Keith walker, nicholas fisher john wilmot, earl of rochester the poems and lucinas rape 2010

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER THE POEMS AND LUCINA’S RAPE Books of related interest John Milton Complete Shorter Poems edited by Stella P Revard John Milton, Paradise Lost edited by Barbara K Lewalski JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER THE POEMS AND LUCINA’S RAPE EDITED BY KEITH WALKER and NICHOLAS FISHER A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2010 © 2010 Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007 Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell The right of Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners The publisher is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester : the poems, and Lucina’s rape / edited by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-4051-8779-4 (alk paper) I Walker, Keith, 1936–2004 II Fisher, Nicholas III Title PR3669.R2A6 2010 821'.4–dc22 2009032171 Hbk: 9781405187794 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Set in 11/13.5pt Dante by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed in Malaysia 2010 IN MEMORY OF KEITH WALKER & HAROLD LOVE (1936–2004) (1937–2007) Figure Engraved portrait of Rochester, 1681 (collection of Howard Erskine-Hill) Contents List of Illustrations Note on This Edition Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Further Reading Abbreviations viii ix x xii xvii xxviii xxxii POEMS Juvenilia Love Poems Translations Prologues and Epilogues Satires and Lampoons Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 56 61 68 111 131 138 LUCINA’S RAPE OR THE TRAGEDY OF VALLENTINIAN 161 Index of Proper Names 253 Index of Titles and First Lines 257 List of Illustrations Engraved portrait of Rochester, 1681 (collection of Howard Erskine-Hill) vi Title-page of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, The E of R— (Antwerp [London], 1680) ( Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge) xxxiv ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’, Nottingham University MS Portland Pw V 31 22 Title-page A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679] ( private collection) 89 Upon Nothing, National Archives, Kew, Box C 104/110 Part 105 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, British Library Add MS 28692 (title-page) 161 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, British Library Add MS 28692 (correction to I.i.166) 173 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, British Library Add MS 28692 (correction to V.iv.37) 238 246 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian To Paine, and Labours, Famine, Slaughter, Fire And all the dreadfull toyles of Horrid Warre Am I thus lowly layd before your feet— For what mean Wretch who has his duty done Would care to live when you declare him worthless? If I must fall, which your severe disfavour Hath made the easier and the Nobler Choyce, Yield mee not up a Wretched Sacrifice To the poore spleen of a base favourite Let not vile instruments destroy the man Whom once you Lov’d; but let your hand bestow That wellcome death your Anger has decreed Layes his sword at his feet Emp: Goe seek the common Executioner Old man through vanity and yeares grown madd, Or to reprieve thee from the hangmans stroake Goe use thy Millitary Interest To begg a milder Death among the guards And tempt my kindled wrath noe more with folly Eci: Ill Counsell’d, thankless Prince, you did indeed Bestow that office on a Souldier But in the Army Could you hope to finde With all your Bribes a murderer of Ỉcius Whom they soe long have follow’d, known, and own’d Their God in Warre and thy good Genius ever? Speechless and Cold without, upon the ground The Souldier lyes, whose Generous death will teach Posterity true Gratitude and Honour And presse as heavily upon the Soule, Lost Vallentinian, as thy Barbarous Rape For which since Heaven alone must punish thee Ile doe Heav’ns Justice on thy base assister Runnes at Lycias Lyc: Save mee my Lord! Emp: Hold honest Æcius hold I was too Rash—Oh spare the Gentle Boy! And I’le forgive thee all! Lyci: Furies and Death! Dyes Emp: Hee bleeds! mourn yee Inhabitants