1668). 
 
 Imagine him encircled in a Sphere 
 Of those Great Souls who once admir'd him here : 
 First, Johnson doth demand a share in him, 
 For both their Muses whip'd the vice of time : 
 Then Shakespear next a Brothers part doth claim. 
 Because their quick Inventions were the same. 
 
 An Elegy upon tlie Death of Sr. William Davenant. 
 A small fol. Broadside, without place, date or 
 printer's name. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1673. 
 
 Thus was he [Dryden] (forsooth) taken to Task, Post- 
 poned, and there Lash'd on both sides by the two, too unkind 
 Universities, Oxford first taking him up, while his Mother 
 Cambridge Chastised him severely . . . and next for abusing 
 his Grandsire Shakespeare, and Father Ben, and being very 
 sawcy with others of his Elders. 
 
 Raillerie a La Mode Consider'd : or the Supercilious 
 Detractor. . . . London . . . il.D.C.LXXIIL 
 [Svo]. pp. 25-G.
 
 17 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1073. 
 
 Now empty shows must want of sense supply, 
 Angels shall dance and Macheth's Witches fly : 
 
 Epilogue to The Ordinary. A Collection of Poeina 
 written upon several Occasions By several 
 Persons. London, 1073. [8vo|. p. 167.
 
 18 
 
 HON. EDWARD HOWARD, 1673. 
 
 The witty Fletcher, and Elaborate Ben, 
 And Shakespeare, had the first Dramatique Pen : • 
 In most of their admired Scenes we prove, 
 Their Business or their Passion turns to Love. 
 
 Poems, And Essays : . . . By a Gentleman of Quality 
 . . . London, . . . 1673. [8vo]. p. 13. 
 
 Thus Johnson's Wit we still admire. 
 With Beaumont, Fletch&r's lasting fire : 
 And mighty Shalespear's nimble vein, 
 Whose haste we only now complain. 
 His Muse first post was fain to go, 
 That first from him we Plays might know. 
 
 Ibid. p. 66. 
 
 Shakespear, Beaumont, Fletcher and Johnson, must be nothing 
 with them, though such majestick strength of Wit and Judge- 
 ment is due to their Dramatique pieces. 
 
 Ihid. Miscellanies, p. 24. 
 
 Ben Johnson said of Shakespear's Works, that where he 
 made one blot, he wiah'd he had made a thousand : 
 
 Ibid. p. 81.
 
 19 
 
 C. B. (1073?). 
 
 who shall play Sfephano now? your Tempest's gone, 
 To raise new Storms i' th' hearts of every one. 
 
 An Elegy Upon tliat Incomparable Comedian, Mr. 
 Edwaifl Angell, W'riKen by C. B. A small fo). 
 broadside, no place, date, or printer's name. 
 
 C. F., 1674. 
 
 An Epitaph on a merry Wife of Windsor, that died of the 
 Stone in her Bladder. 
 
 Wit at a Venture : or, Clio's Privy-Garden, . . . 
 London, . . . 1674. [8vn]. p. 21.
 
 20 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1675. 
 
 A Neighbour did say, 
 
 She'd an excellent way 
 To inrich bad Land that is spent : 
 
 So much wou'd she sweat, 
 
 As she walkt with heat. 
 To Lard the Lean Earth as she went. 
 
 Mock Songs and Joking Poems all Novel : ... by 
 the Author of Westminster Drollery. London, 
 . . . lt)75. [8vo]. p. 19. 
 
 R. WfllTCOMBE. If. 7 8. 
 
 Sometimes to look, my Fancy did incline, 
 In the dark backward, and abiss of time ; 
 
 Janua Divorum : Or the Lives and Histories Of The 
 Heathen Gods, Goddesses, & Demi-Gods. . . . 
 London, . . . 167S. (8vo). p. 14.
 
 21 
 
 SAMUEL BUTLER, 1G78. 
 
 I found th' Infernal Cunning-man, 
 And th' L^ndcrwitch his Caliban, 
 
 Hiulihras. The Tliinl and last Part. Written by 
 tlic Author Of the First and Second Parts. 
 London, . . . 1G78. [8vo]. Canto I., U., 
 281-2. 
 
 PETER PARKER, 1678. 
 
 Books Printed for and soukl by Pelcr Fader, at the Leg 
 and Star, right against the lioi/al Exchange in ConihiU. 
 
 The Rape of Lxicrccc, committed by Tanixin the sixth, and 
 the remarkal^le judgements that befell him for it, by that 
 incomparable master of our English Podry, IFill Shakespcar, 
 8". 
 
 Tliis Catalof^uc is found at tlie end of Hudibras. The 
 Third and last Part. 1G78. [8voJ.
 
 22 
 
 WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, 1678. 
 
