ON THE EAST END.

EDMUNDUS WALLER CUI HOC MARMOR SACRUM EST, COLESHILL NASCENDI

LOCUM HABUIT; CANTABRIGIAM STUDENDI; PATREM ROBERTUM ET

EX HAMPDENA STIRPE MATREM: COEPIT VIVERE III° MARTII, A. D. MDCV. PRIMA UXOR ANNA EDWARDI BANKS FILIA UNICA HÆRES. EX PRIMA BIS

PATER FACTUS; EX SECUNDA
TREDECIES; CUI ET DUO LUSTRA
SUPERSTES, OBIIT XXI OCTOB.
A. D. MDCLXXXVII.

ON THE NORTH SIDE.

HOC MARMORE EDMUNDO WALLER MARIÆQUE EX SECUNDIS NUPTIIS CONJUGI, PIENTISSIMIS PARENTIBUS, PIISSIME PARENTAVIT EDMUNDUS FILIUS HONORES BENE-MERENTIBUS EXTREMOS DEDIT QUOS IPSE FUGIT. EL. W. I. F. H. G. EX TESTAMENTO H. M. P. IN JUL. MDCC. R 4

CON

CONTENTS.

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Preface to the first Edition of Mr. Waller's

Poems, after the Restoration; printed in the Year

1664

Preface to the fecond Part of Mr. Waller's Poems;

Printed in the Year 1690

3

Of the Danger his Majefty (being Prince) escaped in

the Road at Saint Andero

15

Of his Majesty's receiving the News of the Duke of

Buckingham's Death

To the King on his Navy

On the taking of Salle

Upon his Majesty's repairing of St. Paul's

21

22

24.

25

28

30

To the Queen, occafioned upon fight of her Majesty's

Picture

Of the Queen

The Apology of Sleep, for not approaching the Lady

who can do any thing but sleep when she pleaseth 32

Puerperium

34.

To the Queen-Mother of France, upon her landing 35

The Country to my Lady of Carlisle

The Countess of Carlisle in mourning

36

37

In answer to one who writ a Libel against the Countess

of Carlisle

39

Of

Of her Chamber

To Phyllis

Page 40

41

To my Lord of Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady

42

To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sicknefs and Re

covery

Song.

"Stay, Phoebus, stay!"

On my Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture
To Van Dyck

At Pens-Hurft

To my Lord of Leicester

Of the Lady who can fleep when the pleases
Of the Mif-report of her being painted
Of her paffing through a Crowd of People
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne applied
Fabula Phœbi et Daphnes

Song. "Say, lovely Dream! &c."

To Mrs. Braughton, Servant to Sacharifla
At Pens-Hurft

To my young Lady Lucy Sidney

To Amoret

The Battle of the Summer-Iflands, in three Cantos 68

For drinking of Healths

Song. "Chloris, farewel! &c."

Of

my Lady Isabella playing on the Lute

To a Lady finging a Song of his compofing
Of Mrs. Arden

Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs

Love's Farewell

From a Child

On a Girdle

Page 81

82

83

84

ibid.

85

86

ibid.

87

ibid.

90

91

92,

ibid.

93

94

95

96

ibid.

97

ibid.

99

To the mutable Fair

Song. "'Tis not your Beauty can engage"

The Fall

Of Sylvia

The Bud

Song. "Behold the brand of Beauty toft!"
On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting

To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen
To Chloris

Song. "While I listen to thy Voice"

Of loving at first Sight

The Self-banish'd

Song. "Go, lovely Rofe!"

Thyrfis, Galatea

On the Head of a Stag

To a Lady in Retirement

100

102

The Mifer's Speech; in a Masque

Upon Ben Jonson

On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays.

103

104

ibid.

106

To Mr. George Sandys, on his Tranflation of fome

Parts of the Bible

107

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