of Heav’n For sure my lovely Boy was one of you, But hee’s dead and now yee may rejoyce, For yee have stoln him from mee, spitefull Pow’rs Empire and Life I ever have despis’d, 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian The vanity of Pride, of hope and feare; In Love alone my Soule found Reall joyes And still yee Tyrannize and cross my Love— Oh that I had a sword! To drive this Raving foole headlong to hell! And pacify the Ghost of my deare Boy! [Ỉcius] Throws him a Sword—Fights Ỉci: Take your desire and try if Lawless Lust Can stand against Truth, honesty, and Justice They fight Ỉcius runnes himselfe on the Emperours sword and falls— I have my wish—Gods give mee true repentance And blesse you still—beware of Maximus Dyes Emp: Farewell dull honesty which though despis’d Canst make thy owner runne on certaine Ruine Old Ỉcius where is now thy name in Warre, Thy Interest with soe many conquer’d Nations, The Souldiers Reverence and the Peoples Love? Thy mighty Fame and Popularity With which thou kept’st mee still in certaine feare Depending on thee for uncertaine safety? Ah what a Lamentable Wretch is hee Who urg’d by feare or sloth yields up his pow’r To hope protection from his favourite Wallowing in Ease, and Vice, feels noe contempt But weares the empty name of Prince with scorne And lives a poore Led Pageant to his Slave? Such have I been to thee honest Ỉcius! Thy Power kept mee in aw, thy Pride in Paine— Till now I liv’d, but since thou’rt dead I’le Reigne Enter Phid with Maximus Phi: Behold my Lord the cruell Emperour By whose Tyrannick doome the Noble Ỉcius Was Judg’d to dye Emp: Hee was soe, sawcy Slave, 247 65 70 75 80 85 90 71 Stage instruction] In MS it follows two lines later 82–90 ‘It would have been impossible in the mid-1670s not to recognize these lines as a critique of Charles’s dependence on his then chief minister, Thomas Osborne, first earl of Danby This had led the king to support a policy, in which he did not himself believe, of enforced conformity to the Church of England Rochester writes as a supporter of Buckingham’s campaign to secure greater accommodation within the Church for Dissenters’ (Love, pp 471–2) 248 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian Struck by this hand; here groveling at my feet The Traytor lyes; as thou shalt doe bold Villaine— Go to the Furies, carry my defiance Kills him And tell em Cesar feares nor Earth nor Hell Phi: Stay Ecius, and I’le waite thy mightier Ghost Oh Maximus, through the Long Vault of death I heare thy wife cry out revenge mee! Revenge mee on the Ravisher! no more; Aretus comes to aide thee, Oh! farewell! Dyes Emp: Ha! what not speake yet! thou whose wrongs are greatest! Or doe the horrors that wee have been doing Amaze thy feeble Soule? if thou art a Roman, Answer the Emperour; Cesar bids thee speake! Max: A Roman! Ha! and Cesar bids thee speake! Pronounce thy wrongs and tell em ore in groans, But Oh! the story is ineffable! Cesars commands, back’d with the eloquence Of all the inspiring Gods cannot declare it Oh Emperour, thou Picture of a Glory, Thou mangled Figure of a Ruin’d greatness! Speake sayst thou? speake the wrongs of Maximus? Yes I will speake, imperiall murderer Ravisher, Oh! thou Royall Villany In purple dip’d to give a gloss to mischiefe: Yet ere thy death inriches my revenge And swells the Booke of Fate thou Statelier mad man Plac’d by the Gods upon a precipice To make thy fall more dreadfull, why hast thou slain Thy Friend, thy onely stay for sinking greatness? What Frenzie, what blinde Fury did posses thee To cut of thy right hand and fling it from thee, For such was Ỉcius? Emp: Yes and such art thou, Joynt Traytors to my Empire and my Glory Put up thy sword, begone, for ever leave mee Tho Traytor yet because I once did wrong thee Live like a Vagrant Slave! I banish thee Max: Hold mee you Gods, and Judge our Passions rightly Lest I should kill him, kill this Luxurious worm! Ere yet a thought of danger has awak’d him 108 ore] or 95 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian End him ev’n in the midst of night debauches Mounted upon a Tripos drinking healths With shallow Rascalls, Pimps, Buffoons, and Bawds, Who