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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29769	A collection of miscellany poems, letters, &c. by Mr. Brown, &c. ; to which is added, A character of a latitudinarian.	Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1699 (1699)	Wing B5052; ESTC R15161	90,950	262

is your life For alas Tam what is life worth when we have lost the only thing that maketh the trifle dear to us As for me confound my glandula Pintalis if I am not of Will Essence's opinion the greatest Genius that Covent Garden ever produc'd for exquisite dressing who us'd to say for his part he knew not what a mans head was good for but to hang his Hat or his Perriwig on and that if it were put to his choice he wou'd as soon lose that as any other part about him that the chief end of man was to dress well and death itself was not so formidable as a Dishabille But whether does this subject hurry me or how came that sower monosyllable Death in our Pens way Faith Tam I dare trust my thoughts no longer with so melancholy a Theme So hoping you 'll be so kind to yourself as to consider more of this matter I am Votre tres humble Serviture The Shoulder-knot Cabal meets to morrow night near St Iames's to do a singular act of Justice and to think of ways and means how to restore those long neglected Ornaments Your Company is expected there The Contents of the Miscellany Poems THe Contented Whore An Imitation of Ep. 66. in Mar. l. 12. Formosa Phyllis Nocte cum Mihi tota c. page 1 Mart. Ep. 20. l. 1. Si memini fuerant Tibi quatuor Aelia Dentes p. 3. Advice to a Vintn●r M. Ep. 19. l. 1 The hint taken from Quid te Tucca juvat Idem M. Ep. 5. l. 2. Ne valeam si non totis Deciane diebus c. p. 4. M. Ep. 61. l. 11. Sit Phlogij an Chione venere Magis Apta requiris p. 6. Hor. Ode 8. l. 1. Lydia dic per omnes c. p. 8. Hor. Ode 11. l. ● Quid Bellicosus Cantaber c. p. 9. Hor. Ode 27. l. 1. Natis in usum latitiae Scyphis c. p. 12. To Mr Henry Purcel p. 14. An Ode in Hor. paraphrased Audivere Luce c. p. 16. The 10 th Ode in Hor l. 3. paraphras'd Extremum Tanaim si biberes Lyce c. p. 19 The 26 th Ode in Hor. l. 3. Paraphras'd Vixi puellis Nuper Idoneus c. p. 23. The 15 th Ode in Hor. l. 3 imitated Uxor pauperis Ibyci c. p. 25. An Epig. in Mar. imitated Quaeris sollicitus diu regasque Cui tradas Lupe filium Magistro c. p. 27. Upon Tom. Shadwel p. 29. In decretum Par. 89. Non de Adulterandis vinis p. 29. Inscriptions designed for the Dyal in Lincolns Inn Sq. p. 30. An Ep. upon a Beau per idem The Song of Go Perjured Man set by Dr Blow Translated into Latin p. 31. To a Lady that would not grant the last favour under cheaper terms than Matrimony p. 32. On Marriage per idem The Fable of the Bat and the Birds in Imitation of that of the Buzzard in the Hind and Panther in the year 1689. 35 Against the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in 87. p. 36. A Satyr upon a Quack p. 41. An Inscription upon a Tobacco Box. p. 47. An Imitation of it in English p. 48. Upon burning some Anti-monarchial Books in the year 1691. per Idem To Mr D on his ballads p. ●9 To Mr Higden upon the ill success of his Play p. 50. The Extravagant Lover p. 53. A Translation of Teucer Salamina Patremque cum Fugeret c. H O· 7. l. 1. p. 54. O. 9. l. 1. Hor. Imit Vides ut alta stet Nive Candidum c. Written in 85. p. 56. An Imitation of the 6 th O. in H. l. 1. Scriberis vario Fortis c. hostium in the year 85 p. 59. A Prologue spoken at Oxon. p. 61. Epilogue p 63 An Imitation of a Fr. Ode in St Euremont's Works Tom. 2. p. 66. To a Gent. that cut off his Hair and set up for a Spark in his old age p. 67. Part of a 2 d Ode in Hor. l. 4. Translated p. 68 Henrico Higden Arm. cum Infoeliciter Ipsi Comoedia cesserit 1693. p. 69. On the Treatment of the modern Drama p. 70. An Imit of the 4 th Epode in Hor. p. 75. Table to the Miscellaneous Letters A Letter to the Duke of Bucks by Monsieur St Euremont done into English p. 129 To the Dutchess of by the same hand p. 133. To Madam by the same hand p. 139. Letter out of the Reflections of Monsieur Villiers p. 141. A Consolatory Letter to Mr H p. 148. A Letter to W. K. Esq p. 152. Some Remarks on marriage p. 160. Another Letter to Mr H p. 166. Letter to the Reverend Mr in Sussex p. 177. Letter by one of the Commons p. 183 Letter to Madam kept