 Many wounds may be now received by Loves Dualists, 
 some stabb'd dead with a white wenches black eye ; others 
 run through the ear with a Love-song ; and some others, the 
 very pin of their heart cleft with the blind Bow-boyes But- 
 shaft. 
 
 Poor Roljiu, 1678. An Almanack After a New 
 Fashion. . . . London, . . . [8vo]. Observa- 
 tions on October. 
 
 All that follow their noses are led by their eyes, but only 
 blind men ; and there's not a nose among twenty, but can 
 smell him that's stinking. A man can no more separate age 
 and covetousness, than he can part young limbs and lechery : 
 but the Gowt galls the one, and the Pox pinches the other. 
 Horses are tyed by the heads. Dogs and Bears by the neck, 
 Monkies by the loins, and men by the legs, but he that is tyed 
 in a matrimonial noose to a scold, had as good be tyed up from 
 his meat at the three corner'd Tenement betwixt London and 
 Paddingion. 
 
 Ibid. Observations on November. 
 
 so that we shall now have every thing fit, and (as the 
 Comedian hath it) as fit as ten groats is for the hand of an 
 Atturney, as your French Crown for your Taflety Punk, as 
 Tibs Rush for Toms forefinger, as a Pancake for Shrove- 
 Tuesday, a Morris for May-day, as the Nail to his hole, the 
 Cuckold to his horn, as a scolding Quean to a wrangling 
 Knave, as the Nuns lip to the Fryers month, or as the 
 pudding to his skin. 
 
 Ibid. C 2.
 
 23 
 
 The great Mathematician and Philosopher Andrew Argol 
 makes this Eclipse to fall just in the Dragons Tayl ; which 
 if true, then saj's our famous Astronomer William Shake- 
 speare, those that are born under the effects of this 
 Eclipse will be rough and lecherous : This is the excellent 
 Foppery of the World, that when we are sick in fortune, 
 often the surfeits of our own l)chaviour, we make guilty 
 of our disasters the Sun, the Moon and Stars, us if we 
 Avere Villains on necessity, Fools by heavenly compulsion, 
 Knaves, Thieves and treacherous by spherical predomi- 
 nance and Planetary influence : 
 
 Ibid. C 3. 
 
 There arc i)ersons which hate the day, wishing the Flours 
 thereof were Cups of Sack, the minutes Capons, Clocks the 
 tongues of Bawds, Dials the signs of Leaping Houses, and 
 the Sun himself a fair hot wench in flame coloured taffata : 
 these must be stiled Stiuires of the Nights body. Diana's 
 Foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, and Minions of the 
 moon, for the fortune of these moons men doth ebb and 
 flow like the sea, being governed as the sea is by the 
 Moon ; sometimes in a low Ebb at the foot of the 
 Ladder, and by and by in as high a flow at the ridge 
 of the Gallows. 
 
 Ibid. C 4 verfo.
 
 24 
 
 When the heart is merry with a Cup of Sherry, they 
 sing dou-n derry, as the Comedian hath it, 
 
 Be merry, be merry, my Gallants all, 
 For women are Shrews both short and tall ; 
 'Tis merry in Mall when beards wagg all : 
 A Cup of wine that's brisk and fine, 
 Doth make our hearts full merry, &c. 
 
 Ibid. C 5 veno. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1679. 
 
 Such noise, such stink, such smoke there was, you'd swear 
 
 The Tempest surely had been acted there. 
 
 The cryes of star-board, Lar-board, cheeily boys. 
 
 Is but as demy rattles to this noise. 
 
 The Country Club. A Poem. London : . . . 1679. 
 [4to]. p. 2.
 
 25 
 
 WILLIAM WINSTANLLY, 1G80. 
 
 The weather makes us blow our nails, 
 And milk comes frozen home in pails. 
 
 Poor Robin, 1G80. An Almanack After a New 
 Fashion. [Svu]. A 4 verso. 
 
 THOMAS SHAD WELL, 1680. 
 
 Fool But for all that, Shakespear's Fools had more Avit 
 than any of the Wits and Criticks now-a days. 
 
 The WomanCapLain . . . 1680. [4to]. Act I., 
 sc. i. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1681. 
 
 Jest. Well so much by the way of Query, honest Brother 
 Earnest, I have appointed an assignation with the merry 
 Wives of JFiiulsur, and therefore beg your pardon. 
 
 Heraclitus Ridcns : Or A Dialogue behreen Jest and 
 Earnest, conceniiny the Times. Numb. 3, Feb. 
 15, 1681. fol.
 
 2l 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1681. 
 
