hungry Stuff, as Buckingham, Sidley, &c. would have Blush'd at. Therefore to perfect this Volume, we have purged it from all Drofs, and to oblige the Town, have Coin'd it at Standard: We have made choice of fuch things as will stand the Teft, and Authority of Wit, and that have more than a bare Inscription to make them pass Current: And certainly no Collection had ever more Advantage than this, especially fince we have reduc'd the Price from 18 Shillings to 6 Befides fupplying it with feveral Celebrated Poems of the best Wits now in Being. In Epitomizing Hiftory,and other Treatifes, the Judicious are often perplex'd, when through the Indifcretion of the Abftracters, they are led into a Labyrinth, where for want of a due Connexion, to render an Intelligible Idea of the Work, they are left to wander through the folitary Pages, without being able to find their way out. Whereas in this Volume, we have made the Way more smooth and delightful to the Reader. Το To conclude, The whole is an impartial Collection of the beft Poems of this laft Age, and to excuse me from faying more, it wants no Wit but its own to recommend it to the World. THE Panegyrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories. Stanza's on the late Ufurper Oliver Cromwell: Writ- ten after his Funeral, by Mr. Dryden. To the Memory of the late Protector Oliver Cromwell. A Pindarique Ode. By Mr. Sprat of Oxon. p. II Upon the late Storm, and Death of the Protector Oliver Cromwel, enfuing the fame. By Mr. Waller. p. 20 Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham. Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham. p. 46 The last Instructions to a Painter, about the Dutch Wars, The Royal Scot. By Cleveland's Ghost, upon the Death ham. Noftradamus's Prophecy. By A. Marvel, Efq. An Historical Poem. By A. Marvel, Esq. On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, presenting the late King and Duke of York each with a Copy Farther Inftructions to a Painter, 1670. By A. Mar- Oceana & Britannia. By A. Marvel, Esq. A Satyr in Anfwer to a Friend, 1682. The Parliament Houfe to be Let, 1678. The Duel of the Crabs: By the Lord Bft. Occafi An |