with vile laughter take him in their Armes And beare the drunken Cesar to his Bed, Where to the scandall of all Majesty Att every grasp hee belches Provinces, Kisses of Fame, and at the Empires ruine Enjoyes his costly Whore Emp: Peace, Traytor or thou dy’st Tho pale Lucina should direct thy sword I would assault thee if thou offer more Max: More! by the immortall Gods I will awake thee, I’le rouze thee, Cesar, if strong Reason can If thou hadst ever sense of Roman honour, Or the imperiall Genius ever warm’d thee Why hast thou us’d mee thus for all my Service My Toyles, my Fights, my Wounds in horrid Warre? Why didst thou teare the only garland from mee That could make proud my conquests? Oh: yee Gods! If there bee noe such thing as right or wrong But force alone must Swallow all possession Then to what purpose for soe long descents Were Roman Laws observ’d or Heav’n obey’d? If that the great for ease and vice were form’d Why did our first Kings toil? why was the Plough Advanc’d to bee the Pillar of the State? Why was the Lustfull Tarquin with his house Expell’d; but for the Rape of Bleeding Lucrece? Emp: I cannot beare thy words vex’d Wretch, noe more Hee shocks mee, prithee Maximus noe more: Reason no more, thou troublest mee with Reason Max: What servile Rascall, what most abject Slave That lick’d the dust where ere his Master trod, Bounded not from the Earth upon his feet And shooke his chaine, that heard of Brutus vengeance? Who that ere heard the cause, applauded not That Roman Spirit, for his great revenge? Yet mine is more and touches mee far nearer, Lucrece was not his Wife, as she wart mine 162 Hee] Emp: Hee 171 she] thou 249 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 170 250 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian For ever ravished ever lost Lucina Emp: Ah name her not, That name, thy face, and Reason are the three things on Earth I woud avoid Let mee forget her, I’le forgive thee all 175 And give thee halfe the Empire to begone Max: Thus steel’d with such a cause, what Soule but mine Had not upon the instant ended thee, Sworne on that moment Cesar is noe more? And soe I had but I will tell thee Tyrant 180 To make thee hate thy guilt and curse thy feares Ỉcius, whom thou hast slaine, prevented mee; Ỉcius who on this bloody spot lyes murder’d By barbarous Cesar watch’t my vow’d revenge And from my Sword preserv’d ungratefull Cesar 185 Emp: How then dar’st thou viewing this great Example With impious armes assault thy Emperour? Max: Because I have more Witt than honesty, More of thy selfe, more Villany than Vertue, More Passion, more revenge, and more Ambition 190 Than foolish honour and Fantastick Glory What? Share your Empire, suffer you to Live After the impious wrongs I have receiv’d? Coulds’t thou thus Lull mee thou might’st laugh indeed Emp: I am satisfy’d that thou did’st ever hate mee; 195 Thy wife’s Rape therefore was an effect of Justice, And soe far thou hast eas’d my tender Conscience Therefore to hope a friendship from thee now Were vaine to mee as is the worlds contrivance° how something has been contrived, Where Solid paines succeed our sensless joyes [ fallen out 200 And short liv’d pleasures fleet like passing dreames Ỉcius I mourn thy fate as much as man Can doe in my condition, that am going And therefore shou’d bee busy with my selfe, Yet to thy memory I will allow 205 Some grains of time and drop some sorrowing teares Oh! Ỉcius, Oh! Max: Why this is right my Lord And if these drops are Orient you will sett True Cesar, glorious in your going downe Tho all the journey of your life was cloudy 210 Allow at least a possibility Where thought is lost and thinke there may bee Gods, Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian An unknown Country, after you are dead As well as there was one ere you were borne Emp: I’ve thought enough, and with that thought resolv’d To mount imperiall from the burning Pile I grieve for Ỉcius, yes I mourn him Gods As if I’d met my Father in the dark And striving for the way had murder’d him Oh such a faithfull friend! that when hee knew I hated him and had contriv’d his death, Yet then hee ran his heart upon my sword And gave a fatall proofe