The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton

FmE 3/12

• RoJ 135 pp. 218-26

  Copy, headed A Letter from Artemiza.

  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
• RoJ 286 pp. 227-34

  Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
• RoJ 472 pp. 235-41

  Copy, headed Satyr.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
• RoJ 46 pp. 241-3

  Copy, headed The Maim'd Drunkard and here beginning As some old Admiral in former war.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
• RoJ 511 p. 243

  Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
• RoJ 105 pp. 244-6

  Copy, headed The Disappointment and here beginning Naked she clasp'd me in her longing arms.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')
• RoJ 554 p. 247

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
• DoC 72.5 p. 248

  Copy.

  First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
• RoJ 74 pp. 251-4

  Copy, headed From E.R. to E.M..

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
• RoJ 274 pp. 255-60

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
• RoJ 545 p. 262

  Copy, headed Nestor.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')
• RoJ 605 pp. 286-7

  Copy, here beginning Madam / If you're deceiv'd 'tis not by my heart.

  First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
• RoJ 207 pp. 288-9

  Copy, headed Poet Ninny.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
• RoJ 191 pp. 289-90

  Copy.

  First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
• RoJ 187 p. 291

  Copy, headed Answer and here beginning I F—k no more than others do.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe.

  Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')
• RoJ 12 pp. 292-6

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
• RoJ 241 pp. 300-1

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
• RoJ 202 p. 302

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')
• RoJ 564 pp. 303-4

  Copy, headed Nothing and here beginning Nothing thou Elder Brother unto Shade.

  First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
• RoJ 483 pp. 305-7

  Copy, headed Ovid...To Love and here beginning Oh Love hou cold art thou to take my part.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
• RoJ 438 p. 307

  Copy, headed To Corinna.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
• RoJ 621 p. 308

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
• RoJ 461 p. 309

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')
• RoJ 384 p. 310

  Copy, headed Thirsis.

  First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

  Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
• RoJ 377 pp. 311-12

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
• RoJ 413 p. 313

  Copy, headed To Phillis.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
• RoJ 168 p. 314

  Copy.

  First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
• RoJ 448 pp. 314-5

  Copy.

  First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
• RoJ 91 p. 315

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
• RoJ 407 p. 316

  Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
• SeC 99 pp. 317-18

  Copy.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')
• DrJ 43.7 p. 348

  Copy.

  A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

  First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

  The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')