The Works of Aphra Behn, ed. by Montague Summers

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Author

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689

Title

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume VI

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Produced by Richard Tonsing, Wendy Bertsch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

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eBook-No.

45777

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Release Date

May 27, 2014

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WORKS OF APHRA BEHN
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.THE LOVER'S WATCH. — INTRODUCTION. — To Peter Weston, Esq.; Of The Honourable Society Of The Inner-Temple. — To the Admir'd ASTREA. — To the Incomparable Author. — To the most ingenious ASTREA, upon her Book intituled , La Môntre, or the Lover's Watch. — To the Divine ASTREA, on her Môntre. — To his admired Friend, the most ingenious Author. — La Monstre. The Lover's WATCH: or, the ART of making LOVE. — The ARGUMENT. — IRIS to DAMON . — EIGHT o'CLOCK. — NINE o'CLOCK. — TEN o'CLOCK. — ELEVEN o'CLOCK. — TWELVE o'CLOCK. — ONE o'CLOCK. — TWO o'CLOCK. — THREE o'CLOCK. — FOUR o'CLOCK. — FIVE o'CLOCK. — SIX o'CLOCK. — SEVEN o'CLOCK. — EIGHT o'CLOCK. — NINE o'CLOCK. — TEN o'CLOCK. — ELEVEN o'CLOCK. — TWELVE o'CLOCK. — ONE o'CLOCK. — TWO o'CLOCK. — THREE o'CLOCK. — FOUR o'CLOCK. — FIVE o'CLOCK. — SIX o'CLOCK. — SEVEN o'CLOCK. — The CASE for the WATCH. — DAMON to IRIS. — The FIGURE of the CASE. — The First CYPHER. — The Second CYPHER, — The Third CYPHER. — The Fourth CYPHER. — The CLASP of the WATCH. — The LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, to Dress her self by: or, The Art of Charming. — Sent from DAMON to IRIS. — IRIS's LOOKING-GLASS . — The SHAPE of IRIS. — IRIS 's COMPLEXION . — IRIS 's HAIR . — IRIS' s EYES. — The MOUTH of IRIS. — The NECK of IRIS. — The ARMS and HANDS of IRIS. — The GRACE and AIR of IRIS. — The DISCRETION of IRIS. — The GOODNESS and COMPLAISANCE of IRIS. — The WIT of IRIS. — The MODESTY of IRIS.
4. 4.POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS: WITH A VOYAGE TO THE ISLAND OF LOVE. — To the Right Honourable, JAMES, Earl of Salisbury , Viscount Cramborn , and Baron of Islington . — To Mrs. BEHN, on the publishing her Poems. — To ASTRÆA, on her Poems . — To the excellent Madam Behn, on her Poems . — To the Authour, on her Voyage to the Island of Love. — To the Lovely Witty ASTRÆA , on her Excellent Poems. — Upon these and other Excellent Works of the Incomparable ASTRÆA. — To the excellent ASTRÆA. — To Madam A. Behn on the publication of her Poems. — To Madam Behn, on her Poems. — POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. — The Golden Age. — A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland. — On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks. — On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter. — A Ballad on Mr. J. H. to Amoret, asking why I was so sad. — Our Cabal. — Mr. V. U. — Mr. G. V. — My dear Brother J. C. — My dear Amoret, Mrs. B. — Mr. J. B. — Mr. Je. B. — Mr. N. R. V. — Mr. E. B. and Mrs. F. M. — Mr. J. H. — Mr. Ed. Bed. — SONG. The Willing Mistriss. — SONG. Love Arm'd. — SONG. The Complaint. — SONG. The Invitation. — SONG. — To Mr. Creech ( under the Name of Daphnis) on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius. — To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses (Writ in Praise of some I had made on the Earl of Rochester) Written in a Fit of Sickness. — The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse; To a New Tune. — The Return. — On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, and sent to me in a Morning before I was Awake. — To my Lady Morland at Tunbridge. — Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas. — Song in the same Play, by the Wavering Nymph. — The Disappointment. — On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot, given me by Sir R. O. — The Dream. A Song. — A letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation. — The Reflection : A Song. — SONG. To Pesibles Tune. — SONG. On her Loving Two Equally. Set by Captain Pack. — The Counsel. A Song. Set by Captain Pack. — SONG. The Surprize. Set by Mr. Farmer. — SONG. — The Invitation : A Song. — Silvio's Complaint : A Song. — In Imitation of Horace. — To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire. — A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court, between Damon and Sylvia. — On Mr. J. H. In a Fit of Sickness. — To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart then 'twas worth. — To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy called The New Utopia. — To Lysander at the Musick-Meeting. — An Ode to Love. — Love Reveng'd , A Song. — SONG. To a New Scotch Tune. — The Cabal at Nickey Nackeys. — A Paraphrase on the Eleventh Ode Out of the first Book of Horace. — A Translation. — A Paraphrase on OVID'S Epistle of ŒNONE to PARIS. — THE ARGUMENT.