by a Jew in Covent Garden by Capt. Gr p. 188. From a Gent. in Holland to his Friend in England p. 191. To a young Lawyer that dabbled in Poetry p. 196. From a Vintner in the City to a young Vintner in Covent Garden p. 201. To my Lady that married an old dicrepit Widower p. 310. To Mr P p. 316. To Sir Iohn p. 328. The Answer p. 336. To his Mistress that shewed his Letter to hi● Rival By Mr B p. 343 From a Beau disswading his brother Beau to go for Flanders p. 346 FINIS A LETTER FROM A Gentleman in the Country TO HIS Friend in the CITY Leeds Feb. the 2d I Have at last with much Difficulty procured you a Copy of the Character of a Latitudinarian Anatomiz'd which you have so long and with so much Importunity desired of me All I can learn of the Paper is that the Author Calculated it for the Meridian of York as I take it the Magistrate of which place in the Year 44 was a famous Ambidexter and that it will equally serve for any Corporation within his Majesty's Dominions but I will not detain you from it any longer A Latitudinarian is a walking Amsterdam of Religions out of whom all the Ancient and Modern Heresies might be easily retrieved though the Volumes of Epiphanius and Ross were lost He thinks no part of a Church sacred but the Weather-Cock and honours the Memory of him that Invented A Wind-mill because it can Grind indifferently with East West North and South He talks much of Moderation yet is as hot as one of his own Custards and as Choleric as a Hasty-pudding he 's as Positive in his own single Self as an Assembly of splay-mouth'd Divines Geryon and Cerberus were only Types of him but though he has three Heads viz. An Independant ● Presbyterian and a Church of England Head yet he has not Brains to furnish any one of them By his Wisdom and Gravity one would think he had Long Ears but 't is certain he has none for he is Deaf to the Cries of the Poor and though he devours Widows and Orphans at a Morsell yet he has no Bowels His Conscience is as unaccountable as a Modern Hypothesis which spares Cockle-shells in Noah's

may seem to be it is nothing in comparison of what hardships are practis'd in some Countries even after the Nuptial Ceremonies are performed Thus we find in the said Book p. 42. that among the Greeks of the Women find in the Bed the next day any signs of a lost Virginity they make a great Feast but when that is wanting they say nothing the Bridegroom sending back the Bride to her Relations and Friends The same inhuman Custom is likewise observ'd by the Persians as the Reader may see p. 64. by the Moors of the Morocco p. 73. the Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Fez p. 75. by those of Algiers and Tunis p. 79 by the Spaniards who retain this Custom from the Moors p. 22. and ●ately by the Jews in Barbary As for the latter ● don 't wonder at it to find such an usage among ●hem because they were stiff-necked people that was always demanding Signs and Tokens nor among Infidels and Mahometans but that any Christians that are happily freed from the Levitical Bondage should still hanker after the old superstitious Leaven is matter of the greatest astonishment to me I cannot but reflect with horrour how many Ladies in England that now live comfortably with their Husbands and are blessed with a numerous issue had been Shamefully discarded and sent home if ever such an unrighteous Fashion as this had got footing among us It seems to argue a great deal of Cruelty in the Men that they shou'd relish no pleasure but what comes at the expence of their dearest Consorts But it is my daily Prayer that Providence will protect the Freeborn Women of England from such bloody minded Husbands But tho' the greatest part of the World are so extravagantly fond of Virginity yet we find there are some People that have other Notions of things Our said Author p. 88. accquaints us that when one of Conchin Marries whosoever he is he may not lie with his Bride the first Night but is obliged to give her to a Bramino who lies with her and that they believe this to be a favour and a good Omen I hope their Parishes in this Country are not of a large extent otherwise the Priest has more Work upon his Hands than he will go through with unless he keeps a Curate or two to relieve him when Marriages come in thick The holders forth of our Conventicles affect to be