 Xed. But prithee JVil. tell me now, what wou'dst thou 
 have a body do 1 Suppose now that La:arello of Tonnes and 
 the Knight of the Oracle should take their Corpulent Oaths 
 before Mr. Brushum, That seven Pilgrims in Buckram, with 
 every one a brown Bill in his Pocket, knock'd thee (or say 
 me) i' th' head yester-evening about six a clock (or say between 
 six and seven, to be sure) should either thou or I (think'st 
 thou) be such wicked profligate Unbelievers, as to give no 
 credit to the Evidence especially since in such Cases (as Gaffer 
 Whisker the Constable tells us) they swear for the King ] 
 
 The Swearijig-Mastei- ; Or A Conference Between two 
 Country-Fellows Concerning the Times. London : 
 . . . 1681. two leaves, sm. fol. p. 4. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1681. 
 
 Our English writers are all Transmigrate 
 In Pamphlet penners and diurnal Scribes, 
 AYanton Comedians and foul Gypsy Tribes, 
 Not like those brave Heroick sublime strains 
 That wrote the Cesars and their noble Reigns, 
 Nor like those learned Poets so divine 
 That penn'd iMaddvff, and famous Caialine. 
 
 The Character Of Wits Squint-Ey'd Maid, Pasquil- 
 Makers. London . . . 1681. Broadside fol.
 
 27 
 
 EDMUND HICKERIXGILL, 1682. 
 
 Fight on Macduff, 
 And let him fall that first says, Hokl .' enough. 
 
 Scandalum Magnadim ; Or the (ireat Trial at 
 Chelmsford Assizes, . . . 16S2. ful. p. 32. 
 
 The scabbard's thrown away — Come on Maaluff, 
 And Coward he that first says — Hold ! enough. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1682. 
 
 Then waking (like the Tinker in the Play) 
 She finds the golden Vision fled away. 
 
 Prulogvie. Written lij- a Friend. Ravenscroft's The 
 London Cuckolds. [4to]. 1682. 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1682. 
 
 Sir Char. . . . Oh ! may I feed on Grass, Roots, Berries, 
 Acorns ; drink the gi'een puddle of the standing Poole ; 
 
 The Royalist . . . London. [4to]. lt3S2. p. 16.
 
 28 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 16S2. 
 
 If no one were to write Dramaticks, unless they could equall 
 the Immortal Johnson and Shakespear ; or Heroicks, unless 
 they stood Competitors with the Incomparable Cowley or 
 Drydcn ; I fear the Town would lose the diversion both of 
 Plays and Poems. 
 
 Butler's (ihost : or, Huilibi'aa, the Fourth Part, . . . 
 * 1682. [8vo]. The Preface. A 3 verso. 
 
 Like thee (the owl) to Corners dark we range, 
 And to thy shape are often chang'd. 
 Instead of Knights, renown'd for Slaughter, 
 As thou wert once to Baker's Daughter. 
 
 Ibid. p. 22. 
 
 For as a Christian Merchant drew, 
 
 And seal'd a Bond once to a Jew, 
 
 A Pound of Flesh should th' Forfeit pay, 
 
 If he did fail, and break his Day : 
 
 AVhich happening, and th' IiiHdel 
 
 To weigh the Flesh had fetch t a Scale, 
 
 The Merchant cries, your Bond is good 
 
 For Flesh, but not one drop of Blood ; 
 
 If thou spills't that, thou murder'st me. 
 
 And then the Law takes hold on thee. 
 
 Ibid. pp. 36-7.
 
 29 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1683. 
 
 and wherever they shall for the future happen to come, I 
 doubt not but they will make good that of the incomparable 
 Shakcspear ; 
 
 Not Marble, nor the gilded Monument 
 
 Of Princes shall out-live this powerful Line ; 
 
 But you shall shine more bright in this Content, 
 
 Than dusty Trophies soil'd with sluttish time. 
 
 'Gainst Death and all oblivions Enmity, 
 
 Still shall you live, your Praise shall still find room 
 
 Ev'n in the Eyes of all Posterity ; 
 
 Were this frail World siuik to its final Doom. 
 
 So till in Judgment you again shall rise, 
 
 You live in this, and dwell in Lovers Eyes. 
 
 Eromena ; Or, The Noble Stranger. A Novel. Lon- 
 don, . . . 1683. [8vo]. From the Dedication. 
 
 ROGER L'ESTRANGE, 1683. 
 
 But Fahtaff I find was much in the Bight, in his Exclamation 
 [There's no Faith in Villainons Man.] 
 
 The Obaervator. Numb. 414. Wednesday, October 
 3, 1683. fol.
 
 30 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1684. 
 
 And tell each Spartan to his face, 
 
 They are all degenerate and base : 
 
 That those who us'd to fight with Half-stafl", 
 
 Are dwindl'd now into a Faljstaff. 
 
