Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second. Written by the greatest wits of the age. Viz. Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Lord Bu-------st, Sir John Denham, Andrew Marvell, Esq; Mr. Milton, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Sprat, Mr. Waller. Mr. Ayloffe, &c. With some miscellany poems by the same: most whereof never before printed. Now carefully examined with the originals, and published without any castration.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687.
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Upon his House.
HEre lies the sacred Bones,
Of Paul beguiled of his Stones:
Here lie Golden Briberies,
The price of ruin'd Families:
The Cavaliers Debenter Wall,
Fix'd on an Eccentrick Basis;
Here's Dunkirk-Town and Tangier-Hall,
The Queen's Marriage and all;
The Dutch-man's Templum Pacis.