thought great pains-takers and really deserve the name for their Bands will testify for them both in the Dog-days and out of the Dog-days that they Sweat exceedingly But Alas what is this if considered in the same Scales with the drudgery that these Priests undergo in their Ministry I have often wonder'd that the Popish Clergy that stand up so stiffly for the divine Right of First-fruits don't Troop in shoals to this Kingdom when they Voluntarily pay such an extraordinary Tribute to the Church 'T is observable that in most Countries of the World this Ceremony is perform'd by the Priesthood who if they equally pretended to the power of Loosing as they do to that of Tying they would have more Business upon their hands than they cou'd well dispense with Only in Turkey married People are joined together by the Cadey or Civil Magistrate and here in England in Oliver's time by a Justice of Peace the Reason alledg'd for it then was that none was so well qualified to Marry others as he who by his Office was Impower'd to lay People by the heels and put them into the Stocks As I have already taken Notice Virginity is reckon'd so Essential to Marriage in several Countries that the poor Bride is Inhumanly dismiss'd and sent home to her Relations if she be found defective in that particular but in this Author we shall find that all the world is not of this humour in Pegu of the Marriage Ceremonies p. 9● the King and those of the greatest Quality lye not the first night with their Wives but admit others and pay them bountifully that will give themselves the trouble With all due respect to our Women be it spoken I humbly conceive that one half at least of the married Men in this Kingdom if they would speak their minds freely must do their Wives this Justice as to own that they sav'd them this Porters drudgery as a Monarch not inferiour to Solomon for Wisdom rightly call'd it Our Neighbours of Scotland before they came to be civiliz'd used to lie the first night with the Bride their Vassal but now they have flung up such a troublesom piece of State and make their Tenants drudge for themselves We rail at the Church of Rome and not without reason for exacting implicite Obedience from her Sons but alas what signifies it to take a few Articles upon the Credit of the Priest but to take a Wife as our Author tells us they do in Muscovy and other places without seeing her once or knowing what Defects she may have is somewhat hard upon the Subject Heaven be prais'd that here in England we are not forced to buy a Pig in a Poke nay there are some married Men in the World that were as intimately acquainted with their Wives before Marriage as ever they were after See now what it is to live under a free Government and to have Magna Charta on one's side To conclude these Reflections it is my hearty advice That all unmarried Persons wou'd chuse themselves proper Spouses by the first opportunity in order to recruit those numbers that have been destroy'd in the wars and not suffer their Talents to lie buried in a Napkin for which they must severely Answer one Day And as for those that are Married the best way they can take as I presume is to live as easy as they can and following the good counsel of Hobson the Carrier so to manage themselves as not to tire before their Journeys end LETTER VI. Another Letter to Mr. H SIR I Find by your answer that my advice had not that good effect upon you which I expected You still complain of your unhappiness and disturb your self and your friends with Chimera's of your own creating If I thought complaining wou'd make you a farthing the better I wou'd out-weep a Church-Spout and out-lament a Widow that has bury'd three Husbands and now laments for a fourth or if I thought you wanted any Spiritual Cordials I wou'd send you a Cart-load of Sermons to teach you that patience which the preachers of them cou'd never practise But you are a Malade imaginaire and Moliere wou'd sooner bring you to your self than a Divine In short think no more of the Viper that stung you and you are well You talk much of what people do in Spain upon these occasions But what have you and I to do with them Are we to regulate our eating by the sots of Lapland or to go naked in complaisance to the Salvages under the Line Had you liv'd in Spain perhaps I had preach'd revenge to you