 The Scoffer Scoffed, The Second Part . . . London, 
 . . . 1684. lol. p. 8. 
 
 HENRY BOLD, 1685. 
 
 New-gates black Dog or Pistols Island Cur 
 Was probably this Sire's Progenitor. 
 
 Latine Songs, With their English : and Poems. By 
 Henry Bold, . . . IG80. [8vo]. The piece 
 from which the above couplet is quoted was 
 written beiore 1660.
 
 81 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1G85. 
 
 But after All that Art can Here Bestow, 
 They shall Perfumes upon the Violets strew ; 
 They Gxiild Bcftncd-Gohl with Care and Pain. 
 
 An Elegy upon His late Majesty (of Blessed Memory) 
 King Charles the Second : London, . . . 
 
 MDCLXXX^'. fol. broadside. 
 
 C. CLEEVE, 1685. 
 For scatter'd o'er the Bottom of the Deep, 
 
 Lay Anchors, Helmets, shatter'd Bones, 
 Lay Heaps of Jewels, and unvalued Stones ; 
 Some were lodg'd in dead Men's Skulls, 
 And in the self-same Holes, 
 Where Eyes of old did dwell with their Enlivening 
 Beams, 
 There were hid reflecting Gems. 
 
 The Songs Of Mosea and Deborah Paraphraa'd, with 
 Poems Ou several Occasions . . . London . . . 
 MPCLXXXV. [8vo]. p. 2.
 
 32 
 
 HENRY HIGDEN, 1686. 
 
 If to divert his Pangs he try 
 Choice musick, mirth or Company, 
 Like Bancoe's Ghost, his ugly Sin, 
 To marr his Jollity, stalks in. 
 
 A Modern Essay On the Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal 
 . . . London, 1U86. [4to]. p. 45. 
 
 Bath'd in cold Sweats he frighted Shreiks 
 At visions bloodier than King Dicks. 
 
 Ibid. p. 47. 
 
 Bancoes Ghost. In the Tragedy of Macheth, where the 
 coming in of the Ghost disturbs and interrupts the Entertain- 
 ment. 
 
 Vision Dicks. In the Tragedy of Richard the 3rd. 
 
 Ibid. Author's notes. 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1G88. 
 Lyon. A Horse ; a Horse ; my Kingdom for a Horse : 
 
 The Fool's Preferment, Or, The Three Dukes of 
 punstable . . . 1688. [4to]. p. 4.3.
 
 33 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1688. 
 
 'Tis time to cry out, God bless poor sinful Women, when 
 Sack and Sugar comes to be a Crime. 
 
 The Pleasures Of Miitriniony, Intermixed with 
 Variety of Merry and Deli'^htful StoiieH . . . 
 London, . . . lt)88. [8vo]. p. 140. 
 
 NATHANIEL LEE, 1689. 
 
 Pol. To your Husband, to your Head, to your Lord and 
 Master, you will not Goodey Bathsheha, but you cou'd stoop 
 your swines Flesh last night you cou'd to your Kank Bravado, 
 that wou'd have struck his Tusks in my Guts ; he had you 
 with a Beck, a snort, nay o' my Conscience thou wou'dst not 
 have given him time to speak, but hunch'd him on the side 
 like a full Acoru'd Boar, cry'd Oh ! and mounted 
 
 The Princess of Cleve, 1689. [4to]. Act. V., sc. i.
 
 34 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1690. 
 
 Leu (casia) ... it seem'd to me as preposterous as to see 
 
 the Bear making Love to the Gentlewoman with the Bears 
 
 face, or the woman in Shakespeare, kissing the fellow with the 
 
 Asses-head. 
 
 The Folly of Priest-Craft. A Comedy. London,... 
 1090. [4to]. p. 18. 
 
 I 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1690. 
 
 He saw each Box with Beauty crown'd, 
 And Pictures deck the Structure round ; 
 Jjen, Shakespear, and the learned Eout, 
 With noses some, and some without. 
 
 Collin's Walk through London and Westminster. 
 . . . London, . . . 1690. [8vo]. p. 149.
 
 36 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1G91. 
 
 The Age grows more poignant every day than other ; and 
 as immortal Shalespear says, the Toe of the Peasant treads so 
 near the Heel of the Courtier, that it galls his Kibe. 
 
 Bussy D'Anibois, . . . London, . . . 1G91. (4tu). 
 Dedication. A 2 verso. 
 
 ANONYiMOUS, 1G91. 
 
 To tell you the truth, as Mr. Dryden sacrifices a Bussy 
 d'Amhois to the memory of Ben Johnson, I sacrifice one of these 
 yearly to the memory of Shakespear, Butler, and Oldham. 
 
 Wit for Money : . . . 1691. [4to]. p. 4. 
 