of dying Love Max: Tis now fit time, I’ve wrought you to my purpose Else at my entrance with a Brutall blow I’de fell’d you like a victim for the Altar, Not warn’d you thus and Arm’d you for your hour, As if when ere fate call’d a Cesar home The Judging Gods look’d downe to mark his dying Emp: Oh subtill Traytor! how he dallyes with me Thinke not thou Sawcy Counsellor, my Slave, Tho at this moment I shou’d feel thy foot Upon my neck and Sword within my Bowells, That I would ask a Life from thee, no Villaine, When once the Emperour is at thy command Pow’r, Life, and Glory must take leave forever, Therefore prepare the utmost of thy Mallice But to torment thee more and shew how little All thy revenge can doe appeares to Cesar, Would the Gods raise Lucina from the grave And fetter thee but while I might enjoy her, Before thy face I’de ravish her againe Max: Hark, hark, Aretus and the Legions come Emp: Come all Aretus and the Rebell Legions Let Ỉcius too start from the Goal of death And run the flying Race of Life againe, I’ll bee the foremost still and snatch fresh Glory To my last gasp, from the contending World Garlands and Crownes too shall attend my dying, Statues and Temples, Altars shall be rais’d To my great Name; while your more vile inscriptions Time rots and mould’ring Clay is all your portion 218–19 cf Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, ll 800–13 250 Temples,] Temples 251 215 220 225 230 235 240 245 250 252 Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian Enter Aretus and Souldiers They kill the Emperour Max: Lead me to Death or Empire which you please For both are equall to a Ruin’d man: But fellow Souldiers if you are my Friends Bring mee to death that I may there find peace Since Empire is too poor to make amends For halfe the losses I have undergone— A true friend and a tender faithfull Wife, The two blest miracles of humane Life Goe now and seek new worlds to add to this, Search heaven for blessings to enrich the gift, Bring power and pleasure on the wings of Fame And heap this treasure upon Maximus, You’l make a great man not a happy one Sorrows soe just as mine must never end For my Love ravish’d and my murder’d Friend Finis 255 260 265 Index of Proper Names Abdy, Sir John 124 Adlard, John 104 Aretino, Pietro 81 Arlington, Henry Bennett, Earl of 150 Arne, Thomas 47 Augustine, St 28, 107 Baines, Paul 109 Barry, Elizabeth xviii, 98 Beaumont, Francis 100, 117, 118, 125 Behn, Aphra xx, 8, 46–47 Blount, Charles 57, 154 Blow, John 99 Blundevile, John 99 Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas 97, 151 Bold, Henry 47 Bovey, Sir Ralph 70 Brooks, Harold 156 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of 102, 111, 140, 163, 247n Burnet, Gilbert xvii, xviii, xix Burrows, John xxv, 144, 150, 157 Busby, Richard 99 Butler, Samuel xix, 11, 50, 71, 102, 139 Cameron, W J xxiiin Carver, Larry 162n, 163n, 165 Catalina, Lucius Sergius 158 Catherine of Braganza 133 Chantler, Ashley 69, 142 Charles II xviii, xix, 109, 111, 118, 135, 150, 159, 162–4, 166, 247n Chernaik, Warren 80, 165n Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of 87, 88 Churchill, John 78 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of 133 Cleveland, Barbara Palmer née Villiers, Duchess of 77, 78, 101, 150 Colie, Rosalie 109 Consort of Musicke 45 Cowley, Abraham 16, 99, 106, 107, 166, 199n Crowne, John xviii, 93, 98, 155–6, 167, 200n D’Avenant, Charles 67, 94 Danby, Thomas Osborne, Earl of 158, 247n Defoe, Daniel 41 Dennis, John 99 Devine, Steven 99 Donne, John xx, 5, 43 Dorrell, Sir Francis 140 Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of 100, 101, 111, 152, 163 Downs, Billy xix, 106, 118, 123 Dryden, John xviii, xx, xxi, xxvi, 8, 37, 71, 72, 74, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 111, 114, 115, 119, 151, 156, 163 Duffet, Thomas 153 254 Index of Proper Names Eaton, Sir John 18 Ellis, Frank H xxv, 7, 9, 51, 76, 200n, 226n Etherege, Sir George 8, 43, 98, 113, 129, 139, 155 Evelyn, John xx, 92, 143 Everett, Barbara 68 Fane, Sir Francis xviii, 67 Fanshawe, Will 148 Farley-Hills, David xxn, 51, 119 Felton, Thomas 135 Fisher, Nicholas xxn, xxin, xxviin, 76, 88, 99 Flatman, Thomas 