5. 5.A Voyage to the Isle of Love. — INTRODUCTION. — A VOYAGE to the ISLE OF LOVE. — An Account from Lisander to Lysidas his Friend. — The Truce. — LOVE's Power. — The CHARACTER. — RESPECT. — INQUIETUDE. — The REFLECTION. — Little CARES, or Little Arts to please . — The DREAM. — HOPE. — The River of PRETENSION. — The Princess HOPE. — LOVE's Resentment. — The City of DISCRETION. — The silent Confession. — The Den of Cruelty. — The River of Despair. — The RESOLVE. — The QUESTION. — The TRANSPORT. — CONFIDENCE. — The REFLECTION. — ABSENCE. — To LOVE. — RIVALS. — JEALOUSIE. — The COMPLAINT. — The PENITENT. — The City of LOVE. — LOVE's Temple. — HONOUR. — The LOSS. — The Prospect and Bower of Bliss. — A TABLE.
6. 6.LYCIDUS: OR, THE LOVER IN FASHION, &c. — To the EARL OF MELFORD, &c., Knight of the most Noble Order of the Thistle. — To Mrs. B. on her Poems . — LYCIDUS: or, the Lover in Fashion, &c.
7. 7.A MISCELLANY OF POEMS. — On the Honourable Sir Francis Fane, on his Play call'd the Sacrifice, by Mrs. A. B. — To Damon. — To inquire of him if he cou'd tell me by the Style, who writ me a Copy of Verses that came to me in an unknown Hand, by Mrs. A. B. — To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition . ODE. by Mrs. B. — To Alexis, On his saying, I lov'd a Man that talk'd much, by Mrs. B. — A PASTORAL PINDARICK. — On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorset and Middlesex, to the Lady Mary Compton. A Dialogue. Between Damon and Aminta. By Mrs. Behn. — On Desire. A Pindarick. By Mrs. B. — To Amintas. Upon reading the Lives of some of the Romans. — On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas. By Mrs. B. — To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman. By Mrs. B.
8. 8.WESTMINSTER DROLLERY, 1671. — A SONG.
9. 9.Miscellany, 1685. — To SIR WILLIAM CLIFTON. — On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester, — SONG. By A. B. — A SONG. By Mrs. A. B. — A PARAPHRASE on the LORDS PRAYER. By Mrs. A. B. — SELINDA and CLORIS, made in an Entertainment at Court. By Mrs. A. B. — A PINDARIC to Mr. P. who sings finely . By Mrs. A. B. — On the Author of that Excellent Book Intituled The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness. By Mrs. A. B. — Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the last of Seven that died before. By Mrs. A. B. — Epilogue to the Jealous Lovers. — A PASTORAL to Mr. Stafford, Under the Name of SILVIO on his Translation of the Death of Camilla: out of VIRGIL. By Mrs. Behn. — THIRSIS and AMARILLIS.
10. 10.GILDON'S MISCELLANY, 1692. — VENUS and CUPID. — Verses design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent herself to cure her Love. Left unfinish'd. — Verses by Madam Behn, never before printed . On a Conventicle .
11. 11.GILDON'S CHORUS POETARUM, 1694.
12. 12.MUSES MERCURY, June, 1707 . — The Complaint of the poor Cavaliers. — On a Pin that hurt Amintas' Eye . — To Mrs. Harsenet, on the Report of a Beauty, which she went to see at Church. — For Damon, being ask'd a Reason for his Love .
13. 13.FAMILIAR LETTERS, 1718. — A Letter to the Earl of Kildare, dissuading him from marrying Moll Howard. — To Mrs. Price. — P. S. A SONG.
14. 14.PROLOGUE to ROMULUS,
15. 15.EPILOGUE to the Same .
16. 16.Mrs. Behn's Satyr on Dryden.
17. 17.VALENTINIAN.
18. 18.To Henry Higden, Esq.; on his Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal.
19. 19.On the Death of E. Waller, Esq. ;
20. 20.A PINDARIC POEM to the Reverend Doctor Burnet, on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my MUSE.
21. 21.NOTES. — La Monstre (1686). — Poems Upon Several Occasions (1684). — LYCIDUS (1688). — Notes: Critical and Explanatory. — La Monstre. — Poems Upon Several Occasions (1684). — Lycidus (1688). — Miscellany, 1685.
22. 22.Index of First Lines.
23. 23.GENERAL INDEX.

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