 Even so, witness his laying violent hands on SImkespear and 
 
 Fletcher, whose plays he hath altered so much for the worse, 
 
 like the Persecutors of Old, killing their living Beauties by 
 
 joining them to his dead lameless Deformities. 
 
 Ibid. p. 10.
 
 36 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1692. 
 
 L. Brain. A Player, ha ha ha, why now you liave, 
 Madam, 
 
 Dareivel, Thou canst witness the contrary of that, thou 
 toldst me her Breeding was such, that she had been 
 familiar with Kings and Queens. 
 
 Darew. Ay my Lord in the Play-house, I told ye she was 
 a High Flyer too, that is, I have seen her upon a Machine in 
 the Tempest. 
 
 L. Brain, In the Tempest, why then I suppose I may seek 
 her fortune in the inchanted Island. 
 
 The Marriage-Hater Match'd : . . . London, . . . 
 1692. [4 to], p. 50.
 
 37 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1602. 
 
 P. P. ... I heard she was damnably netlcd, but that's all 
 one, then let the strickoji Dear go weep, as Hamlet says ; 
 
 Poeta Infamis : Or, a Poet not worth Hanging. Being 
 A Dialogue between Lyitander Valentine and Poet 
 Pricket . . . London : . . . 1692. [4to]. p. 9. 
 
 Vol. Prithee, why dost thou not turn Actor, thou mightst 
 
 supply the Stage both ways, like a ShaJcespcar, a Baltcrlon, or 
 
 a Mountford ; 
 
 Ibid. p. 13. 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1693. 
 
 Hotsp. Peat, peat, peat ! What a Plague can any one 
 above the Degree of a Kitchin, love a Fellow that makes 
 Fritters of English, as FaUtaffe says? 
 
 The Richmond Heiress . . . London, . . . 1693. 
 
 [4toJ. p. 7.
 
 38 
 
 JAMES WRIGHT, 1694. 
 
 But I beseech you Gentlemen, how comes this unmodish 
 Opinion in you, against the Plays in Fashion 1 I'll tell you, 
 continued Lisander, methinks they have nccther the Wit, 
 Conduct, Honour, nor Design of those writ by Johnson, ShaJc- 
 spear, and Fletcher. 
 
 Country Conversations : Being an Account of some 
 Discourses . . . Cheafly Of tlie Modern Comedies, 
 . . . London, . . . 1693. [8vo]. p. 3. 
 
 The Applause that is given them proves, as the Common 
 
 Phrase is, but a Nine Days Wonder. Whereas there is hardly 
 
 a scene in Shakspeare (tho he writ near 100 years since) but 
 
 we have it still in Admiration, for the Vivacity of the Wit, 
 
 the Justness of the Character, and the True, Natural, and 
 
 Proper Expression. 
 
 Ibid. p. i. 
 
 Whereupon Jtdio, in a long Discourse, produced out of Ben. 
 Johnson, Shakspcar, Beamnont and Fletcher, Messenger, Shirley, 
 and Sir JFilliam Davenant, before the Wars, and some Come- 
 dies of Mr. Drydens, since the Restauration, many Characters 
 of Gentlemen, of a quite different Strain from those in the 
 
 Modern Plays. 
 
 Ibid. p. 16.
 
 39 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1691. 
 
 In Shakespear read the Reason mixt with Rage, 
 When Bnihis with fierce Cassius does engage 
 In loud Expostulations in the Tent, 
 The heights of Passion, Turns, and the Descent 
 Observe, and what th' art likely to despise, 
 Is that in which th' Excellence chiefly lies. 
 
 Innocui Sales. A Collection Of New Epigrams. 
 Vol. I. . . . London, . . . 1694. [8vo]. p. 16. 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1695. 
 
 Give Sorrow words, the Grief that does not speak 
 Whispers the o're-charg'd Heart, and bids it break. 
 
 Shakespear. 
 
 On the title-page of Urania. A Funeral Ekyy. 
 [on the death of Queen Mary]. 1695. [4to].
 
 40 
 
 JOHN OLDMIXON, 1696. 
 
 Pity me Sergeant, I'm undone, 
 To-morrow comes my Tryal on ; 
 R~r comes out and you will see 
 With the same Cannon he will roar, 
 Which maul'd poor Shakespear heretofore. 
 
 Poems on Several Occasions . . . London. 
 1696. [8vo]. p. 57. 
 
 T. BROWN, 1697. 
 May he lock you up from the sight of all Ma'.ikind, and 
 leave you nothing but your ill Conscience to keep you company, 
 till at last between his penurious allowance and the sense of 
 your own guilt, you make so terrible a figure, that the worst 
 Witch in Mackbeth would seem an Angel to you. 
 
 Familiar Letters : . . . 1697. [8vo]. p. 170.
 