99 Fletcher, John 62, 100, 118, 125, 162–7 Florio, John 96 Frazier, Carey 128, 133 Frazier, Sir Alexander 132 Giordani, Tommaso 47 Godolphin, Sidney 102 Gosnell, Winifred 125 Grabu, Louis 45 Gramont, Philibert, Comte de 103 Greer, Germaine 110 Griffin, Dustin 71, 97, 107, 115, 153 Gwyn, Nell 87 Haines, Joseph 64 Haley, K H D 87 Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of 111, 119, 163 Hammond, Paul xxiv, 9, 34, 37, 43, 51, 52, 57, 71, 98, 151, 152, 154 Harbin, George 30 Harris, Henry 154 Haward, Sir William xxiv, 76, 145 Hayman, John 95 Head, Richard 10 Henrietta Maria, Queen Herbert, George 36 Herodotus 68 Hobbes, Thomas 28, 73, 97, 140 Hook, Lucyle 162n Hooke, Robert 117 Hopkins, Paul 67 Horace xix, 5, 80, 102, 151 Howard, Edward 120, 129 Howard, Lady Elizabeth 135, 146 Howard, Sir Robert xviii, 71 Hume, Robert D 132 Hyde, Edward See Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of Ingelo, Nathaniel 92 Jenkinson, Matt 90 Jermyn, Henry See St Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of Johnson, Samuel 109 Jonson, Ben 34, 54, 73, 100 Kérouaille, Louise de, Duchess of Portsmouth 33, 86, 103, 148 Killigrew, Thomas 118, 149 King, Henry 34 Knight, Mary 77, 103, 148 Lauderdale, James Maitland, Duke of 132 Lawes, Henry and William 45 Lee, Nathaniel xviii, 57, 99 L’Estrange, Sir Roger 90 Lessey, Thomas xx Long, Jane 103 Lord, George deForest 114 Louis XIV, King of France 86, 136, 158 Love, Harold xviiin, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, 1, 5, 18, 28, 30, 33, 34, 43, 45, 46–7, 51, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 83, 87, 106, 107, 109, 110, 113, 114, 117, 119, 126, 129, 134, 135, 138, 139, 140, 144, 146, 148, 150, 153, 154, 158, 163n, 164, 192n, 200n, 228n, 237n, 247n Lovelace, Richard 24 Lucretius 92 Luttrell, Narcissus 114 Lyons, Paddy xxvi Malet, Elizabeth See Rochester, Elizabeth Malet, Countess of Index of Proper Names Malherbe, Francois de 159 Martial Marvell, Andrew xx, 140–1, 202n Mary, Princess of Orange 2, 32 Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, Duchess of 103 Menander 88 Mere, Sir Thomas 93 Milhous, Judith 132 Miller, Henry Knight 109 Milton, John xix, 55, 90 Modena, Mary of 147, 151 Mohun, Michael 65 Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of 12, 116, 132 Montaigne, Michel de 96, 97 Moore, John F 88 Morris, Betty 73, 101 Mountague, Ralph 145, 158 Mulgrave, John Sheffield, Earl of xvii, 8, 98, 111–22, 163 Murphy, John A 55 Nokes, James 73, 129, 139 Oldham, John xx, 151 Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of 155 Osborne, Thomas See Danby, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Otway, Thomas xviii, xx, 98 Ovid 8, 9, 32, 39, 60, 88, 112, 139, 200n Palmer, Barbara See Cleveland, Barbara Palmer née Villiers, Duchess of Parker, Samuel 140–1 Patrick, Simon 92 Paulson, Kristoffer F 90 Pepys, Samuel xx, 7, 87 Petronius 34 Pinto, Vivian de Sola Pliny the Younger 85 Pococke, Edward xx Pope, Alexander xxv Pordage, Samuel 57, 132 Porter, George 103, 154 255 Portsmouth, Duchess of See Kérouaille, Louise de, Duchess of Portsmouth Price, Henrietta Maria 87, 88, 148 Quaintance, Richard E 8, 71 Quarles, Francis 40, 90, 110 Régnier, Mathurin 151 Righter, Anne xviiin Robinson, Ken xxin Rochester, Anne Wilmot, Dowager Countess of xvii, xxiv, 110, 167, 173 Rochester, Elizabeth Malet, Countess of xviii, 131 Rochester, Henry Wilmot, Earl of xvii, Rogers, Pat 102 Ronsard, Pierre de 11 Rymer, Thomas xxi Sackville, Charles See Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of Saslow, Edward L 62 Savile, George See Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of Savile, Henry 138, 145, 147, 152 Scroope, Sir Carr xvii, 102, 106, 111, 122–9, 133, 163 Sedley, Sir Charles 100, 111, 151, 152, 157, 163 Settle, Elkanah xviii, 64, 98, 155 Shadwell, Thomas xviii, xix, 64, 65, 66, 72, 99, 100, 111, 129, 143, 151 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of 111, 163 Shakespeare, William 101, 111, 203n Sheffield, John See Mulgrave, John Sheffield, Earl of Sheldon, Gilbert 134 Shepherd, Sir Fleetwood 102 Sherburne, Edward 57 Shirley, James 65 Sibbes, Richard 92 Sprague, Arthur Colby 163n, 165n St Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of 78, 125, 145, 146 256 Index of Proper Names St André 65 St John, Sir Walter 92 Sternhold, Thomas and Hopkins, John 137, 144 Stillingfleet, Edward xx, 90, 92, 97 Suckling, Sir John 34, 154 Sutton, Sir Edward 82 Thormählen, Marianne 50, 74, 92, 97, 153, 156 Tonson, Jacob xxi, xxvi, 48 Treglown, Jeremy 6, 8, 28, 41, 43, 54, 55, 94, 144, 159 Trotter, David 97 Turner, William 99 Valentinian III, Emperor of Rome 163 Vieth, David M xxi, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, 3, 21, 31, 106, 112, 117, 119, 122, 128, 133, 134, 135 Villiers, Barbara See Cleveland, Barbara Palmer née Villiers, Duchess of Villiers, George See Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of Vincent, Nathanael 90 Virgil 37 Walker, Keith xxiv, xxv, 145 Waller, Edmund xx, xxvi, 43, 81, 95, 99, 100, 115 Weinbrot, Howard D 102 Wharton, Anne xxiv, 30 Whitehall, Robert Williamson, Sir Joseph 151 Willis, Sue 43 Wilmot, Lord Henry See Rochester, Henry Wilmot, Earl of Wilson, John Harold 102, 106, 116, 149, 159, 163n, 164 Wolseley, Robert xix, 76, 158, 163–4, 167 Wood, Anthony xx, Wycherley, William 81, 99 York, James Duke of 78, 86, 111, 132, 145, 151, 159 Index of Titles and First Lines Titles in italics; first lines in roman ‘Song’ is not listed as a title A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne A Health to Kate A Letter from Artemiza in the Towne to Chloe in the Countrey A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Strephon A Ramble in Saint James’s Parke A Satyre against Reason and Mankind A very Heroicall Epistle In answer to Ephelia A Young Lady to her Antient Lover Absent from thee I languish still After Death nothing is, and nothing Death Against the Charms our B—llox have All my past Life is mine no more All things submit themselves to your Command An Age in her Embraces pas’d [An Allusion to Tacitus] An Allusion to Horace 10 Sat: 1st Book An Epistolary Essay from M: G: to O: B: An Essay on Satyr (extract) [Mulgrave & Dryden] Ancient person for whome I And after singing psalme the 12th Another Song In Imitation of Sir John Eaton’s Songs Answer by way of Epigram [Scroope] Answer to a Paper of Verses As Charms are Nonsence, Nonsence seems a Charm As Chloris full of harmless thought As some brave Admiral, in former War Att five this Morn: when Phœbus rais’d his head Att Last you’l force mee to confess 15 133 68 12 81 88 114 51 52 56 43 28 49 157 97 119 118 51 131 18 127 135 64 20 79 138 18 258 Index of Titles and First Lines Bursting with pride the loath’d Impostume swel’s By all Loves soft, yet mighty powers Cælia, that faithfull Servant you disown Chloe, in Verse by your commande I write Could I but make my wishes insolent Crusht by that just contempt his Follys bring Deare friend I hear this Towne does soe abound Dialogue [‘Injurious charmer of my Vanquish’d heart’] Dialogue L: R [‘When to the King I bid good Morrow’] Ephelia to Bajazet [Etherege] Epigram upon my Lord All-pride Epilogue [‘As Charms are Nonsence, Nonsence seems a charm’] Fair Cloris in a Piggsty lay Fall, The Fling this useless Book away Give me leave to Raile at you God bless our good and gracious King Greate Mother of Eneas and of Love Her Father gave her Dildoes six Here’s Lauderdale the pretty How Bles’d was the created state How farre are they deceiv’d who hope in vaine [Etherege] How happy Chloris, were they free How perfect Cloris, and how free I am by fate Slave to your will I could Love thee till I dye I Fuck no more then others doe I John Roberts writ This same Impia blasphemi sileant convitia vulgi [Impromptu on Queen Catherine] In defence of Satyr [Scroope] In the Isle of Brittain long since famous growne Injurious Charmer of my Vanquish’d heart Insulting Beauty, you mispend Lampoone [‘Too longe the Wise Commons have been in debate’] Leave this gawdy guilded Stage Lett [‘Madam I cannot chang as others doe’—Scroope] [Letter from Mistress Price to Lord Chesterfield] Lord Rochester upon hearing the Singing in a Country Church Love a Woman! Th’rt an Ass Love and Life Love bad me hope and I obey’d Love to a Woman Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian Madam, I cannot chang as others doe 116 44 