 41 
 
 EDWARD FILMER, 1698. 
 
 How often is the good Actor (as for Instance, the lago in 
 the Moor of Venice, or the Countess of Nolingham in the Earl 
 of Essex) little less than Curst for Acting an 111 Part? 
 
 A Defence Of Dramatick Poetry : Being A Review 
 Of Mr. Colliers View . . . London : . . . 1698. 
 [8vo]. p. 72. 
 
 Thus we pity Timon of Athens, not as the Libertine nor 
 Prodigal, but the Misanthropos : When his Manly and Generous 
 Indignation against the Universal Ingratitiulc of Mankind 
 makes him leave the World and fly the Society of Man ; when 
 his open'd Eyes and recollected Virtue can stand the Temp- 
 tation of a Treasure be found in the Woods, enough to 
 purchase his own Estate again : When all this glittering Mine 
 of Gold has not Charm to bribe him back into a hated World, 
 to the Society of Villains, Hypocrites, and Flatterers. 
 
 Ih'id. p. 73. 
 
 [The second ijuotation refers prinimily to yiiadwell's play].
 
 42 
 
 EDWARD FILMEK, 1698. 
 
 'Tis true the Name of God may sometimes but rarely be 
 
 used, as for instance by Cardinal Woolsey after his disgrace, in 
 
 the Play of Henry the Eighth. 
 
 Had I but served my God with half that Zeal 
 
 I serv'd my King, he would not in my Age 
 
 Have left me Naked to my Enemies. 
 
 But here both the Solemness of the Occasion, and these 
 
 the Express words of Woolsey, taken from the Chronicle, excuse 
 
 this Liberty. 
 
 A Farther Defence of Dramatick Poetry : Being the 
 Second Part of the Review of Mr. Colliers View 
 . , . London : . . . 1698. [8vo]. p. 51. 
 
 'Tis true, Here is Swearing by way or all of the Three 
 Persons in the Godhead, or speaking, or using their Holy 
 Names, nz. Jestingly or Profanely (so that Cardinal Woolsey's 
 Naming of God, as mentioned before, falls not under this 
 Premunire) is expressly forbidden by this Act. 
 
 Ibid. p. 57.
 
 43 
 
 THOMAS DURFEY, 1698. 
 
 A little while after, at the usual rate of his own accustom'd 
 civility, he falls upon the Renoion'd Shahespear, and says, he is 
 so guilty, that he is not fit to make an Evidence. Why now 
 if 't were possible for his Complexion to blush, there's ne're a 
 Robe of any Friend Cardinal the Absolver has at Home, that 
 can be redder than his would be for such a Position : Nor 
 does it end here, but is mixt with some more foolish and 
 insolent Remarks in another place, upon the admirable 
 Tragedy of Hamlet. And here he has no other way to shew 
 his malice, but by ridiculously quibbling upon the prettiest 
 Character in it, the innocent young Virgin Ophelia, who, 
 because the Poet makes her run mad for the death of her 
 Father, and loss of her Lover, and consequently makes her 
 sing and speak some idle extravagant things, as on such 
 an occasion is natural, and at last drown her self, he very 
 masterly tells us, the Poet, since he was resolv'd to drown her like 
 a Kitten, should Juive set her a swimming a little sooner ; to keep 
 her alive, only to sidly her Repxdation, is very cruel. Yes, but I 
 would fain ask Doctor Absolution in what she has sullied her 
 Reputation, I am sure five hundred Audiences that have 
 view'd her could never find it out, tho he has ; but the 
 Absolver can't help being positive and jmrtial to his own 
 humour, tho he were to be hang'd, as the Lady was drown'd, 
 for he is very angi-y in another place with the aforesaid 
 Author, for making Sir Hugh Evens {sic) in the Merry JTives of 
 Windsor, a silly, eating, chattering Welch Priest, but vindicates 
 and speaks well of Sir John, Parson of Wrotham, in the History 
 of Sir John Oldcastle ; tho he swears, games, wenches, pads, 
 tilts and drinks, and does things which our Reformers Guts 
 are ready to come up at another time, only, forsooth, because
 
 44 
 
 he is stout ; but 'tis indeed only because he is a Parson, and 
 sullen, which he thinks wise, for he cannot endure that Copy- 
 hold should be touch'd, as you may see more plainly a little 
 further, where he says in Laves Labour Lost, the Curate plays 
 the fool egregiously ; and so does the Poet too : there he 
 clenches the Nail, there he gives Shakespear a bold stroke, 
 there obstinacy and malice appear in true colours : And yet 
 if a parcel of the ones Plays, were set up by way of Auction 
 against t'othcrs Sermons and Essays ; nay, tho the Loyal and 
 Politick Desertion discussed was thrown in to boot, I know not 
 what the Grave would do, but I am sure the wise would 
 ({uickly find [the] difference. And yet to Eemark him nicely, 
 this humour of railing is only where the Poets do not suit 
 with his design ; for in another place you'll find this same 
 Shakespear, that was before too guilty to make an Evidence, 
 a very civil person now ; for the Reformer is troubl'd with 
 Fits, you must know, disturbances i' th' brain, which makes 
 him forget one hour what he rails at another, for here now 
 Shakespear's Falstaff is call'd the admir'd, because he is to 
 serve his turn. And that the Poet was not so partial as to 
 let his humour compouiul for his lewdness, but punishes him at 
 last, tho he makes him all his life time a damnable smutty 
 fellow. 
 
 The Campaigners : . . . London, . . . 1698. [4to]. 
 Preface, pp. 9-10.
 
 45 
 
 And I hope I shall live to see the Master of Art have 
 
 Modesty enough to thank me for 't ; or else (for my fancy 
 
 wou'd fain oblige him if it cou'd) to make it more German to 
 
 the matter, as Shakespear has it, to call 'em Colliers would be 
 
 as significant as any thing ; 
 
 Ibid. i>. 11. 
 
 Ben Johnson found out Ananias and Eahby Buisy, Fletcher, 
 Hypocritical Roger, SJuiLespear, Sir John of IVrotham ; 
 
 Ibid. p. 14.
 
 46 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1699. 
 
 Then when we have mix'd all these noble ingredients, 
 which, generally speaking, are as bad as those the Witches in 
 Mackbeth jumble in the Caldron together to make a Charm, we 
 fall too Contentedly, and sport off an afternoon. 
 
 A Collection Of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc., By 
 Mr. Brown, etc. . . . London, . . . 1699. 
 [8vo]. p. 318. 
 
 I can answer for no body's palat but my own : and cannot 
 help saying with the fat Knight in Henry the Fourth If 
 sack and sugar is a sin, the Lord have mercy on the wicked. 
 
 Ibid. p. 327. 
 
 (The letter containing the two passages above is dated "June 2, 
 92.") 
 
 Even that Pink of Courtesie, Sir John Falstaff in the Play, 
 
 who never was a niggard of his lungs, yet wou'd not answer 
 
 one word when the Must was put upon him. IVere Reasons, 
 
 says that affable Knight, as cheap as Black-berries I wou'd not 
 
 give you one upon compulsion, which is but another word for 
 
 Duty. 
 
 Ibid. p. 338.
 
 47 
 
 ANONYMOUS, 1699. 
 
 'Tis true Life is more supportable this morning, then 
 yesterday : For, if Hamlet had not been murther'd at the 
 Play-house last night, I had been worse then dead to Day. 
 
 Familiar Letters : Vol. II. Containing Thirty Six 
 Letters, By the Right Honourable John, late 
 Karl of Rochester . . . London . . . 1G99. 
 L8vo]. p. 116. 
 
 EDWAKD WARD, 1G99. 
 
 and made my Hair stand as Bolt upright, as the Quills of 
 an angry Porcupine. 
 
 The London Spy. For the Month Of May, 1699. 
 Part VII. London, . . . 1G99. (fol.) p. 15.
 
 48 
 
 EDWARD WARD, 1700. 
 
 Then having a second Summons to depart we quitted the 
 Bar, and dispens'd some loose Corns to the Prisoners to drink 
 our Healths, and likewise one to the Reverend Doctor : took 
 leave of our Friend, and departed well satisfied with the 
 Sight and Intrigues of Liulgate, which I shall conclude with a 
 saying of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. 
 
 Then let the stricken Deer go Weep, 
 
 The Hart Ungall'd go Play ; 
 For some must Watch, while some do Sleep, 
 Thus runs the World away. 
 
 The Metaniorphos'd Beau : Or, The Intrigues of Lud- 
 gate. Londou, . . . 1700. [fol.] p. 16.
 
 INDEX 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 A Helpe to Discourse, 1634, 2 
 
 .1 leaf in MS., 1038, 4 
 
 ,4 True Discourse, 1643, 5 
 
 Tlie Hue and Cry, 1651, 7 
 
 The Lord Henrii Cromwel's Speech, 1651), 11 
 
 Cabala, 1GG3, 13 
 
 An Eleijij on Mr. Clun, 1004, 15 
 
 An Elegy on Sir WilUain Davenant , (1668), 16 
 
 Radlerie a La Mode, 1073, 16 
 
 Epdogue to The Ordinary, 1673, 17 
 
 Mock Songs, 1675, 20 
 
 The Country Club, 1679, 24 
 
 lleraclitus Ridens, 1081, 25 
 
 The Suearing-Master, 1681, 26 
 
 The Character of Wits Squint-Ey'd Maid, 1081, 20 
 
 Prologue, The London Cuckolds, 1682, 27 
 
 Eromena, 1683, 28 
 
 The Scoffer Scoffed, 1684, 30 
 
 An Elegy on Charles IL, 1684/5. 31 
 
 The Pleasures of Matrimony, 1688, 33 
 
 The Folhi of Priest-Craft, 1690, 34 
 
 Wit for Money, 1691, 35 
 
 Poeta Infamis, 1692, 37 
 
 Innocui Sales, 1694, 39 
 
 Urania, 1695, 39 
 
 A Collection Of Miscellany Poems, 1699, 46 
 
 Familiar Letters, 1699, 47 
 
 B. C. 
 
 An Elegy on Mr. Angell (1673?), 19 
 
 B. W. 
 
 The Philosophers Banquet, 1633, 1 
 
 Barksted, W. 
 
 Iliren, 1611, 1 
 
 Bold, H. 
 
 Choyce Poems, 1661, 12 
 Poetns Lyrique. i(c., 1004, 14 
 Latine Songs, 1085, 30 
 
 BnowN, T. 
 
 Familiar Letters, 1097, 40 
 
 BOTLUR. S. 
 
 Hudibras, 1078, 21
 
 11 , INDEX 
 
 Cleeve, C. 
 
 Poems, 1685, 31 
 
 CoKAiN, Sir A. 
 
 Small Poems, 1658, 10 
 
 Doni'EY, T. 
 
 The RoyaUst, 1682, 27 
 
 Butler's Ghost, 1682, 28 
 
 A Fool's Preferment, 1688, 32 
 
 CoUin's Walk, 1690, 34 
 
 Bussy D'Avibois, 1691, 35 
 
 The Marriaqe-Hater Match'd, 1692, 36 
 
 The RicJimcmd Heiress, 1693, 37 
 
 The Campaigners, 1698, 43, 44, 45 
 
 F. C. 
 
 Wit at a Venture, 1674, 19 
 
 Fanshawe, Sir E. 
 
 Evelyn's Lucretius, 1656, 7 
 
 FiLMER, E. 
 
 A Defence of Dramatick Poetry, 1698, 41 
 A Farther Defence, 1698, 42 
 
 Flecknoe, E. 
 
 Miscellania, 1653, 8 
 
 The Diarium, 1656, 9 
 
 Sr. W. Davenant's Voyage, 1668, 15 
 
 Fuller, T. 
 
 The Ajypeal of Injured Innocence, 1659, 11 
 
 Hart, J. 
 
 KAINIKH, 1033, 1 
 
 Heylyn, p. 
 
 Examen Historicum, 1659, 11 
 
 Hickeringill, E. 
 
 Scandalum Magnatuni, 1682, 27 
 
 HiGDEN, H. 
 
 A Modern Essay on the 13th Sat. of Juvenal, 1686, 32 
 
 Howard, E. 
 
 Poems And Essays, 1673, 18 
 
 Junius (i.e. Young). 
 
 The Drunkard's Character, 1638, 3 
 
 KlEKMAN, F. 
 
 The English Lovers, 1662, 13 
 
 Lee, N. 
 
 The Princess of Cleve, 1689, 83 
 
 L'ESTRANGE, Sir E. 
 
 The Observator, 1683, 29 
 
 Lovelace, R. 
 
 Lucasta, 1649, 7
 
 INDEX 111 
 
 Oldmixun, J. 
 
 Poems, 16%, 40 
 
 Parker, P. 
 
 Catahijue, 1G78, 21 
 
 Phillips, E. 
 
 The New World of English Words, 1658, 10 
 
 lllCHARDS, N. 
 
 Poems, 1641, 4 
 
 Shadwkll, T. 
 
 The WomanCaptuin, 1680, 25 
 
 St'CKLiNo, Sir J. 
 
 Fragmenta Aurca, 1640, 6 
 Last Remains, 165'J, 6 
 
 Taylor, J. 
 
 'IIII^A^^0PfiMO2, 1648, 6 
 
 TOMKINS, J. 
 
 Dia Poemata, by E. E., 1650, 9 
 
 Ward, E. 
 
 The London Spy, 1699, 47 
 
 The Metamorphosed Beau. 1700, 48 
 
 Whitcombe, K. 
 
 Janua Divorum, 1078, 20 
 
 Whitlock, R. 
 
 Z120T0MIA, 1654, 8 
 
 WiLDOE, N. 
 
 Doctor Cooper at Work, 1661, 12 
 
 Win STAN ley, W. 
 
 Poor Robin, 1078, 22 
 Poor Robin, 1680, 25 
 
 Wrioht, J. 
 
 Country Conversations, 1693, 38
 
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