68 32 129 119 45 103 112 116 64 39 38 159 29 135 58 133 132 38 112 21 24 131 33 128 136 133 122 86 45 47 76 54 127 87 137 37 28 35 37 162 127 Index of Titles and First Lines Madam, If you’re deceived, it is not by my cheat Mistress Knights Advice to the Dutchess of Cleavland in Distress for a Prick Much wine had past with grave discourse My dear Mistress hath an heart My Lord, These are the Gloves that I did mention Naked she lay clasp’d in my longing Armes Nestor Nothing adds to your fond fire [Elizabeth, Countess of Rochester] Nothing, thou Elder brother unto shade O! all yee young Ladyes of merry England Observacions on Tunbridge Wells Of Marriage Oh! Love how cold and slow to take my part [On King Charles] [On Louis XIV] On Mrs W—llis On Poet Ninny [On Samuel Pordage] [On the Court] On the supposed Author of a late Poem in defence of Satyr Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion Phillis be gentler I advize Poet whoe’re thou art, God damn Thee Prethy now fond foole give o’re Quoth the Dutchess of Cleavland to Counciller Knight Raile on poore feeble scribler! Speake of mee Respite great Queen your just and hasty fears Rochester extempore Rochester I despise for his meere want of Witt [Mulgrave & Dryden] Sab: Lost Satyr [‘In the Isle of Brittain long since famous growne’] [Seigneur Dildoe] Seneca’s Troas Act Chorus Shee yeilds, she yeilds, Pale Envy said Amen Some few from Wit have this true Maxime got Son of a Whore, God damn you, can you tell Song by Severall Hands [‘Give me leave to Raile at you’] Songe of the Earle of Rochesters [‘Tell mee noe more of Constancy’] Sternhold and Hopkins had such qualms Strephon, there sighs not on the Plain Such perfect Blisse faire Chloris, wee Tell mee noe more of Constancy The Advice The Disabled Debauchee The Discovery 259 114 77 81 46 87 11 29 106 145 138 78 59 135 136 43 129 132 132 126 78 40 132 15 77 127 131 118 55 86 145 56 55 67 104 29 27 137 12 25 27 79 260 Index of Titles and First Lines The Epilogue [‘Some few from Wit have this true Maxime got’] The Fall The freeborn English Generous and wise The Gods, by right of Nature, must possess The Imperfect Enjoyment The Platonick Lady The second Prologue at Court [‘Wit has of late took up a trick t’appear’] The utmost Grace the Greeks cou’d show Timon A Satyr Tis not that I am weary grown To A Lady, in A Letter To Corinna To forme a Plott To Her Sacred Majesty the Queen Mother To his more than Meritorious Wife To His Sacred Majesty [To Lady Rochester] To Love To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain To this moment a Rebell I throw down my arms Too late, alas! I must confess Too longe the Wise Commons have been in debate [Translations of Lucretius] T’was a dispute ’twixt heav’n and Earth Under King Charles IIs Picture Upon Betty Frazer Upon his leaving his Mistress Upon Nothing [Verses put into a Lady’s Prayer-book] Verses to the Post Boy Vertues triumphant Shrine! who do’st engage Vulcan contrive me such a Cupp Well Sir ’tis granted, I said Dryden’s Rhymes Were I who to my cost already am What Cruel pains Corrinna takes What strange Surprise to meet such Words as these? What, Timon, does old Age, begin t’approach What vaine unnecessary things are men When Shakespeare, Johnson, Fletcher, rul’d the Stage [Scroope] When to the King I bid good Morrow While on these lovely looks I gaze Wit has of late took up a trick t’appear Womans Honour You Loraine stole; by fraud you gott Burgundy Your Husband tight 67 38 157 57 33 63 48 151 42 25 34 134 131 137 59 126 31 18 76 57,58 53 136 133 42 106 159 104 11 97 88 34 135 151 61 122 103 19 63 35 136 137 ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester : the poems, and Lucina’s rape / edited by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher. .. Lewalski JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER THE POEMS AND LUCINA’S RAPE EDITED BY KEITH WALKER and NICHOLAS FISHER A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2010 © 2010 Keith. .. of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and other Restoration Authors, ed Bror Danielsson and David M Vieth (Stockholm, 1967) The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed David